Chowan-Bertie-Duplin County NcArchives Wills.....King, Michael May 20, 1741
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Source: Chowan County North Carolina Archives
Written: May 20, 1741
Recorded: October 29, 1741

NC State Archives, Secretary of State Original Wills, 1663-1789, SS.849

BERTIE COUNTY NC Will: Michael King, 1741
In the Name of God Amen. I Michael King of North Carolina in Bartie County being
very sick of body but in Perfect mind & Memory praise be therefore Given to
Allmighty God do make & ordain this my presant Last will & Testament in manner &
form following, (that is to say) First & Principally, I Commend my soul into the
hands of Allmighty God, hoping that through the merrits Death & passion of my
Saviour Jesus Christ, to have full & free pardon & forgiveness of all my sins, &
to Inherit Everlasting Life & my body I Commit to the Earth to be Decently
Buried at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named; & as -oucking all such
Temporal Estate as it hath pleased Allmighty God to bestow upon me I Give &
Dispose thereof as Followeth.

Item. I give bequeath unto my Loving Wife Isbell King* five Negroes Viz; hary
Tower hill bes hannah & murrear? for her Life further more I give & bequeath
unto my loving wife one bed & Furniture, & two horses Namely prince & ball & a
Sidesaddle, my Cattle & Sheep to be Equally Divided amongst them & as for my
hogs I give & bequeath to Each of my Children three sows & pigs when they Come
of age & the remainder of the hogs to my wife. I further-more give unto my
Loving wife one Gold ring during her life & after her Death to my son Michaell
King.

Item: I Give & bequeath unto my Loving Son Michaell King two Negroes Viz; Green
& Isbell & their Increas & an Equal part of the moveable Estate, Likewise one
mare & a new Tradeing Gun. Furthermore I give & bequeath unto my Loving Son
Michael one tract or parcel of Land Containing by Estimation Two Hundred & Fifty
Acres it being a peice of Land that I bought off Richard Byrd.

Item: I give & bequeath unto my Loving Son Henry King Two Negroes Viz; Robin &
Pegg & his part of all the Moveable Estate & one Mare & a Tradeing Gun, & my
mannor Plantation & Land adjouning to in all Containing Two hundred & Twenty
Five Acres.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my Loving son John King Three Negroes Viz Jack
Taffey & Frank them & their Increas for Ever, & his Equal part of the Moveable
Estate & a Young horse to my Loving son John Called Sterling.

Item. I Give to my Loving Daughter Catherine King one Negroe Girl Called or
Named pat & her part of the Moveable Estate.

Item: I Give & bequeath to my Loving Daughter Isbell King one Negroe Girl Called 
Sary & her part of the moveable Estate.

Item:  I Give & bequeath to my Loving Daughter Penelope King one Negroe girl
Called Vilet & if so bes the dies of the Sickness she dies with that she shall
have the child that bes is now with Child with, & her part of the moveables;

Item: I give & bequeath to my Daughter Mary King one negroe girl called
Pressilla & her part of the moveables;

The five negroes that I give unto my Loving wife after her Death to be Equally 
Divided among my Children & their Increase.

I do make & ordain my Loving wife & Coll Robt West & his son Robt West my True &
Lawfull Exts of this my Last will & testament In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed my seal this 20 day of may 1741.
Test: Roger Snell
Jno. Hill J. Hollbrook Michael King (seal)

Michael King's
Will
Letters pd. appril
3d. 1742
R----
October 29th 1741

John Hill one of the subscribeing Evidences to the within Will this day appeared 
before me & on the holy evangelists made oathe that he saw the within Testator 
Michael King sign seal & publish the within Writeing at his last will & Testament &

that he the sd. Michael was then of sound & disposeing mind & memory.  
J. Montgomery ---



Additional Comments:
NOTES BY AL BARRS albarrs@wfeca.net:
* Michael King of North Carolina in Bartie County, NC:
Isabel King, was a wife of Michael King, who was the son of Henry King.  Isabel
Ferguson was the daughter of Anne Woodnut-Ferguson. Anne Ferguson was the 2nd
wife of Robert Bell of Bertie County NC. Isabel Ferguson(Bell)-King was the
stepdaughter of Robert Bell who was born 1675 in Isle of Wight County Virginia
to George Bell and Hester Webster born 1630 County Durham England…Al Barrs, Bell
Family History


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