Bath County NcArchives Wills.....Porter, Joshua 1734 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nola Duffy nduffy@patch.net February 6, 2009, 7:09 pm Source: Nc Wills & Inventories - Grimes Written: 1734 JOSHUA PORTER'S WILL. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, Joshua Porter, of Bath County, in ye Province of North Carolina, Esq., being of Sound & perfect mind & memory & Calling to mind ye Cer- tainty of Death, & not knowing when it may Please ye Lord to call me out of this Life. Revoking & by these presents make Void all former & other wills by me heretofore made, do now make, Constitute and Ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament, in Manner & Form following: Imprimis, I render my Soul to allmighty God; & my Body I Commit to ye Earth to be Buried in a Decent Manner. Item, I give ye Use & Occupation of all yt Tract of Land & Plantation whereon I now Live, lying on ye East Side of Derhams Creek in Bath County in ye Province afsd., Contain- ing by Estimation four hundred & Seventy five acres, be ye Same more or less, it being ye Lands yt I bought of Mr. Thomas Harding, Deceasd., with all & Singular ye Houses & Apperti- nance thereunto belonging, unto my Son, John Peyton Porter, & to ye heirs of his Body Lawfully begotten; & for default of Such Issue, I Give ye use & Occupation of ye afsd. Land & Plantation unto my Daughter, Elizabeth Porter, & to ye heirs of her Body Lawfully begotten; & for default of Such Issue, I give ye use & Occupation of ye afsd. Land & plantation unto my Cousin, John Fry, & to his heirs of his Body Lawfully begotten; & for default of Such Issue, I give ye use & Occupa- tion of ye afsd. Land & Plantation, unto my Cousin, Anne Lillington, & to ye hears of her Body Lawfully begotten. Item, I give unto my Daughter, Elizabeth Porter, One Thousand Acres of Land lying on ye South Side of Deshams Creek, Joying on ye upper Side of Majr. Robert Turners Lands, & Commonly goes by ye Name of ye Sand Hills, to her & her heirs for Ever. Item, I give ye Use & Service of three Slaves unto my Sd. Daughter, Eliza. Porter, to ye heirs of her Body, Vizt: Patt, Jane, & Simon, I allso give unto my Said Daughter ye first Slave Child yt shall be born in my family after my Decease; but my Will is yt if my Said Daughter should Dye without Issue, yt then I give ye Use & Service of ye Sd. Slaves unto my Son, John Payton. Porter, & to ye heirs of his Body Law- fully begotten. Item, I give my Said Daughter, Elizabeth Porter, fifteen Cows & Calves, & ye Sum of One hundred & fifty Pound, Currant Money of this Province, to be paid her at ye Day of Marriage or when she arrives to ye age of Twenty One Years, which shall first happen. Item, I give ye Use & Service of One third Part of my Person- al Estate unto my beloved Wife, Dorothy Porter, for & dureing her Natural Life & after my Said Wifes Decease, it is my Will & pleasure yt ye afsd. third part of my Estate may be Equally Devided between my Son, John Payton Porter, & my Daughter, Elizabeth Porter, to them & their heirs for Ever. Item, I give ye Use & Service of all ye rest of my Moveable Estate not herein before given, be it of what kind So Ever, as Negros, Musters, or Indians, & their Increase, unto my Son, John Peyton Porter, & to ye heirs of his Body Lawfully Be- gotten; & for Default of Such Issue, I give ye Use & Service of ye afsd. Moveable unto my Daughter, Eliza. Porter, & to ye heirs of her Body Lawfully begotten; & for default Such Issue, I give ye afsd. Moveable Estate & Slaves unto my Cusin, John Fry, & to ye heirs of his Body Lawfully begotten; & for default of such Issue I give ye afsd. Moveable Estate & Slaves unto my Cousin, Eliza. Fry, & to ye heirs of her body Lawfully begotten; & for Default of Such Issue I give ye afsd. Moveable Estate to my Cousin, Anne Lillington, & to ye heirs of her Body for Ever. Item, I give unto my Loving friend Philip Cremer, Ten pound, to Buy him a Mourning Ring. Item, I give unto my God Son, William Trippe, Ten pound for ye like use. Item, it is my Will & Desire yt none of my Slaves be re- moved from my Said Plantation, but yt they be put Under a Carefull Overseer, & kept to work in Order to raise Money to Discharge my Just Debts & Legacies, & it is my further Will & desire yt my Execs. hereafter named see yt my Son & Daughter may be Carefully learnt to read & write & to Cypher, & yt they may be duly Educated, & yt a Sufficient Sum of Money may be raised out of my Estate by me Execs. in Order for my Said Son & Daughters Education as afsd., Item, I do nominate & appoint, yt my Loving Brother, Edmund Porter, & my two Brother in Law, Messrs. Patrock Maule & Seth Pilkington, & my Trusty & Loving friends, Colonel Edward Moseley & Capt. John Trippe, to be Joynt Executors of this my Last Will & Testement. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this Seventeenth Day of January, One Thousand, Seven hundred & thirty three. JOSHUA PORTER. (Seal) Signed, Sealed & Published in Ye Presence of: CHURCHILL READING. JOHN CALOOM. WILLIAM WHITFORD. No. CAROLINA, Sc. These may Certifie that William Whitford, one of ye Subscribing Evidence to this will, Appeared before us & proved ye Same in due form of Law, Septr. ye 14th., 1734. GEO. BURRINGTON. Recorded in Will Book 3, page 329. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bath/wills/porter870wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 5.8 Kb