GRANVILLE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Seth Pettypool, Will & Estate, 1789
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In the name of God, Amen. I Seth petty pool of Granville County and State of
North Carolina being weak of body but of perfect sense and memory thanks be
to God therefore Calling to mind the mortality of man and that it is
appointed once for all men to die do make and ordain this my last will and
Testament first I recommend my Soul into the hands of almighty God that gave
it and my Body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian manner at the
discrection of my Executors and as touching my worldly Estate which it hath
pleased God to bless me with I dispose of in the following manner and form
Item I lend my loving wife during her natural life or widowhood the
plantation with part of the Tract of land whereon I live it being that part
of the tract adjoining to the plantation on the south side of the road
supposed to be three hundred & twenty acres with all my household and
kitchin furniture & all the stock of every kind on the said plantation, and
at her death or mariage it is my desire that my daughters Elisabeth petty
pool Mary pettypool Sarah petty pool Jane petty pool nancey petty pool may
have each of them a feather bed & furniture and the remainder of all my
personal Estate to be Equally divided amongst all my children, William petty
pool John petty pool Elisabeth petty pool Mary petty pool Seth petty pool
young petty pool Jessey petty pool Jane petty pool & Nancey petty pool Sarah
petty pool Phillip pettypool & Clayborn petty pool to them and there heirs
forever.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Seth pettypool all my Land on the south
side of Aaron's Creek and one rifled gun to him and his heirs forever
Item I give and bequeath to my son young pettypool on the north side of
Aarons Creek belonging to the said survey that I bequeath to my son Seth
petty pool his aforementioned part beginning at a little field at a branch
on the South side of said Creek running down the said creek to my lower line
being one hundred acres of land more or less to him and his heirs forever.
Item I give and bequeath to my son John pettypool the residue of all that
survey of land above mentioned beginning at the upper side of said little
field at the above mentioned branch running up the said creek and including
the land and plantation where on I formaly lived on to make it one hundred
acres more or less to him and his heirs forever. Item it is my desire that
the land that I lent my wife at her death or mariage shall be equally
divided between three of my sons namely Jessey pettypool Phillip petty pool
and Clayurn petty pool Jesseys part to join the land of my son John's land
to them the said Jessey petty pool Phillip petty pool and Clayburn petty
pool and their heirs forever. I do appoint my sons William petty pool &
young petty pool Executors of this my Last will and Testament Revoking all
other former wills by me written and made and declaring this to be my Last
Will this 23rd day of June 1789.                        Seth Pettypool
his mark
In presence of
James Jones Jurat
William Owin
Philip Voss

Granville County August Court 1789
This Will was duly proven in open court by the oath of James Jones, one of
the subscribing witnesses & was ordered to be recorded.
Test.     A Henderson C C
Will S. Pettypool
Wm Pettypool qualified
Exr

Granville County wills NC CR 044.801.31

A True Invintory of the Estate of Seth Petty Pool desd
Granville County Augt. Court 1789
This Inventory was duly rendered in open court & ordered to be Recorded.
Test. A. Henderson clk

The true Invintory of the Estate of Seth Pettypool
Ds. taken this 4th of August 1789
3 horse beasts 13 head of neat cattle, 9 head of sheep, 2 sows & 17 shotes,
5 fether beds & furniture, 5 chares & 1 frame 2 chests 1 table 3 puter
dishes 7 puter basons 8 puter plates 6 puter spons 4 Erthen [earthen] punch
boles
Six tea cups & sausers 1 quart mugg 1 butter pot 1 glass tumbler 6 knives &
forks 2 iron pots 1 duch oven 1 iron skillit 2 cotton wheals & 2 flax wheals
1 loom 1 hackle 1 candle mold 1 candle stick 2 pare of cotten cards 1 large
glass bottle 1 small ditto 1 pole ax 3 plough hoes 4 hilling hoes 2 bread
hoes 10 bells 1 pare of iron weges (wedges) 1 drawing knife 1 inch orgar
(auger) 1 gouch 1 clipers 1 hammer 1 pare of pinchers 1 pare of nippers 1
rifled gun 1 smooth ditto 2 reel hooks 2 flat smoothing irons 1 mans saddle
1 womans ditto 5 bridles 1 hansaw (handsaw) 5 head of hogs 3 pare of pothoks
             Young Pettypol his mark

CR.044.508.141