Craven County NcArchives Wills.....Shine, Daniel 1757 ************************************************ 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: Nola Duffy nduffy@patch.net September 17, 2011, 8:47 pm Source: N C Wills & Inventories - Grimes Written: 1757 DANIEL SHINE'S WILL. North Carolina, Craven County. In The Name of God Amen The 9th Day of May, 1757. I, Daniel Shine, being Sick but of Perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God therefore. I make this my Last Will and Testament, first of all, I give my Soule into the hands of God that gave it, and my Body to the Earth to be Buried after a Christian like Manner at the Discretion of my Executors is as Thuse(?) Item, I give and Bequeath unto my Son, John Shine, Out of Love and Good Will, One English Shilling. Item, I give and Bequeath unto my Son, Thos. Shine, One Horse Named Roger, One Bead and furniture, and half a Dozen Puter Plats and Two Sisable Dishes, and One Sisable Iron Pot new; and One Negro Fellow Named Tow, after my Debts are Paid, and all my Wareing Apparell. Item, I give and Bequeath unto my Son, William Shine, when he Comes to the Age of Twenty One years, One Negro Gurl Named Judah, and One Negro Boy Named Gabriel, and One Horse Named Dolphin, And One Bead yt is Called my Bead and furniture, and One Pot, and Six Puter Plates and Two Sisable Dishes. Item, I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter, Elizabeth Vaughan, out of Love and Good Will, One English Shilling. Item, I give and Bequeath unto my Son, James Shine, Out of Love and Good Will, all the Rest of my Personall and Rale Estate as Negroes, Lands, horses, Cattle, Hogs, Household furniture. And Out Standing Debts, And I make and Ordain my hole and Sole Executors, James Shine and John Oliver, Revocking and Disanulling all Other Wills and Lagacis before made by me. Deniel Shine (Seal) Sealed, Signed, and Published, Pronounced and Declared, by the Said Daniel Shine, as his Last Will and Testament in the Pres- ence of us the Subscribers: Green. John Williamson. Charles Shinewolf. Craven County ss. August Court 1757. Present his Majestys Justices: Then was the Last Will and Testament of Daniel Shine Exhibited into Court and Proved at the Oath of Charles Shinewolf, Who Swor that he Saw the Deed. Sign, Seal, Publish and Declare the Within to be his Last Will and Testament. And that to the Best of his Knowledg he was of Sound Mind and Disposing Memory; and that he also saw the Other Evidences Sign as Concuring Evidences with him: at the Same time Appeared James Shine, Executor therein Mentioned, and Qualified by Taking the Exors. Oath. Ordered that Mr. Secy, have Notice that Letters Testamentory Issue Accordingly. Test. Peter Conway. D. C. C. Copied from Original Will, filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/craven/wills/shine2912wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb