CHOWAN COUNTY, NC - Will - Sarah Etheridge, 1812. ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dixie Briggs Apr 1999 ======================================================================== From the original at NC Archives, Raleigh, NC; Chowan Co. Wills WILL OF SARAH ETHERIDGE State of North Carolina Edenton Chowan County May 11th 1812 Know all men that I Sarah Etheridge finding and knowing myself in good health of mind tho in great weakness of body do make this my last will and testament. I do hereby leave to my daughter Clara one bedstead bed and furniture. To my son William one bedstead bed and furniture, one half dozen silver spoons. I leave my negro girl Phillis to be hired out untill William is free (or as long as he lives) and then to be sold and divided among my children - the remainder of my property I wish sold and divided among my children - and I do wish Henry Bond to act as Executor to this my last will and also leave my Daughter Clara and Son William in his care and under his protection to do and act for them as he the said Henry Bond may find best. I also leave to Henry the son of Henry Bond (My Executor) all the property under his fathers care which I hold a bill of sale for - done the day and date above written and in the name of God Amen. /S/ Sarah Etheridge (seal) Witness: Wm. Grimes Hy Bond qualified as Exr June Term 1812