Bertie  COUNTY  NC  Will of Jacob Parrott (1738) 

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Will of Jacob Parrott (1738) 


In the name of God Amen The third day of November in the
year of our Lord oe thousand seven hundred and thirty-
eight

I Jacob Parrot of Bertie precint in Albemarle County in
North Carolina planter being very sick and weak of body
but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to
almighty God  Therefore calling to mind the mortality of
my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once
to dye do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament
that is to say principally and first of all I give and
recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and
my  body I recommend to the Earth to be buryed in such
decent Christian manner as to my Executors shall be
thought meet nothing doubting but that at the general
resurrection I shall rceive the same again by the mighty
power of God and touching such worldly Estate wherewith
it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise
and dispose of the same in the following manner and form

Imprimis I give to Martha my dearlly beloved wife the
part of all my stock of cattle and horses and half my
hogs with all the household good and all my sheep
Excepting two Ews and Lambs for to be delivered Equally
to both my children  Mary and John Parrot to my daughter
at the years of Sixteen and to my son at the years of
Eighteen

Item I give to my daughter Mary Parrot one-third part of
my stock of both cattle and horses for to be delivered to
her or her heirs at the date of her being sixteen years
of age

Item I give to my son John Parrott one-third part of my
stock of both cattle and horses to be delivered to him or
his heirs at the date of his being Eighteen years of age

Item I give to both my Children to be Equally divided
between them both at the age above mentioned the other
half of my hogs after Martha my beloved wife has had her
share taken out

Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Mary
Parrot and to her heirs the Plantation and Land whereon I
do now live containing four hundred and fifty acres lying
in Bertie precinct and on the West Side of Cucklemakers
Creek Reserving a right of way to my well beloved wife
Martha Parrot

Item I give to my well beloved son John Parrot and his
heirs two hundrd acres of land lying in Bertie precinct
and upon the south side of Ducking Run

Lastly I do constitute appoint and ordain my well beloved
friends William Fleetwood and Edward Rasor my sole
Executors of of this my Last Will and Testament all
__?__ my land and ___?__ and tenements by them freely
possessed  and enjoyed to the benifit of both my children
Mary & John Parrot and I do hereby disallow revoke and
annull all and every other former testament, will,
legacies, and bequests and Executors by  me in any ways
before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and
confirming this and no other to be my last Will and
Testament in Witness Whereof I have herewith set my hand
and seal the day and year above writ Signed sealed
published pronounced and declared by the said Jacob
Parrot as his last Will and Testament in the presence of
us the subscribers


       Tests.
Jacob Parrot (his mark)


Lamb Hardy
Lovick Young
Sarah Morphias (her mark)


November 18 1738
Came before me Lamb Hardy and made oath that he saw Jacob Parrot sign seal
and publish it within as his last Will and Testament  that he was of
disposed mind and memory at that time & that Lovick Young and Sarah Morphias
were witnesses thereto.

W, Smith 

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