Bertie County NcArchives Wills.....West, Peter 1751
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Source: Nc Archives
Written: 1751

Will of Peter West
31 July 1749
Located in the NC State Archives
Transcribed by M. Maarbjerg

In the name of God Amen.

I Peter West of the County of Bertie County in the Province of North Carolina 
Calling to Mind the Mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men 
once to Die I do make this my last will and testament as followeth:

First of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it. 
And as to the worldly Estate that it hath pleased God to give to me I give and 
bequeath in manner and form following:

I give and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah West one negro woman named Black Mary 
and one negro girl named Rose and one halfe of all my movable estate and other 
negroes ...... Also I give my daughter Sarah West the plantation whereon I now 
live with all the land and other appertainences thereunto belonging to her and 
her heirs for ever.

I give unto my daughter Elisabeth Cotton one shilling sterling also I give to 
my daughter Elisabeth Cotton one suit of wearing apparril worth five pounds 
Virginia currency. Her marriage hath proved unhappy and hath given her 
children four negroes as by deed of gift baring date November the 15th 1748.

I give unto my son Peter West all the remainder of my lands missages and 
tennements. Also I give to my son Peter West three negros in manner following 
that is to say I give to my said son one negro man named Primus to be 
delivered to him the said Peter West ...... And I give to my said son one 
negro man named Cob to be delivered to my said son after he hath served my 
well beloved wife two years, also I give to my son Peter West one negro woman 
named Moll to be delivered to him the said Peter after the death of my wife or 
at the day of her marage. Also I give to my son Peter West all my wearing 
apparill

I send unto my well beloved wife all the remainder of my movable Estate in 
manner following Viz I lend to my wife one negro man named Cob to serve for 
two years after my decease then to be delivered to my son Peter West and I 
lend to my said wife one negro woman named Moll to serve my said wife during 
her widowhood and at the day of her marage or after her death I do give the 
said negro named Moll to my son Peter West and all the remainder of my movable 
estate lent to my wife that shall remain at the death of my wife or at the day 
of her marage shall then be delivered to my grandson William West.

Now it is the intent and meaning of this my last will and testament that if my 
son or son in law or my daughters or daughter in law shall in any ways 
Incontented(?) at this my last will and testament so as to bring any suit in 
law or take any of the goods by me left to another, then such Person so 
offending shall forfitt all their part of my Estate and for ...... with one 
shilling and the part that should have been theirs shall be divided among my 
other children by my son Peter West and Charles Horner whom I do constitute 
and appoint and impower to be my named lawfull Executors of this my last will 
and testament. And I do hereby utterly Disalow and Disanul all and every other 
former will and testament by me in any way before made ratifying and 
confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & fixed my seal this 31sst day of July in 
the year of our Jesus Christ 1749 and in the twenty second year of the Reign 
of our sovereign King George the second.

Peter West
Signed, Sealed Published & Declared
In the Presence of:

Henry Winborne
Bryan Hanes
Winston(?) Rogers (his mark)

Bertie County
Spring Court 1751

The last will and testament of Peter West late of this County deceased 
exhibited into Court by Peter West and proved by the Oaths of Henry Winbourne 
and Bryan Hanes two of the subscribing Evidences and it was ordered to be 
Certified.
                                         Test.  James Ormes, Clerk

Recorded in Book A Fol. 22 by James Ormes, Deputy Sec'y


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