CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Robert Spiers - 1788

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Robert Spiers, dated May 14, 1788 no probate date
Chatham Co., NC, Record of Estates, Vol. 1, pp 36, 36(b)
NC State Archives film # C.022.50001

{My Note- Thornton Mitchell's book says the will was in 1789 and that 
his name was Spires. The date is written quite clearly Eighty Eight.
And his name is spelled Speres or Spires (without the i dotted) and 
Spiers (four times) So, I have gone with the spelling Spiers. The 
majority wins!)

In the name of god amen the 14 day of May in the year of our Lord one 
thousand seven hundred Eighty Eight I Robert Speres in the County of 
Chatham being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory
thanks be given unto god for the same and Calling to mind the mortality 
of my body and knowing that it is apointed once for all men to dye do 
make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to say 
principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul unto the 
hands of god the give al and for my body I recommend it to the yearth 
to be buried in a Christian like maner at the discresion of my 
Executors Nothing doubting but at the General resurrection I shall 
receive the same again by the mighty power of god and touching
such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased god to bless me in this 
life I give devise and dispose of the same in maner and form following 
that is to say__ 
In the first place I give and bequeath to Elizabeth my dearly beloved 
Wife all the Lands and all the Moevables Estate that I now possess I
leave to my Wife for her lifetime and after her death the Lands I lave 
to my sun Robert Spiers the remainder of the Estate is to be divided 
Equil betwen the rest also I give to my well beloved wife Elizabeth 
Spiers whom I likewise Constitute make and ordain my only and sole 
Executer of this my Last Will and Testament all and Singular my Land 
messuages and Tenements by her freely to be possesed and enjoyd and I 
do hearby utterly disalow revoke and disannull all and every other 
former Testments Wills and Leagacies Bequests and Executors by me in 
any ways before this time named Willed and bequeathed ratifyed and 
Confirmed this and no other to be my last Will and Testament in Witness 
whereof I have hearunto Set my hand and Sail the day and year above 
written
Signed Sealed published prononced and declared by the said Robert 
Spiers as his Last Will and Testament in the presents of us the 
subscribers that is to say
Samuel Gilmore
James Bullard
Signed Robert (his X mark) Spiers {Seal}
A Copy Test. John Ramsey C. C.