Sarah Barker (Barker could be previous married name.  Maiden name unknown.)
Born: 1706, Maryland
Died: 10 Aug 1766, VA
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Married: Richard Simpson Born: 1691, Maryland  Died: 21 Dec 1762, VA (1768?)

Our chld:
George Simpson Born: 1727, Fairfax, VA  Died: 1782, Fairfax, VA

From Joyce Hetrick Book

SARAH “Barker” SIMPSON also wrote a will, and it was probated in 1766 in Fairfax. SARAH had one son from her previous marriage, William Barker. Her will gave her son, Moses Simpson-3, a gold ring, and if he died without heirs, that ring was to go to Sarah Simpson-4, daughter of GEORGE-3. SARAH also left to granddaughter, Sarah Halley-4, the wife of William Wilkinson, a gold ring with the first two letters of her name engraved in it. Sarah Windsor and Sarah Simpson-4, the daughter of Richard Simpson, Jr.-3, each received a ring. She directed that her wearing apparel be equally divided between three granddaughters, with Elizabeth Halley getting first pick. She left GEORGE-3, Moses-3, and Richard-3 one shilling sterling each. To William Barker, “My well beloved son ... all and every part of my estate except those legacies above mentioned.” William Barker was the executor. The will was signed May, 1764. For whatever reason, RICHARD SIMPSON-2 had failed to mention his step-son, William Barker, in his will at all. SARAH apparently made up to some extent for this slight or oversight of her firstborn. [Fairfax Will Book B, page 418.]

What exactly it was that SARAH owned in fee simple which she could will to her son, William Barker, is unknown. She would have had a dower in her husband’s real property, [a life estate in one-third of it] but she couldn’t have willed that portion of the estate as it reverted to her husband’s heirs upon her death. If she had inherited lands, slaves, or other goods from her own family, she might have owned that property in fee simple, and thus have been able to will it to whom she pleased. She may also have received part of the personal estate of either her former husband or of RICHARD in fee simple and willed that. Virginia was one state in which the widow [at certain times] received part of the personal estate of her husband in fee simple as part of her dower.


Read more about Sarah Barker in the Bio for Richard Simpson