Bladen County NcArchives Wills.....Mustlewhite, Thomas 1770
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Source: Bladen County, Nc Will Book
Written: 1770

In the name of God Amen
      The fourteenth day of September in the year of
our Lord 1770  I Thomas Mustlewhite of the County
of Bladen and Province of North Carolina being
very sick and weak in body but of Perfect mind
& memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling
unto mind the mortality of my body & knowing that
it is appointed for all men once to die do make
& ordain this my last will and testament.
that is to say principally and first of all I
give & recommend it to the earth to be buried
in a Christian like and decent manner 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 & as
touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath
pleased God to bless me in this life.  I give devise
& dispose of the same in manner & form following
Impremis.  It is my will & I do order that in
the first place all my just debts & funeral charges
be paid and satisfied.
Item     I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Jesse
Mustle White one shilling sterling
Item     I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Thomas
Mustle White one shilling sterling
Item     I give and bequeath unto my loving daughter
Amey one shilling sterling
Item     I give and bequeath unto my loving daughter
Elizabeth one shilling sterling
Item     I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Mary Mustle White
all the remainder of my estate both real and
personal during her widowhood & in case she
marrys a child’s part
Item     My will and desire is that my seven daughters
Winny, Ellen, Bridget, Mary, Amelia, Patience
and Sarah have an equal part of all my
movable estate except my negroes to them their
heirs & assigns forever
Item     I give and bequeath unto my four sons
Milbay, Nathan, Thomas, Alexander Mustlewhite
all my lands and negroes to be equally divided
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Between them likewise to have and equal part of the
moveable estate to them their heirs and assigns forever
            I constitute and ordain my loving wife Mary
Mustlewhite Executrix and my loving son Milbay
Executor of this my last will and Testament
And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and dis
annul all and every former Testaments wills
Legacies and Executors by me in any way before
this time named willed and bequeathed ratifying
and confirming this and no other to be my last
Will and Testament
            In witness where of I here unto set my hand
and seal the day and year above written
Signed sealed published
And pronounced and declared}
by the said Testate as his       {
last Will and Testament          }
in the presence of us            {
The Subscribers ~                }  Thomas Mustlewhite {Seal}
Ithamar Singletary               {
        his                      }
Richard  x  Thomas               {
        mark                     }
        her                      {
Caroline x  Singletary           {
        mark                     }
 
Bladen County Will Book  pages 553-554, Bladen County Courthouse, Elizabethtown, 
NC.

Additional Comments:
Surname is Musselwhite.  Thomas Musselwhite migrated from Isle of Wight Co VA 
south to southeastern NC,  and settled in that part of Bladen Co NC, which is now 
in eastern Robeson Co NC.  At least four of the sons, Alexander, Milbea, Nathan 
and Thomas Musselwhite, later served as soldiers during the Revolutionary War.

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