CRAVEN COUNTY, NC - Will - Archelaus Weeks, 1778.

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Transcribed by James Matthew A. Lipsey on 2 July 1997 from a Xerox copy 
made on 24 June 1997 from the original on file at the North Carolina State 
Archives at Raleigh.

            The Last Will and Testament of Archelaus Weeks

Craven County, North Carolina
Dated 4 June 1778
The original is at the North Carolina State Archives at Raleigh.
Uncertain readings are underlined. [format lost in text conversion --er]

In the Name of God amen, I Archelaus Weeks of Craven County and State of 
North Carolina being sick and weak in Body through though of sound mind and 
memory thanks be to God for it and calling to mind the uncertainty of this 
Life do make and declare this my last Will and Testament in Manner 
following, that is to say, I Will that my Body be Interred at the 
Descression of my Executor hereafter Named and my Just Debts and funeral 
Charges paid--

Imprimui    I Will that so much of my Estate be sold by my Executor & Exors 
hereafter Named as will satisfy my Just Debts, of such part as they may 
think least Damage--

Item    I Will that all the residue of my Estate be Valued by My Executrix 
and Executors and divided Equally in three Equal parts unless my Wife 
should prove with Child then in four parts and one of such parts so divided 
I Give and Bequeath to my Well Beloved Wife Abigail, and that such dividing 
do Extend to all my Estate real and personal, unless otherwise directed in 
this Will hereafter--

Item    I Will that my Negroe Woman Hamack be in my Daugter Elizabeths part 
at the rate that she will be Valued--

Item    I Give and bequeath to my Son in Law Gordius Ricketson a Three Year 
Old red Heifer To him his Heirs [and assigns] for ever--

Item    I Will that a Lot of Ground I have in New Town in Onslow County be 
Sold in part to pay my Debts by my Executrix and Exors--

Lastly, I do Nominate and appoint my Well Beloved Wife Abigail my Executrix 
and my friends Emmanuel Simmons Esqr and Isaac Burnet Executor of this my 
last Will & Testament hereby revoking all other Wills by me Made Sealed In 
Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal this fourth day of June 
in the Year 1778--

Signed Sealed published and
Declared as his last Will       }
and Testament in
Presence of us                                     Archs Weeks {Seal}
Lemuel Hatch                                    Abigail Week Qualifed as
Edmund Howard                                      Exor~ thereunto--
Edw: Whitty

[the following appears on the front of this Will] "Capt Arch L Weeks Last 
Will" Recorded in the Clerks Office of Jones County in book Anno 1 & page 
(195) one hundred ninety five J.T. Bryan CC