Gorby, Thomas

Summary of Thomas GORBY - 8 May 2010
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Name: Thomas GORBY
Sex: Male
Father: Samuel GORBY (abt 1700 - )
Mother: Mary MAY (abt 1700 - )

Individual Facts
Birth abt 1730 Chester Co., PA
Death bef 24 Mar 1814 (age 84) Ohio Co., VA

Marriages/Children
1. Elisabeth ALLMAN
Marriage 1759 (age 29) Chester Co., PA
Children
... Job GORBY (bet 1760 and 1770 - 1841)
... Rebecca GORBY (1772 - )
... Unknown GORBY (1775 - )
... Eli GORBY (1777 - 8 Jun 1831)
... Thomas Jeahue GORBY (abt 1779/80 - 1856)
... Hannah Etta GORBY (1782 - 3 Jan 1868)
... Ebenezer GORBY (1784 - 22 Dec 1852)
... Jesse GORBY (1789 - bef 1860)
... John G. GORBY (25 May 1792 - )

Notes (Individual)
General:
Thomas Gorby

RESIDENCES-MILITARY: Thomas Gorby served in the Revolutionary War, residing in Westmoreland County, PA and East Findly Township of Washington Co., PA. He served as a private in Captain Stokely's Company of Frontier Rangers of Westmoreland County. Later he lived in Ohio Co., VA where his will was probated in 1814.

He is listed in the Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Index.

He had land in Washington Co., PA. He is listed in Warranties of Land in the County of Washington, PA 1784-1892, as having 200 acres surveyed March 24, 1877. (Source: The Parsons-Yoho Families and Allied Lines, Eloyce (Parsons) Trader, 1990. p. 14)


PROBATE:
WILL of THOMAS GORBY
Ohio County Record of Wills Book 2, page 71, 24 Mar 1814

In the name of God, amen. I. Thomas Gorby of Ohio County, state of Virginia, being weak and low in body but of perfect mind and memory, Thanks be given unto God, calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, to make and ordain this to be my last will and testament, that is, to principally the first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almightly God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executor, nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate where-with it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise, and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

First, I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Elizabeth all the household and kitchen furniture, one gray mare, three heifers, fifteen bushels of wheat, ten bushels of corn, thirty weight of sugar, four of buckwheat, and a comfortable fireplace and firewood, and a fire kept as she may want, and one hundred weight of pork each year annually during her life.

And to my beloved daughter Rebecca Ellit Twenty-five Dollars, and my beloved daughter Faithful Clark Two Dollars, and my beloved daughter Hannah Parsons Twentyfive Dollars, and my beloved son Job Gorby Two Dollars, and to by beloved son Eli Gorby Seventy-five Dollars, and my beloved son Jeahue Gorby Seventy-five Dollars, and my Beloved son Ebenezer Gorby Seventy-five Dollars, and my beloved son Jesse Gorby Seventy-five Dollars. And my executors have two years after the last payment comes due from Joseph Simmons to pay all the above mentioned sums to my legatees.

And my beloved son John Gorby is to have the mill and plantation I now live on, that I bought from Joseph Seals, and One Hundred Dollars to build the mill anew.

And I do appoint my beloved son John Gorby and Samuel Howard my executors and to settle all my business, and I do hereby disallow, revoke, and disannul all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies bequeathed, and executores by me in any wise before named, willed, and bequeathed, --ratifying and confirming this to be my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 24th day of March, One Thousand eight Hundred and Fourteen

His
Thomas X Gorby
Mark

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the said Thomas Gorby as his last will and testament in the presence of us, who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names.

Samuel Howard
John Carmikle
Isaac Briggs

Submitted by: Joel Desmond Gorby
Joel Desmond Gorby is the son of John Robert Gorby, son of William James Gorby, son of David Gorby, son of Daniel Gorby, son of Ebenezer Gorby, son of Thomas Gorby, son of Samuel Gorby.

This is a copy from page 42 of "The Gorby Family" book, original 1936 edition --with misspellings. (Found on the Marshall Co., WV Website)