Ashe County NcArchives Wills.....Ward, Benjamin 1820
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Source: Ashe County, Nc Original Wills
Written: 1820

Will of Benjamin Ward

Ashe County, NC Original Wills, Benjamin Ward, 1820, State Archives of North 
Carolina, Raleigh, NC; Recorded Copy, Ashe County, NC Will Book A, pp. 20-21.

In the name of God Amen, I Benjamin Ward of the County of Ashe & State of North 
Carrolina being infirm in body but at the same time in my Senses and of Sound 
mind & memory (Blessed be God) I do hereby ordain & publish this my last will & 
testament in manner & form following, To wit.
First I give & bequeath unto my beloved wife Selah Ward sixty nine dollars of my 
money & all my standing & gethered bread grain unto her own proper use & behoof 
for ever.  then I give unto my said wife Selah all my negroes during her natural 
life tim[e] & also all my household furnature & Cloathing & Bedening, with every 
other article & implement of husbandry & farming utentials, after which then it 
is my desire that all my Negroes above mentioned named Jack, Esqire, Esther, 
Emilia & Nancy go to & I do hereby give & bequeath the said negroes unto my son 
Nicodemus Ward & his heirs for ever all & singular the aforsaid Negroes provid 
that the said Nicodemus Ward Shall pay to my son Kelly Ward and Daniel Ward, & my 
two daughters Selah Ward & Elizabeth Webb four hundred dollars Each. 
Furthermore it is my desire that & I do hereby give & bequeath unto my said wife 
Selah all my
live stock, horses, Cattle sheep hogs & poultry of every description, & also my 
Still with all my distilling utentials belong thereto with all my Books & other 
moveable & personal property of every description whatever, during her life time 
after which it is my desire that also go to my son Nicodemus provided that he pay 
as above menconed the aforesaid sixteen hundred dollars.
& lastly, I appoint my worthy Son Benjamin Ward & Bedent Baird Esqr the Executors 
of this my last will & testament.
In witness whereof I Benjamin Ward the Testator have hereunt[o] set my hand Seal 
this Eighteenth day of April & year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & 
twenty.
signed, sealed, published & declared in the presence of
Bedent Baird  Jurat			Benjamin (x) Ward
Cutlif (x) Harmon 
John Holsclaw  Jurat

[verso]

State of North Carolina 			August term 1820
Ashe County				
The with in will was duely proven in open Court By the oath of Bedant Bard & Jno 
Holsclaw and orderd to be registord.

                  			Thos Callawy Clk

Ben. Wards last
Will 
& testament

Recorded 

Transcribed by Mark Valsame, Raleigh, NC


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