CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Robert Marsh, 14 Mar 1801
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Chatham Co., N.C. Record of Wills, Vol. A, pg. 193b
N.C. State Archives film # C.022.80001 

Robert Marsh Will dated 14 Mar., 1801

MY NOTE: This will is typed and then microfilmed. 

In the name of God Amen, I Robert Marsh of the county of Chatham & State
of North Carolina being in perfect mind and memory, thanks be given to
God, calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is
apointed for all men once to die, do make & ordain this my last Will &
testament. - Viz.
Principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul into the hands of
almighty God that gave it me & my body to the earth to be decently
buried at discretion. Nothing doubting, but at the general resurrection,
I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as
touching such worldly estate thereunto it hath pleased God to bless me
with in this life. I give demise & dispose of the following manner &
form. First I give & bequeath to my ^un^ married children the Sum of
twenty pounds each. North Carolina currency to be paid at their marriage
to be raised & levied out of my estate: also I give unto my son Charles
Marsh the sum of five Shillings Sterling' and the balance of my estate
to be equally divided betwixt the rest of my children John William,
Robert, Joseph, Henry & Alexander my Sons & Elizabeth Brantley, Barbara
Griffith, Mary Hackney, Nancy Dilliard, Martha Lambert, Sarah Davis,
Frances Taylor, Eliza Stuart, and Henrietta My daughters. And I do
hereby constitute make & ordain William Marsh & Daniel Hackney the sole
executors of this my last will and testament; And do hereby disannul,
revoke & disallow all & every other former testament, Wills legacies
bequests & executors by me in any wise before named Will'd bequeathed,
ratified & confirmed this & no other to be my last Will & testament. In
witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this fourteenth day
of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & one

				Robert Marsh {Seal}
Signed, Sealed, Published & 
Pronounced & declared by the
sd. Robert Marsh as his last
Will & testament in the
presence of us who in these
presence & in the presence 
of each other have hereto
subscribed our names.
Solomon Dorsett
James Collins
Matthew Daly
John Marsh
	Proved by Solomon Dorsett & by James Collins.