CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Aaron Jones - 1792

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Aaron Jones Will - dated 11 March 1792 - no probate date
(Quaker)

To all Christian people to whom these presents may come greeting__
Whereas I Aaron Jones of the County of Chatham & State of North
Carolina calling to mind the uncertainty of time and great certainty of
death do this Eleventh day of the third month In the year of our lord 
one thousand seven hundred & ninety two make & publish this as my Last
Will & testament in manner & form as followith In the first place
it is my Will & I order that my Body be decently buried, Secondly that 
my Just debts be paid I will & bequeath to my Daughter Mirium ? one 
heifer with a white face a nu (new?) harness and it is my will that my 
Daughter Jemmimah shall have a brown coloured Heifer with a modled 
face & it is my Will that my Daughter Hannah shall have a brendle 
heifer with a small matter of white in her face & It is my will that my
Daughter Sarah & my Son Aaron shall Each of them have two pounds and it
is my Will that my plantation be sold and the profits arising therefrom
& the rest of my personal that is not willed it is my Will that my 
beloved wife Hannah shall have the whole of It after my Just debts is 
paid, Lastly * constitute & appoint my friends Thomas Lindly & Joshua 
Hadley my whole and sole Executors In Trust for the Intents and 
purposes herein mentioned In Witness whereof In Witness whereof 
(repeated) I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and year above 
written
Charles Jones
Isaac Hadley
Sarah Lindly Signed Aaron (his X mark) Jones {Seal}
A Copy Test. John ramsey C. C.