Chowan County NcArchives Wills.....THOMPSON Of CHOWAN COUNTY, John August 3, 1755 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Milisia Hanlin NineBetweens@aol.com April 16, 2007, 11:40 am Source: North Carolina Archives Written: August 3, 1755 Recorded: December 15, 1755 John Thompson, [Chowan County], North Carolina "North Carolina In the Name of God amen I John Thompson Being Sick & week of Body but of perfect Mind & Memory Thanks be to the Almighty God Do Make & Ordain this to be My Last Will & Testament In Manner & form Following Vizt.-- My Will & Desire is that My Extors hereafter Named Dispose of 2 Negro Slaves to Witt Jack & Little Soll and a Plantation tract or percell of Land Known by the Name of [---?---]hill towards paying My just Debts I Give to My Loving Wife Mary Thompson My Land & plantation whereon I Now Live During her Natural Life Excepting One hundred Acres which I reserve for My Son Robt. Thompson Joyning on the beaver dam & Spring branch Begining a the Gunddelo [?] Landing [ru]nning a Cross the Said Land to Micajah Bunches Line and at her Decease I Give all My Lands & Plantations Whatsoever to My Son Robert Thompson if he Should Die before he Comes to the Age of 21 years or Without Lawful Heir then I give My Manner Plantation to be Equaly devided between My Wife Mary Thompson & William Thompson son of James Thompson by a Line from the Creek to Micajah Bunches Line & the sd. Wm. Thompson to have that part Joyning Next the Beaver dam to them and their heirs for Ever-- I Give to My Wife Mary Thompson 3 negro slaves to Witt Bob Phillis & Phebe to her & her heirs for Ever I Give to My Wife Mary Thompson One fether bed & furniture which She Shall chuse-- I Give to My wife Mary Thompson One Side Saddle & her choice of My Two Mares also all yarn cotton and homespun [--?--] in my house I Give to My Son Robert Thompson three Negro Slaves to Witt George Tom & Great Soll if in Case My Son Robert Thompson Should Die before Comes to the age of 21 years Or Without Lawfull heir then I Give the Said Negro Girl Called Great Soll to My Wife Mary Thompson & her heirs for Ever-- if My Son Robert Should Die before he comes to the age of 21 years or Without Lawful heir then I Give the Negro Boy Called George to Mary Fullington Daughter of Methias Fullington and her heirs for Ever-- If My Son Robert Thompson Should hapen to Die before he comes to the age of 21 years or Without Lawfull heir then I give the Said Negro called Tom to James Thompson son of James Thompson to him & his heirs for Ever-- I Do hereby Nominate and appoint my Loveing Friends Methias Fullington John Leiws junr & Henry Bonner Extors of This My Last Will & Testatiment revokeing & annuling all Other Wills by Me heretofore Made In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Sitt my hand & Seale this 3d Day August 1755. Signed Sealed & Deliverd. In the Presence of Micajah Bunch Thomas Luten Junr William [his mark] Jones John [his mark] Thompson John Thompson's will Letters issued the fifteenth December 1755 John Thompsons Last Will Recorded in the Secretarys Office in Book No. 9. folio 100. 5 Copy Sheets. Chowan" [Note: Transcribed from a photocopy take from two sources including an included typewritten copy, consisting of two (2) typewritten pages, attached to the original hand written copy consisting of three (3) papes, located in the State of North Carolina Archives. Source Citation: http://www.archives.DCR.state.nc.us.] Additional Comments: Of interest, the following marriages are so noted in the file: "Chowan County, NC-County Index to North Carolina Marriages Database" contributed by Marceline Beem ,marceline@mindspring.com) For more information, search the actual database @ http://tn-3.rootsweb.com/~ncarolina/marriages.html. John Thompson married Mary Fullerton, August 4, 1744. Mary Thompson (widow) married John Lewis, Jr., 19 Nov. 1755. Source Citation: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/chowan/vitals/chowan.txt. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/chowan/wills/thompson238gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb