Bath County, NC - Will & Estates

                      PATRICK MAULE’S WILL

NORTH CAROLINA Beaford Precinct

  IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, Patrick Maule, of Bath County, Gent., 
being in my Right Senses do make this my last will & testament, in manner & 
form following:

  I give to my loving wife, Elizabeth Maule, & to her Assigns for Ever, 
the following Negroes, Vizt: Angus, Hannah, Affrica, Robin, & London, to be 
delivered after the tar kilns are off & the Crop finished; also, I give unto 
her the housbold furniture, Except the Eating Spoon & five Silver teaspoons. I 
give to my wife aforesd., fifteen cows, their calves, ten four year old 
Steers, & two third parts of the hogs on my Plantation at Rumney Marsh, also 
the young horse, the foregoing to be delivered after my Interment. And 
further, I leave my Plantation at Rumney Marsh to my wife during her Natural 
Life, with a dwelling house to be built for her by my Executors, twenty foot 
long & Sixteen foot wide; Also, I give unto my sd. wife full priviledge for 
making tar & Turpintine of my land on Jacks Creek during her Natural Life.

  I give & bequeath to my Son, John Maule, his heirs & assigns forever, 
the following Slaves, Vizt: Cazar, Farewell, Bina, Tom Richards, Young Hannah. 
I give & bequeath to my Son, John aforesd., my Lands at Smiths point, also my 
lands at Blunts Creek, also my Saved lot in Bath town, all to him & to his 
heirs forever. Also, I give & bequeath to my Son, John aforeed., two hundred 
Acres of Land Adjacent to Roger Kenyons Plantation, to him & his heirs for 
Ever. I give to my son John, fifteen cows, their calves, at Blunts Creek, with 
their Increase.

  I give to my daughter, Sarah Maule, the following Slaves
Vizt:	Elleck, great Tom, Peg, Andrew, & Kope; Also I give & bequeath to my 
daughter aforesd. & to her heirs for Ever, my Land at Tranters Creek, also 
fifteen Cows & Calves with their Increase.

  I give & bequeath to my daughter, Barbara Maule, the following Slaves 
Vizt: Chancellor, Jenny Bess & Nanny; Also, I give & bequeath unto my sd 
daughter my land on Matchapunga Swamp, as also, I give my sd. daughter, my 
plantation at Rumney Marsh; also fifteen Cows & Calves with their Increase, 
the lands aforesd. I give to her & her heirs for Ever.

  I give & bequeath to my daughter, Mary Maule the following Slaves, 
Vizt: Hector, Sue, Mustapha, & Dick; also, I give to my sd. daughter, Mary, & 
her heirs for Ever my Lands on North Dividing Creeks; also my Lands on Jacks 
Creek, also I give her fifteen Cows & Calves with their Increase.

  And as to Lands or any other goods or Chattles not allready disposed 
of, I will it, or they, be Equally devided among my Said Children, and as to 
the Legacies & fortunes aforesd. they are all payable at the day of Marriage 
or age of twenty one years; Also, If any young Negroes shall be born, they 
shall be Equally divided among the Children aforesd. And I further will, that 
after the marriage of sd. Children they shall not be Entitled to any Increase 
of Slaves hapening by births of Negroes belonging to the other Children, 
Except in Case of Mortallity.

  And I further will, that if any of the Children aforeed. dye before 
Marriage or Age of twenty one years, I then will that their fortuns be Equally 
divided Among the Surviving Children.

  I will that my loving Cusens, John Gray & William Gray, be Guardians 
of my Children during their Minority, & have them Carefully Educated to best 
Advantage.

  Lastly, I nominate & Appoint my beloved Friends, Mr. John Gray, Mr. 
William Gray, Mr. John Caldom & Mr. Robert Boyd, to be my Executors of this my 
last will & testament, & I hereby revoke all former wills by me made.

  In witness whereof, I have hereunto put my hand & Seal, this Ninteenth 
day of April, one thousand, Seven hundred & thirty Six.

                                      Pat. Maule {Seal}

Signd, Seal’d, Publish’d, &
Declared in Presence of:
Bart. Fleming.
         her
Elizabeth E Montgomery
        mark
Nehemiah Monk.

  The Last Will and Testament of Patt. Maule, Deceased, was proved in 
Open Court, by the Oaths of Barnabas Fleming & Nehemiah Monk, Two of the 
Subscribing Evidences thereto. Ordered yt. Mr. Secretary have Notice Thereof.

  Robt. Boyd, one of the Exors. therein mentioned having taken the Oath 
by Law Appointed.
                                      Test. Jno. Collison Cler. Cur.
Lts. issued June, 1736.

Copied from the Original Will, filed in the Office of the Secretary of 
State.

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