Bertie County NC  Will of RAY,  Alexander - 1769

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Will of Alexander Ray   Bertie CO

in the name of god amen I Alexander ray of the county of bertie north 
Carolina planter, being very sick and weak in body but of perfect 
mind and memory thanks be given unto god calling unto mind the 
mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men 
once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that 
is to say principally and first of all ZI give and recommend my soul 
into the hand of almighty god that gave it and my body I recommend to 
the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion 
of my executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I 
shall receive the same again by the mighty power of god and as 
touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased god to bless me 
with in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the 
following manner and form

first I give and bequeath unto my beloved son James ray 50 a of land 
be the same more or less lying in tyrrell CO with all my cattle there 
also my mulatto woman Amy and one bed and blanket and one kettle

also I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son john ray my mulatto 
boy Luke

also I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son Samuel ray all my 
land on the other side of my son Stephen line toward john stillwell’s 
also my old mulatto woman Sarah my old hony ball one bed one rug and 
one pot

also I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son Stephen ray the 
house on which I now live and the part of my land boarding on peter 
west line taking on  the cleared ground to the great pine and from 
thence to a hickory where the got gun ships to George clomony andsons 
also my mullatto woman Rebecca two beds and furniture my gray horse 
and colt cattle two hogs clothes also all my part of the corn and the 
remainder of my household goods and moveable by him to be freely 
possessed and enjoyed also

I give and bequeath to my well beloved dau Patience Pender my young 
mulatto woman Sarah

I also give and bequeath to my well beloved dau Mary Thomas the sum 
of six shillings sterl

also I give and bequeath to my well beloved son William’s dau 
Elizabeth ray the sum of one shilling sterl

I constitute amake and ordain my well beloved son Samuel ray and 
solomon pender the sole ex of this my last will and testament and I 
do hereby utterly disallow revoke and d9isanuall all and every other 
former testaments wills legacies bequests and ex by me in any ways 
before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and 
no other to bye my last will and testament  in witness whereof I have 
hereunto set y hand and seal this fourth day of november, in the year 
of our lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine  signed sealed 
published pronounced and declared by the said Alexander ray as his 
last will and testament in the presents of us who in his presents and 
the presents of each other have hereto subscribed our names
Wit: William swain, James swinhow Grover


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