Chatham County NcArchives Wills.....Brantley, John 1777
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Source: Nc Archives
Written: 1777

John Brantley will – made 12 August 1777 – Probated February 1782
Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, 
North Carolina (Family History Library microfilm 1,548,327, item #2).

In the name of God, Amen. I, John Brantly, of the County of Chatham & province 
of North Carolina, being weak in body, but in perfect mind and memory, but 
calling to mind the uncertain of this life & the mortality of the body, do 
make & ordain this to be my last will & testament, viz. First, I recommend my 
body to the dust to be buried in a Christian like manner & my soul into the 
hands of God that gave it, in hope of its resurrection to eternal life & 
tuching such worldly estate as has pleased God to bless me with, I desire to 
give & dispose in manner & form following:

I. Item. I leave the use of my plantation, two cows and a grey mare, three 
sows and pigs, and ten barrels of corn, and two Negroes, Pat and Job, to my 
loving wife enduring her lifetime & at her decease for the plantation to go to 
my son Benjamin, & the two Negroes & other estate to be equal divided between 
my children.

II. Item. I give & bequeath to my granddaughter Rana Higdon five pounds to be 
paid out of my estate, & no more, to her and her heirs forever.

III. Item. I give & bequeath to my grandson Phillip Higdon five pounds to be 
paid out of my estate, & no more, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give & bequeath to my grandson Charles Higdon five pounds to be paid 
out of my estate, & no more, to him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give & bequeath to my grandson Edmund Jones twenty shillings, & no 
more, to be paid out of my estate to him & his heirs forever.

Item. I give & bequeath to my loving son Joseph Brantly, three Negroes, a 
wench named Nan, & a Negro girl named June and a Negro girl named Tuck, to him 
& his heirs forever.

Item. I give & bequeath to my loving son John Brantly, two Negroes, named 
Bridget and Jacob, to him & his heirs forever.

Item. I give & bequeath to my loving son William Brantly, two Negroes, named 
Jack and Pationce, to him & his heirs forever.

Item. I give & bequeath to my loving son Benjamin Brantly, two Negroes, named 
Dick & Nance, to him & his heirs forever.

Item. I give & bequeath to my loving son Phillip Brantly, two Negroes, named 
Pat & Sam, to him & his heirs forever.

And I do hereby appoint my two sons, Joseph & John, executors of this my last 
will & testament, disannulling all other form of wills before by me made, as 
witness my hand & seal this 12th day of August 1777.
John Brantly Sr. (seal)

Signed, sealed and delivered in presents of
Interline before signing
David (his mark) D. Mattock
Abraham Womack

Feb Court 1782
The above will duly proved in open court by the oath of David Mattock
Test.
A. Clark, CCC.

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