Bertie  COUNTY  NC  Wills  Ann (Gardner) Standly 

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ANN GARDNER STANDLY

Vizt in the Name of God Amen I Ann Standly of the
County of Bertie County in the provence of North
Carolina Calling to mind the Mortality of my Body
and yt and yet it is appointed for all woman once to
die I do make this my Last Will and Testament as
followeth.

Vizt first of all I give and recommend my Soul into
the hands of Gad that gav it and as to the Worldly
Estate that it hath pleased God to give to me I give
and bequeath in the manner and form following: 

I give and bequeth unto my sister Elizabeth Jernigen
ten pounds prock money 

And Secondly I leave my three Negroes Pegg, Mingo
and Nance with all my household goods and Chattels
to be Equally divided between Martin Gardner and
John Gardner and James Gardner my Brothers and
sisters Anne Sparkman and Jane Pervis 

now it is the True intent and meaning of the my Last
Will and Testament that if my Brothers or Sisters or
any other claiming under or for them or any of them
shall be any ways discontented at this my Last Will
and Testamt so as to bring any Suit in the Law or
take any of the Good by me left to another that such
person so offending shall forfit all their part of
my Estate and be cut off with one Shilling Sterling
& their par shall have been theirs shall be divided
among my other Brothers and Sisters by Joseph
Holland and John Gardner whom I do constitute
appoint and Impower to be my true and Lawful
Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and I
do hereby utterly disallow & disannull all and every
other former will and Testament in witness where of
I have hereunto set my hand and fixed my seal this
seventeenth day of June in the Year of our Lord
Christ Seventeen hundred and Seventy five and in the
fifteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign King
George the third.

An (X) Standly (seal)

Signed Sealed and published &            
Delivered in presence of

Benjamin Carter, Jurt
James Gardner, Jurt
Samuel Gardner

Bertie County August Court 1775: proved by Banjamin Carter and James Gardner. Test. John Johnston, CJC.