CASWELL COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Elisha Berry,  1 Aug 1839
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October 1839
Elisha Berry Will
In the name of God amen. I Elisha Berry of the County of of [sic] Caswell and 
State of North Carolina being of sound mind and memory but infirm in body and 
in bad health, and calling to mind the uncertanity [sic] of life and the 
Certanity [sic] of death, and being desirous before death of deposing [sic] of 
what Estate it has been [sic] pleased God to bless me with in this life, I do 
hereby make & publish this, as my last will & Testament in Manner & form 
following ~
1st It is my desire, & I do I [sic] instruct my Executors to pay off and 
discharge any Just debts I my [sic] owe at my death, and to give me a decent 
Christen Burial such as my Family my [sic] desire & they Shall expedent [sic] 
~
2nd I devise to my Wife Frances during her life or Widowhood the plantation 
and land on which I now live during her natural life or Widowhood, and in Case 
She Should think proper to marry again my desire is that the whole of my 
property both real and personal be equally divided among all my then living 
Children.
3rd I here Constitute and Appoint my Wife Frances Berry Executrix and her 
Brother Antiochus Boswell my Executor, of this my last Will and Testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed my Seal this 1st day 
of August 1839.
				[Signed] Elisha Berry {Seal}.

Signed, Seald [sic] & published in presence of us, as the last Will and 
Testament of the said Elisha Berry.
A. Graves
John Somers

State of North Carolina, Caswell County } Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. 
October Term 1839. The Execution of the foregoing last Will and Testament of 
Elisha Berry decd. was duly proved in Open Court by the Oath of Genl. Azariah 
Graves and John Sommers the subscribing witnesses thereto and on motion 
Ordered to be Recorded. At the same time Antiochus Boswell the Executor 
therein named came in Open Court and duly qualified to Execute the same, and 
Letters testamentary were issued to him accordingly.
Test. Paul A. Haralson, Clk."