Bladen County, NC - Will of John Green, 1749

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                 Last Will & Testament
 
Jn Green, Senior 
Sept. 1749 
Recorded in the North Carolina Secretary Office in B I, Page 100, 
Sept. 26, 1749
 
In the name of God amen this twenty eighth day of April Anno Dom 1749 I 
John Green being sick in body but of good and perfect memory thanks ___ 
and calling to remembrance the uncertain estate of this transitory life 
and that all ___when it shall please God to call To make and Declare 
this my last will and testament in manner and form following Imprimis   
I give and bequeath to my son James Green one Negro named Daniel  Item 
I five and bequeath to my son James one hundred and fifty acres of land 
lying between John Eliss and James Mitchel  Item  I give and bequeath 
unto my son Robert Green three hundred acres of land  Item I give and 
bequeath all my stock of cattle and horses and mares sheep and five 
Negroes and the plantation whereon I live to be equally divided among 
my wife and six children with all my household furniture to be equally 
divided amongst them  Item I give and bequeath unto son John Green one 
shilling sterlling money of Great Britain  Item I give and bequeath 
unto my daughter Sarah one shilling sterlling money of Great Britain 
and I hereby appoint my loving friends James Grange and James Carr and 
my beloved wife full and sole executors of this my last will and 
Testament hereby revoking disannulling and making void all former will 
and Bequeaths by me made and Declare that this only to be my last will 
and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seall 
                                        his  
                                    Jn  x Green 
Witness                                 mark             
John Eliss 
John Stubbs 
James Jones 
David Morley
 
North Carolina      June Court 1749 
Bladen County }                     
                                 This may certify that the last Will 
and Testament of John Green was proved in Open Court by the Oath of 
David Mosley and John Stubbs who swore that the said John Green was at 
the time of Executing the name was of Sound mind and that John Ellis 
and John Jones were subscribing Evidences both of ye same sound mind 
and memory and also James Carr one of the Executors named in the said 
Will qualified as an Executor  Witness Thomas Robeson Clerk of the said 
Court the 20 th day of June 1749
 
                          Tomas Robeson Clk C 
 
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