Buncombe County NcArchives Wills.....McCrary, Boyd 1815 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mark Valsame MV66NC@msn.com August 30, 2018, 3:50 pm Source: Howard County, Missouri Will Book Written: 1815 Will of Boyd McCrary Howard County, Missouri Will Book Volume 2, 1832-1840, pp. 36-38. Devised October 18, 1815 Buncombe County, NC. Proven March 31, 1819 Buncombe County, NC. Buncombe County, NC Clerk’s Copy dated November 8, 1832. Recorded Howard County, Missouri July 13, 1833. In the name of God Amen, I Boyd McCrary of the State of North Carolina and Buncombe County being very sick in body but in perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling to mind the mortality of my body knowing that it is appointed for men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hand of Almighty God who gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my wife and legatees nothing doubting but I shall receive the same again at the general resurrection by the power of Almighty God and touching such worldly estate as it has pleased God to give me in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following form and manner. 1stly all my lawful debts paid 2ndly my wife to have(?) fifty acres of land including the orchard of apples and peaches and dwelling house, barn, mill, stable, and smoke house together with all the house hold and kitchen furniture and farming utensils and my two slaves Henry and Hagar and all the horses, hogs, cattle, and sheep to be for her use while she does live and at her death her fifty acres of land to belong to my sons John and James and her moveable property I will to be equally divided among the legatees and I give and bequeath to my sons John and James all my land after the death of my wife lying on the north side of Cain Creek together with waggon and still. Also I will and bequeath to my sons Elijah and Benjamin all my land lying on the south side of Cain Creek with every appertenant thereto belonging. 4thly I give and bequeath to my grand son Silas McCrary son of Joseph McCrary deceast all that tract of land lying up the Mill Creek containing 55 acres with every appertenant thereto belonging. 5thly I will and bequeath unto my three grand sons Hugh and Hans and John McCrary sons of William McCrary decet one hundred dollars to be equally divided among them when the youngest becomes of age paid by John and James McCrary to be discharged in trade. 6thly I will and bequeath unto my son Hugh one hundred to be discharged in trade priced by two free holders to be paid four years after my death my John and James McCrary. 7thly I will and bequeath unto my daughter Elenor one hundred dollars to be discharged in trade four years after my death paid by John and James McCrary priced by two free holders. 8thly I will and bequeath unto my daughter Phebe one hundred dollars to be paid four years after my death by John and James McCrary to be paid in trade. 9thly I will and bequeath unto my daughter Nancy one hundred dollars to be discharged in trade four years after my death by Elijah and Benjamin McCrary. 10th I will and bequeath unto my daughter Susannah one hundred dollars to be discharged in trade four years after my death to be paid by Elijah and Benjamin McCrary. And I hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all other wills or bequeaths by me in any other way before named willed and bequeathed ratifie and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th of October in the year of our Lord 1815. In the presence of us John Whitaker Boyd McCrary Andrew Merrell Benjamin Merrell Joseph Henry Know all men by these presents that I Boyd McCrary being in perfect mind and memory do by these presents nominate and appoint my wife Nancy and my son James McCrary my lawful Executors to perform and fill the requests of this my last will and testament. State of North Carolina Buncombe County County Courts Office I John Miller Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of the last will and testament of Boyd McCrary decd as appears from the records of my said office and that the same was duly proved in open court on the 31st of March 1819 by the oaths of Nimrod Merrell and Joseph Henry subscribing witness thereto it was recorded and James McCrary swore as Executors to the said last will and testament. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8th day of November 1832. John Miller Clerk By N. W. Woodfin D Clk State of North Carolina Buncombe County I Ephraim Hightower Chairman of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Buncombe do hereby certify that John Miller Esq. is Clerk of the Court over which I preside and that Nicholas W. Woodfin is the lawful deputy clerk of said and that due faith and credit should be given to their or either of their official acts as such. Certified under my hand this 8th day of November 1832. E Hightower C C C State of Missouri County of Howard I certify that I recorded the foregoing last will and testament of Boyd McCrary deceased and the certificate of the Clerk and the certificate of the Chairman of the Court on the 13th day of July 1833. John B. Clark Clk Transcribed by Mark Valsame, Raleigh, NC. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/buncombe/wills/mccrary2676gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 5.9 Kb