ANSON COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Malachi Watts - 1802 ============================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Steve and Bobbie Ledbetter blsl@ij.net ============================================================== WILL OF MALACHI WATTS BOOK 2, PAGE 177/178 4 November 1802 In the name of God, Amen, I Malachi Watts of the County of Anson and State of North Carolina, being in a Low Estate of Health but of a Sound & perfect mind and Memory thanks be given to God for this Mercy Calling to mind the mortality of my Body, and touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to Bless me with in this life, I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form; first I desire that all my Just debts and funeral charges be paid at the discretion of my Executors, then I lend to my loving Wife Ann Watts during her life or Widowhood the land and plantation Whereon I now live, also one Negro Named Fortin, & one bay Mare Called Doll one feather bed and furniture, two Choice Cows & Calves five two year old hogs five Shoats, two Sows & pigs one pot pail & piggin, one Wheel one pair of Cards one Loom & Gear, one plow Hoe & one Grubbing Hoe, one Ax one Weeding Hoe twenty Barrels of Corn, ten bushels of Wheat, one Bedstead one table one Chest and four chairs & knives & forks, and a small parcel of pewter as much as is necessary, and no more of my Estate and at her death or marriage the sd property to be sold & the money arising from such sale to be Equally divided Amongst my Children hereafter Named, - I give to my Daughter Elizabeth Phillips the Land and plantation whereon she now lives Together with all the Rest of the property which I have lent her & one set of Black smith Tools & one Negro man Named Simon-, and one Corner of Land adjoining the plantation hereon she now lives, to a line of Markd. trees supposed to 12 1/2 Acres,- I give to my Daughter Francis Garriott the Land and plantation whereon she now lives Together with all the rest of the property which she has in possession & one negro man Named Joe,- I give to my daughter Ann Dabbs the land & plantation whereon She now lives Together with all the rest of the property which I have lent her, I give to my Daughter Polley Phillips the Land & plantation which Jacob Phillips had a right to from Stephen Jackson, Together with all the rest of the property which I have lent her, & one feather bed & furniture - I give to my Daughter Sarah Alsobrook the Brown Creek plantation Commonly called Smiths place Together with all the rest of the property which I have lent her I give to my Daughter Jemima Wood the Land and plantation whereon she now Lives it being the Lower part of my land on little Brown Creek running along the Dividing line Between my tims field place and the said plantation which she now lives on Running fore an aft a West course to the back line Including all my tracts or parcels of land below sd line Together with all the property which She has in possession My Will and Desire is that the Rest of my Estate not named heretofore Consisting of Lands Horses Cattle and all the Reaminder of my Estate not Mentioned shall be sold by my Executors and the money arising from such Sale to be Equally Divided between my Six Children Before named I Constitute and appoint Williamson plant and Abraham Rushing Senr. Executors of this my last Will & Testament and I hereby Disannul Revoke and disallow all other wills or Bequeaths by me in anywise mentioned ratifying and Confirmed this and no other to be my Last will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hands & seal This forth Day of November Eighteen Hundred and two- Signed Sealed published and Declared as Malachi Watts Last Will and testament in the presence of us his Malachi X Watts (SEAL) Test mark William Gulledge Thomas Gulledge State of North Carolina Anson County July Session 1804 Then the last will and Testament was admitted to Record and proved in Open Court by the oaths of William Gulledge and Thos. Gulledge witnesses thereto And ordered to be registered. Tod Robinson Clk Note from submitter: I would like to find out the name of his daughter, Anne Dabbs' husband.