BERTIE COUNTY NC Will: Michael King, 1741 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Bruce Clift http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie/wills/king1741.txt ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** NC State Archives, Secretary of State Original Wills, 1663-1789, SS.849 In the Name of God Amen. I Michael King of North Carolina in Bartie County being very sick of body but in Perfect mind & Memory praise be therefore Given to Allmighty God do make & ordain this my presant Last will & Testament in manner & form following, (that is to say) First & Principally, I Commend my soul into the hands of Allmighty God, hoping that through the merrits Death & passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ, to have full & free pardon & forgiveness of all my sins, & to Inherit Everlasting Life & my body I Commit to the Earth to be Decently Buried at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named; & as -oucking all such Temporal Estate as it hath pleased Allmighty God to bestow upon me I Give & Dispose thereof as Followeth. Item. I give bequeath unto my Loving Wife Isbell King five Negroes Viz; hary Tower hill bes hannah & murrear? for her Life further more I give & bequeath unto my Loving wife one bed & Furniture, & two horses Namely prince & ball & a Sidesaddle, my Cattle & Sheep to be Equally Divided amongst them & as for my hogs I give & bequeath to Each of my Children three sows & pigs when they Come of age & the remainder of the hogs to my wife. I Furthermore give unto my Loving wife one Gold ring During her life & after her Death to my son Michaell King. Item: I Give & bequeath unto my Loving Son Michaell King two Negroes Viz; Green & Isbell & their Increas & an Equal part of the moveable Estate, Likewise one mare & a new Tradeing Gun. Furthermore I give & bequeath unto my Loving Son Michael one tract or parcel of Land Containing by Estimation Two Hundred & Fifty Acres it being a peice of Land that I bought of Richard byrd. Item: I give & bequeath unto my Loving Son Henry King Two Negroes Viz; Robin & Pegg & his part of all the Moveable Estate & one Mare & a Tradeing Gun, & my mannor Plantation & Land adjouning to in all Containing Two hundred & Twenty Five Acres. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Loving son John King Three Negroes Viz Jack Taffey & Frank them & their Increas for Ever, & his Equal part of the Moveable Estate & a Young horse to my Loving son John Called Sterling. Item. I Give to my Loving Daughter Catherine King one Negroe Girl Called or Named pat & her part of the Moveable Estate. Item: I Give & bequeath to my Loving Daughter Isbell King one Negroe Girl Called Sary & her part of the moveable Estate. Item: I Give & bequeath to my Loving Daughter Penelope King one Negroe girl Called Vilet & if so bes the dies of the Sickness she dies with that she shall have the child that bes is now with Child with, & her part of the moveables; Item: I give & bequeath to my Daughter Mary King one negroe girl called Pressilla & her part of the moveables; the five negroes that I give unto my Loving wife after her Death to be Equally Divided among my Children & their Increase. I do make & ordain my Loving wife & Coll Robt. west & his son Robt. West my True & Lawfull Exts. of this my Last will & testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 20 day of may 1741. Test: Roger Snell Jno. Hill J. Hollbrook Michael King (seal) Michael King's Will Letters pd. appril 3d. 1742 R---- October 29th 1741 John Hill one of the subscribeing Evidences to the within Will this day appeared before me & on the holy evangelists made oathe that he saw the within Testator Michael King sign seal & publish the within Writeing at his last will & Testament & that he the sd. Michael was then of sound & disposeing mind & memory. J. Montgomery ---