CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Edmund Browder - 1781

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Edmund Browder Will, dated June 4, 1781, no probate date
Chatham County Record of Estates (1781-1799) Vol. 1, pg. 24 a,b
NC State Archives film # C.022.50001

Anodomini 1781 June the 4

In the name of god amen I Edmund Browder of Chatham County State of 
North Carolina planter being weak in body but through the mercy of 
almighty god of a sound mind and being convinced of the mortallity of 
my body having made my peace with god through Jesus Christ I do solemly
commit my soul into his hands as into the hands of a failthful Creator 
and my Mortal body after my decease to the care of my surviving family 
and friends to be laid in the grave with Christan descresion in full 
assurance of hope and joyful expectation of receiving the same 
gloriously improved in the morning of the resurection and as for those 
temporal good and blessing which god was pleased to me me steward of in
this world I leave as follows first unto my youngest son John Browder I
bequeath the plantation I now live on containing three hundred acres of
Land one Negroe Man named Will one Negro woman named Hannah and one boy
Phill My tender Loving wife to be maintained out of it with him as long
as she lives with the use of one feather bead and two cows and calves
Secondly, I give to my son Darius Browder one Tract of Land lying on 
New Hope Containing three hundred acres, one Negro Boy named tom one 
Negro Girl named Silve one Bay Stallion
Thirdly, I give to my two Daughters Lois J. Mason all that is my 
property in virgine to be Equally divided when maried or come of age 
desiring my Brother Joseph Broder to take them and theirs in care 
Now all the residue of my Estate I desire to be Equally divided amongst
my Daughters Molly Clark, Ernice/Eunice Wilson, Silva White, Debrah 
Browder and I leave Wm. Wilson and Darius Browder to be my Exeters 
which I do assert to be my Last Will & Testament denying all other 
Wills from whence any other might arise given under my hand and seal
this 4th day of June one thousand seven hundred and Eight one

John White
Thomas Bell
Wm. Wilson Signed Edm'd Browder {Seal}
A Copy Test. John Ramsey C.C.