GATES COUNTY, NC - Will - Aaron Blanshard 1779. ====================================================================== 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: Renee B. Haynes Feb. 1999 ======================================================================== Transcribed by Renee B. Hayes Will of Aaron Blanshard 1779 In the name of God Amen in 28 day of January in the year of ouer Lord Christ 1779. I Aaron Blanshard being very Sick and week in Body but of a Perfect mind and memery Thanks be to God for it. and Calling to the uncertainly of this Transitery Life and that all flesh must yield when it shall Please God to Call. I do make ordain and appoint this my Last Will and Testamen in Maner and form following. First and principally I give my soul to almighty God that Give it to me in shore and Certain hope to Receive full parden of all my sins past through merits meditation and Intneesien? of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and my body to be buried in such Christian like manner as my Excutors hereafter named shall think fit to appoint. Secondly I do by thes prisets frustrate and make null and void all other or form will or wills or Testements by me peclared or made either by word or writing and this to be taken for my Last will and Testament and no other and thirdly my will and pleasure is that all such debts and duties that I owe in Right or Consicente to any manner of Person whatsoever be Contented and paid by my Executors named in Conconsient time after my Decease and no as touching such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased God for beyond my Deserts to bestow upon me I give and Dispose of the same in manner and form following. Item I Give unto my son Demsey Blanshard the Plantation and land wheare one he now Lives be it one Hundred ackers more or les and Further I give to Son Demsey -.one parsel of Puter one Pot one Gunn and my will and Pleasure is that he have nomore of my Estate. Item I Give unto my Son Aaron Blanshard (can't read)-.and Land wheare one he now lives be it one Hundred ackers more or less and Further I Give to Aaron Blanshard one Fether bead and furnetur a parsel of Puter one poot one Gun which he has alread and my will and Pleasure is that he have no more of my Estate, Item I Give unto my Daughter Huldah Laeter (Lassiter?) one Fether bead and a parsel of Puter one poot which she has alredey Received and my will and Plesure is that She have no more of my Estate, Item I Give unto my Daughter Leah Blanshard one fether Bead and furnitur a parsel of puter one poot if in Case She shuld die without are then the Right of things above named Return unto hur two Brothers Henry and Paltiah Blanshard, Item I Give unto my Son Bene Blanshard the Plantion whear one I give to him and his Hairs and if in Case he die without Hairs that the Right of the land and Plantion return tohis Brother Barne Blanshard. Item I Give unto my Son Barne Blanshard one Hundred ackers of Land lying upon the Swamp above his Brother Bene Blanshard Land be the same one Hundred ackers more or less .. and my will and Pleasure is that if my Son Barne Blanshard die without Hair that the Right of his Land return to his Brother Bene Blanshard if in case both the Brothers shall die with out Hair as before named my will and pleasure is that thear Sister Mahalah Blanshard shall have the Right of both thear Land and Item I Give unto my Son Henry Blanshard one Hundred ackers of Land be the same more or less lying upon a branch Comonly by the name of the Caben Branch and thence along a line of marked trees to the head of a branch called the Long Branch and my will and pleasure is in case my Son Henery Blanshard shall die having no hair that the Right of his Land Return to his Brother Paltiah Blanshard and his Hairs, Item I Give unto my Son Paltiah Blanshard one Hundred ackers of Land lying upon the the head of the Indian Swomp be the same more or les to he and his Hairs for ever now in Case that my Son Paltiah Blanshard shall die having no Hair my will and Pleasur is that the Right ot his Land desend to his Brother Henory Blanshard, if in Case both the sais Henary and Paltiah Blanshard shall die having no Hair my will and Plasure is that the Right of the thear Land Desend to there Sister Leah Blanshard to she and hur Hairs forever, Item I Give to my beloved wife Elisabeth Blanshard the use of all my Personall Estate not before Given to rase my small Children upon and the use of the Plantion and Land wheair one I now live and after her dece (decease)? to be Equally divided amongst my small Children to wit: Heanry, Paltiah, Bene, Barne, Mahalah. Lastly I nominate and ordain and appoint my well beloved wife Elisabeth Blanshard to be my whole and Soule Excutors to see this my last will an Testament duly Executed and permormed acording to Law in Witness whereof I have heair unto set my hand and fixt my Seal the day and year first above writtin. Signed Declared and Pronouced in the Presence of us Aaron Blanshard (Seal) Testes Amos Blanshard Absolom Blanshard Amarias Blanshard. State of North Carolina Gates County. August Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1779 The above and within Witnesses? Was in open Court duly Aproved by the oaths of Absolom Blanshard & Amerias Blanshard two of the Subsribing Witnesses thereto and on motion was ordered to be Recorded Teste Law Baker (initials)