Bertie County NcArchives Wills.....Sutton, Thomas 1779
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Source: N C Archives
Written: 3 March 1778

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In the Name of God Amen March 3d Day 1778 I Thomas Sutton
of North Carolina & County of Bertie Planter being sick & weak
in Body though blessed before of sound and perfect Understanding
& Memory do make ordain & constitute this my Last Will
Testament (that is to say) principally & first of all I give & Recom
mend my Soul to God That gave it and my Body to the
Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the
Direction of my Executors after name and as touch
ing such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless
me with I give & Dispose of it in the following manner &
form First I will & positively order that all my
Debts be paid
Imprimis I give and bequeath to my Son Thomas Sutton
all my Land & Plantation whereon I now live to him his
Heirs & Assigns forever provided he should live to the age
of twenty one Years & have Issue of his Body lawfully 
begotten but in case he should die before he comes to the 
Age twenty one years without lawfull Issue the
above said Land & Plantation to fall to his sister Mary Sutton 
to her & her Heirs & Assigns forever provide she should 
live to Age of twenty one years or have Heirs of her Body 
lawfully begotten but in case she should die before she 
comes to the Age of twenty one Years or without Heirs of 
her Body lawfully begotten then & in that Case, I give 
demise and bequeath the above s.d Land & Plantation to my
Sister Mary Hardy’s Children to be equally divided
among them to them their Heirs & Assigns forever 
Item I give and bequeath the remainder Part of my
Estate to be equally divided between my two children 
namely Thomas Sutton & Mary Sutton aforesd. to be
divided when either of them Marries or comes of to 
the age of twenty one Years to them their Heirs & Assigns 
proved they live to the Age of twenty one Years 
or marry but in Case neither of them live to the Age of 
twenty one twenty one Years or marry then and in 
that Case I give & bequeath all the remainder Part 
of my Estate as abovesaid to my absd to my abovesd 
Sister Mary Hardy’s Children to be equally divided 
between them to them their Heirs & Assigns forever 
Furthermore my Will & Pleasure is that nothing of my 
Estate be sold more than will pay Debts & defray Charges 
or as my Executors shall think proper
Item & Lastly I do constitute ordain & appoint my 
Brother in law William Jordan and my friend William 
Hardy Executors of this my last Will & Testament entrusted 
for my Children to Execute my aforesd Will utterly 
revoking & dismantling & disallowing all former 
Will or Wills, ratifying & confirming this and no
other to be my last Will & Testament In Witness 
whereof I do hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 
Day and Year above written

Signed Sealed Declared & Pronounced
in the Presence of Us
Charles Hogson			Thomas Sutton
Samuel Moore Junr
Mary Sutton

		August Court 1779

Bertie County Proved in due form of Law by the Oath
of Samuel Moore one of the Subscribing Witnesses 
and ordered to be recorded.

			Test, Stevens Gray CC

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