CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Thomas Vestal - 1807

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Thomas Vestal Will- 22 July 1807
Chatham Co. Wills, Vol. A, pg. 237, 237(a)
NC State Archives, film # C.022.8001

I Thomas Vestal of Chatham County and State of North Carolina being
(favoured?) with health and memory but knowing that it is appointed for
all men to die. I do make this my last Will and Testament touching
such worldly estate and hath pleased God to bless me with.
I give devise and dispose of the same in following form. I ordain,
constitute appoint my truly friend William Vestal and William Marshall
to be my only and sole executors of this my last Will and Testament,
allowing my Last debts & funeral charges to be first paid, out of my 
estate. 
First, I give unto Elizabeth my dear Wife, one fine chest, one feather
Bed & furniture 2 Puter dishes 2 puter basons, half dozen Puter plates,
two Pots, one oven, one spinning wheel, one fring (frying) pan, one 
Main? sadle and bridle, two Cows & Calves two spotted? hogs and fifty
pounds in money to be her own. And likewise I give her that part of the
plantation we live on with House and Orchard during her life time or 
widowhood. And I giver her the privilege of the household furniture 
while a widow. And the Land I now live on I leave between David and
Silas Vestal that is to leave/have ? (this phrase doesn't make sense)
Silas' run Forty rod from his Northeast corner, North then West
Fifty two rods then North to divide line and to all the bottom on the 
East ( above this is written in tiny script "side or line of Ruffy
River? - very hard to read), from one dividing line to the other, to 
him and his heirs forever . And the rest of the said land I give to 
David my son to him and his heirs, forever. And the rest of my estate
I leave to be to be equally divided among my Ten children or to their
heirs if dead.
And I leave my close to be divided among my sons and William is to have
the big Bible and the Howe. I request that my Executors of this my last
Will and Testament to act in place or in my stead as Trustees of the
whole charge. And I request them to discharge their Trust faithfully.
In witness and testimony whereof I have set my hand & affixed my seal
this 22nd day of the 7 Month 1807.
Test.
Nathan Vestal Thomas Vestal {Seal}
Isaac Hobren? Proved August Session 1813 by Nathan Vestal Isaac Hobren?

(Comment- Thomas was a Quaker- Notice the last of swearing, in the name
of God and the way the date is given.)