CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Henry Pickard - 1790

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Henry Pickard Will, dated July 16, 1790, no probate date
Chatham Co., Record of Estates Vol. 1, pp. 38, 38(b)
NC State Archives film # C.022.50001

In the name of god amen I Henry Pickard of Chatham County and State of 
North Carolina being very sick and weak of body but of sound and 
perfect mind and memory blessed be god, do make and ordain this my last
will and Testament in manner and form following. My will is that all my
just debts be firs paid _ Imprimis 
Item I give to my son Robert Clark and Mary Clark his wife to them and 
there heirs forever all the lands together with the plantations whereon
William Pickard now lives that is not allready Deaded away by me in 
Consideration of his paying ten pounds apeace to each of my son John 
Pickarts three sons, Micager Pickert, Robert Pickert and John Pickert, 
Each Child to reseave his ten pounds Lawfull money of the State when he
arrives to Lawfull age my Will is that all my personal Estate after my 
Just debts are paid be appraisd by Vachel Clark and Thomas Braxton and 
to be left in the possession of my beloved wife Elizabeth Pickart 
during her life or widowhood and then to be Eaqually divided amongst my 
son William Pickart, Henry Pickart, and Thomas Pickert, and my 
daughters Christian Watly?, Elizabeth Lacey, Sarah Baldwin, and Mary 
Clark, each Child is to receive their eaqual shear at the death
of my beloved wife Elizabeth Pickert or then End of her widowhood And 
Lastly I constitute and appoint my trusty friends Peter Quakinbush and 
William Pickert Executors of this my last will and Testament hereby 
revoking all other wills and Testaments by me before made, In Witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th day of July 1790
Signed sealed and published
and declared to be my last Will
in presents of us....
W. Douglass
Vachell Clark
Olive (her X mark) Clark
Signed Henry Pickerd {Seal}
A Copy Test John Ramsey, C.C.