Elizabeth was born to John Lewis by his wife Mary Garner. Her date of birth is not known, only that her parents married in 1683. She is proven to have been a child of these parents by the will of her mother dated 21st December 1724, wherein her spouse, then deceased, and her apparent youngest son, Lewis Toone, were named.
She was wife to Mark Toone, son of James Toone and Anne Duncombe, proven by the will of her mother Mary, who last married to Richard Price, which named her son-in-law Mark Toon and grandson Lewis Toon.
Mary' Prices will was dated 21 December 1724 and presented for probate at Northumberland Court 20 April 1726.[1]
In the Name of God Amen I Mary Price of the Parish of St. Stephens in the County of Northumberland, Widow being at present in sound & perfect health & reasonable understanding do make & ordain this this to be my Last will & Testament in manner & form following hereby revoking & making voyd all former wills & Testaments by me made Dated this twenty first Day of December Anno Domini one thousand seven hundered & twenty four and in the Eleventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George in Great Britain & c.
Item I give & bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it me hoping by his infinite Mercy & by my dear Saviour Jesus Christ his intercession & by the merrits of his passion it shall at the Last day be reunited with my body & Glorified & I will that my body have Christian & decent buriall
Item I will that my just Debts be truly paid & as for my Goods & Estate which it hath pleased my Good God to bless me beyond any deserts of mine I give & bequeath them in the following manner
Item I give & bequeath unto my Son John Lewis one warming pan which was his fathers to be in full of his part of my whole Estate for that it has pleased God to bless him with a plentifull Estate
Item I give & bequeath to my Son James Lewis one feather bed & furniture o be paid him immediately after my decease by my Ext'r out of my Estate
Item I give & bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Ann Lewis, daughter of my Son Wm Lewis Dec'd my Largest Gold ring & Silver bodkin to be p'd immediately after my decease
Item I give & bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of my s'd Son William my next Largest Gold ring to be delivered as above
Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandson Vincent Lewis son of Wm Lewis Dec'd one Ewe & lamb to be delivered as above
Item I give & bequeath to my Grandson Pemberton Clayton one heiffer to be delivered to him immediately after my decease by my Ext'r
Item I give & bequeath to my Grand Daughter Mary Damerill daughter of Joseph Damerill my Son in Law all my wearing apparell to be delivered as within mentioned
Item I give & bequeath to my Grandson Lewis Toon son of my Son in Law Mark Toon Dec'd five thousand pounds of tobo to be paid him when he shall attain the age of twenty one years by my Ext'r
Item I give & bequeath to my Son Arjalon Price son of Richard Price Dec'd one Negro woman named Betty & her increase for ever
Item I give & bequeath unto my s'd Son Arjalon Price all & singular the rest Residue & remainder of my Estate of what nature kind or quality soever to him & his heirs for Ever & I do hereby Nominate & appoint him to be my full & whole Ext'r of this my Last will & Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed my seale the day & year within written
Sealed published & declared to
be her Last will & Testament
in presence of
George Boutt
Martha Boutt
William Boutt
Die Aprillis 20: 1726 this will was proved in Northumberland County Court to be the Last will & Testament of Mary Price Dec'd by the oaths of George Boutt Martha Boutt & Willaim Boutt witnesses thereto & is admited to be Recorded
At a Court held for Northumberland County on the 8th of 8ber 1744 This Originall will of Mary Price Dec'd being found among the papers in the office of the afores'd County but not Recorded in the books was this day presented to the Court by Arjalon Price & on his motion the Same is to be Recorded & Certifyd
Elizabeth had apparently deceased prior to the 21st September 1717 date of Mark Tube's will, wherein she was not mentioned. He appointed friends, James and Barbary Tomson, to take his daughters Ann and Elizabeth under their governorship. His wished his eldest son John to reside on his plantation and raise his brothers in a Christian manner until they turned 18.
The will of Mark Tune named the following children by his marriage to Elizabeth:
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Documentation supporting Lewis-3769 is extensive.