WILL OF WILLIAM LAKE,JR.                                       
HARRISON COUNTY,Will Book 4--page 123
                           
In the name of God,Ame-
I, William Lake, Sr. of Harrison County and State of  West Virginia do make, ordain and 
declare this instrument to be my last Will and Testament revoking all others.  In the first place as to debts,
thank God, I owe none and therefore shall give my executors but little trouble on that score.
Secondly: as to such worldly estate where it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give and Bequeath in the manner  and form following:

To my son,William Lake I give and bequeath one dollar.  Likewise I give to Elizabeth Michael, formerly my 
son Vincent's wife, one dollar.  Also I give and bequeath to Taylor Barton,my son-in-law, one dollar. 
Item: I give and bequeath all of my planation and all the rest and all the rest of my of my property 
to be divided into ten shares of which I give and bequeath to my son George Lake one share 
and I give to my son Nimrod Lake one share also, and to my son, Ila one share.

Likewise I give to my son William Lake's children and wife one share and to my son Jeremiah Lake 
one share, also to my son Vincent's children one shareand to my Daughter Aggy Barton's 
children one share,and to my daughter Susana Norris one share,also to my daughter Mary Cross,
One share,and to my daughter Jinny Neel, one share.

Lastly,I constitute and appoint my sons,George Lake and Nimrod Lake executors of this my last will and testament.
I witness of all and each of these the things herein contained.  I have set my hand and seal 22nd day 
of March in our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty five.

John Linn                                                        William Lake
Samuel Linn
Robert Henderson                                               December 18th,1826
                                                           
 

                              Harrison County Will Book 4--Page 93
                                                Janary 6,1827
 
 

William Lake was the brother of John and Vincent Lake who lived near Warrenton, Virginia, 
moving there about 1754 from St. Marys County, Maryland.  William moved to Taylor County at 
Webster and Traps Spring, (West) Virginia in 1799. 
William appears in Virginia personal tax record in 1782.
( See Virginia State Library Archives Division, Richmond, Virginia. )
 

Harrison County (WV) Deed Book 21 - Page 310         
Vincent Lake to William Lake 
 

Harrison County (WV) 
Deed Book 5 - Page 28 

            This indenture made this ___ day of _____ in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and one between Vincent Lake and Elizabeth of the County of Harrison and State of Virginia of
the one part and William Lake of the County and State aforesaid of the other part. 

            Witnesseth that they the said Vincent Lake and Elizabeth his wife for and in 
consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars current money to them in hand paid the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed and confirmed 
and by these presents doth grant, bargain sell, alien, enfeoff and confirm unto the said 
William Lake a certain tract or parcel of land in the County and state aforesaid, situate on 
Berkleys Run, a drain of Tygerts Valley River,being part of a survey of four hundred acres 
conveyed to said Vincent Lake by Isaac Davisson the seventeenth day of July in the year 
seventeen hundred and ninety seven and bounded as follows to wit: 

            Beginning at a white walnut and hickory on a line of the original survey,then by
said line south forty degrees west one hundred and twenty three poles to a white oak,thence 
along the said original line south ___ degrees east two hundred and thirty poles to a white 
oak, north forty three degrees east one hundred and sixty seven poles to white walnut, north 
five degrees west fifty poles to two white oaks, thence leaving said original lines south 
eighty and one fourth degrees west ninety six poles to a hickory, north forty degrees west 
one hundred and fifty two poles to the beginning containing two hundred acres.... 
                                                
                                                Vincent Lake 
                                                Elizabeth Lake