GATES COUNTY, NC - Will - Palatiah Blanchard, 1819

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Transcribed and contributed by Renee Blanchard Haynes. From Gates Co. 
Courthouse; Gatesville, NC.

                   Palatiah Blanchard, October 12, 1819

State of North Carolina ­ Gates County ( In the name of God Amen) I 
Paletiah Blanchard of the County & State affsd. Being of sound & perfect 
mind & memory blessed be God for the same do this twelth day of October 
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred & Nineteen make & 
Publish this my last will & testament in manner following that is to say 
my will & desire is that all my Just debts be paid I give the remainder 
of my Estate in the following manner ---

First I lend the use of all my household & kitchen furniture Plantation 
& Plantation Utensils & all my stock of every kind unto my loving wife 
Dorcas Blanchard during her widow or untill my son Easton Blanchard 
arives to of age for the use of raising & schooling my youngest children 
& then to be equally divided between my loving wife Dorcas Blanchard & 
my three Daughters Elizabeth , Sarah and Mary Blanchard to them & their 
heirs. Also I give unto my loving wife all my crops of corn peas 
potatoes & fodder now on hand for the above use of raising & schooling 
of my children.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my son Easton Blanchard the land & 
plantation whereon I now live beginning at the road runing up the cabbin 
branch through the plantation to Benjamin Blanchard line to him & his 
heirs.

I give unto my son Henry Blanchard one hundred & ten acres of land 
beginning at George Suttons line running No. 52 East 33 chains to a pine 
stump from thence to John B Waltons line so as to contain one hundred & 
ten acres of land to him & his heirs. ---

I give unto my son Robert Blanchard all the remainder of my land whereon 
I now live lying between Easton and Henry Blanchard lines to him & his 
heirs. ---

I give unto my son Jethro Blanchard seventy-three acres of land known by 
the name of the Betsey place to him & his heirs. ---

I give unto my son Frederick Blanchard seventy-three acres of land known 
by the name of Mary place to him & his heirs ­ which he has a Deed for.

I give unto my son John Blanchard seventy three acres of land known by 
the name of the Mehala place which he has a deed for to him & his heirs.

I give unto my Daughter Elizabeth Blanchard one note of Jethro Blanchard 
the sum of fifty Dollars to her & her heirs.

I give unto my Daughter Sarah Blanchard one note of Frederick Blanchard 
the sum of Fifty dollars to her & her heirs.

I give unto my daughter Mary Blanchard one note of John Blanchard the 
sum of fifty dollars to her and her heirs.

Lastly I hereby nominate Constitute & appoint my loving friend George 
Sutton & my son Frederick Blanchard my sole Executors to this my last 
will & Testament & I also do hereby utterly disalow &dis anull all other 
testaments will retifying & confirming this to be my last will and 
testament. In Witness whereof I have here unto st my hand and seal this 
twelth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred 
& nineteen 

                           Palatiah Blanchard (Seal)

Signed Sealed published and Declared to be my last will & Testament in 
presence of us 
William Blanchard Junr (Jurat)
Jamima Sutton (her X mark) 

(State of North Carolina Gates County) February County Court of Pleas 
1820
The last will of Palatiah Blanchard decd was exhibited unto court by 
George Sutton & Frederick Blanchard the Executors therein appointed and 
proved by the oath of William Blanchard Junr. A subscribing witness 
thereto and Ordered to be recorded at the same time the said Executors 
was duly qualified for that office. 

                                        Test J. Sumner (initials)