Anson County NcArchives Wills.....Hough, Richard 1754
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Source: Personal
Written: 1754

Richard Hough’s Will, 1754

In the name of God Amen
The ninth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred 
& fifty four.

I RICHARD HOUGH of Anson Coiunty in North Carolina Planter being sick of weak 
in body But of Perfect mind & Memory Thanks be given unto God Therefor 
(unreadable) to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed 
for all men once to Dye do make and ordane this my Last Will & Testamint that 
is to say Principally and first of all I give & recommend my soul unto the 
Hands of God that gave it & for my Body I recommend it to the Earth to be 
buried in a Christian like & Deaceant manner at the Diseretion of any Executor 
Doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the 
mighty Power of God & as Touching such lordley estate where with it hath 
Pleased God to Bless me in this lfe I give (unreadable) & dispose of the same 
in the following manner & form (unreadable) it is my will & I order that in 
the first place all my just debts & funeral charges payed & satisfied.

ITEM:
I give to my bseloved wife MARTHA HOUGH one half of my cows & dry Cattle & one 
hundred pounds Pensylvanis money (unreadable) saddel & one feather bed & 
furnitlure stove.
I leave to my well beloved son WILLIAM HOUGH my dwelling Plantation & three 
hundred acres of land belonging to the said Plantation been part of the track 
& my waggon & furniture & four Horses manchen of latter & buck L& Knight& 
Black Jack & one half of the women tools on the Purnorrs Plantation except one 
Bar of PlowTines them I leave to my beloved son THOMAS HOUGH one hundred 
Pounds Pensylivania money when it come due in Pensylivania & one set of Plow 
Einirs Item I leave to my beloved daughter HANNAH CROALEBE one hundred & fifty 
pounds Pensyilvania money. Item I leave to my beloved daughter ELIZABETH 
SHARPE five pounds Pensilvania money. Item I leave to my beloved daughter in 
Law LETHEY STALL five pounds Pensilvanis money Item I leave to my beloved son 
RICHARD HOUGH three hundred acres of land belonging to the tract before 
mentione adjoining the ford of Broad river & two hundred pounds Pensilvinia 
money to be payed to him all Items that I leave (unreadable) wife MARTHA HOUGH 
& my beloved son WM HOUGH executore of this my Last will and testament and 
what money & creatures remains of paying this several sum before mentioned to 
fall to my son WM HOUGH & my wife MARATHA to have the use of the (unreadable) 
during her life & to fall to my son WM HOUGH after I do Ratifing if & 
confirming this and an nother to be my last will & Testament in witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the Day & year above written.
RICH’S HOUGH
seal
Signed Sealed Published
his x mark
Pronounced & Declared
by the said RICHARD HOUGH as his last
will & Testament in the presence
of us the subercribers
LAINES LOVE
GABREL BROWN

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