Will of Samuel Ford Dated 12 July 1820
Amelia County, Virginia Will Book No. 10 Page 260

...give the land whereon I now live to my sons Christopher and Edward M. Ford, including the lands which I purchased of estate of John Seay deceased...

... my wife Martha, who was formerly Martha Haskins ...

...And now the fee simple right having descended to our two children Samuel Haskins and Mary Jane Ford. It is my will and desire that I do hereby direct that the lands which I have given to my two sons Christopher and Edward M. Ford be valued by two or more persons....

... all the rest of my estate not heretofore devised I give to equally divided between my four children, Christopher Edward M, Samuel Haskins an Mary Jane. ... I desire that so far as equality in the division can be preserved that my son Samuel Haskins and my daughter Mary Jane shall have their allotted share of those which did belong to their mother and that my woman Molly and all her children be put in my daughter Mary Janes --

And lastly I appoint my sons Christopher , Edward M. and Samuel Haskins Ford executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking ---- twelfth day of July 1820. Signed Samuel Ford

Recorded August 26, 1824.