Chowan County NcArchives Wills.....Blount, Elizabeth 1732
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Source: Nc Wills & Inventories - Grimes
Written: 1732

               ELIZABETH BLOUNT'S WILL. 

NORTH CAROLINA, SC
 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, Elizabeth Blount, of Cho- 
wan Precinct, Widow, do make & Declare these presents to be 
& Contain my last Will & Testament, hereby Revoking all 
former & other Wills by me heretofore made & Declared.
 Imprs. I Give and bequeath unto my Son, John Blount, 
Ten shillings in Publick Bills of this Province.
 Item. I Give unto my Son, Thomas Blount, Ten shillings 
in Publick Bills of this Province.
 Item. I Give unto my Son, James Blount, the Negroe 
Woman named Cushaba and one third of the Cattle at Morat- 
toke, the Bed I comonly ly on, a Rugg, Bolster & pair of sheets.
 Item. I give unto my Daughter, Ann Worley, Thirty 
Pounds in Publick Bills of this Province.
 Item. I Give unto my Son, Joseph Blount, my Negro man 
Nam'd Hector.
 Item. I Give unto my Son, Charlesworth, my Negro man 
Nam'd Dick.
 Item. I Give unto my Daughter, Rachell, my Negro Man 
Named ffrank, my Side Sadie & all my wearing Cloathes.
 My Will & Desire is that my Land at Bare Swamp & the 
Land my husband puchased of Henry Haughton be Equally 
Divided between my two Sons, Joseph & Charlesworth, And 
that the Land at Barrows hole be sold by my Executors & the 
Doctor to be paid out of ye money Arising by the Sale thereof.
 All the rest of my Estate I Give unto my two Sons, Joseph 
& Charlesworth, & my Daughter, Rachell, to be Equally 
Divided between them.
 Lastly I hereby Constitute & Appoint Jno. Lovick, Esq., 
Samll. Pagett & Jonathan Jeacucks, Executors of this my 
Last Will & Testament.
  & in Testimony thereof, I have hereunto putt my hand &
Seal this 8th ffebry, 1732.
                           the mark of
                          ELIZ. X BLOUNT. (Seal)

  Sign'd, Seal' d Publish & Declar 'd 
in presence of :
        R HICKS.
        the mark of
       MARY X COLESON.

NORTH CAROLINA. SS.
  This Day came before me Robert Hicks, and made Oath on the Holy 
Evangelists that he saw Mrs. Elizabeth Blount, lately deceased, Sign, 
Seal, publish and declare the within Writeing to be her last will and Testa-
ment the day therein mentioned, & that he, the said Robert Hicks, did 
Witness the same, and that he saw Mary Coleson the other Witness there- 
unto put her Mark as Witness also to the same. Given under my hand
att Edenton the 12th. of March, Anno Domini, 1732-3.
                                            GEO. BURRINGTON.

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