CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Richard Pilkinton, 13 Aug 1804
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Richard Pilkinton Will - dated 13 Aug., 1804, probated May, 1852
Chatham County Record of Wills, 1780-1857
C.022.80002, Vol. C., p. 317:

North Carolina, Chatham County
In the name of God Amen.  I, Richard Pilkinton, of the County and State
aforesaid, being in ordinary good health of sound and disposing mind and
memory do make and publish this as my last will and testament.
Imprimis.
I desire that all my just debts be paid.
Item.  I devise & bequeath to my son John William Madison Pilkinton the
child of my wife Anne formerly Anne Smith, the whole of my estate both
real and personal of every sort & description whatsoever I do hereby
appoint & nominate my said son J. W. M. Pilkinton sole Executor of this
my last will & testament.
In testimony of all which I the said Richard Pilkinton have hereunto
subscribed my hand & seal at Pittsboro this 13th August 1834.

Rich'd Pilkinton (seal)

Witness.
Thos. Ragland
Thos. Thompson
A. Gunter
H. H. Hatch
N. A. Stedman (Jurat)

North Carolina, Chatham County.  Court of pleas & quarter Sessions May
Term 1852.
This certifies that the foregoing last will & testament of Richard
Pilkinton deceased was duly proven in open court by the oath of N.A.
Stedman, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto & ordered to be
recorded whereupon J. W. M. Pilkinton the Executor therein named
appeared in open court & qualified as such.

Test. W. P. Taylor, C.C.C.
By S. L. Riddle, D.C.