GREENE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - William Bryant, 30 Oct 1772 ==================================================================== 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Marble mmarble@erols.com ==================================================================== WILL OF WILLIAM BRYANT Located in the Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers in the Manuscript Division at East Carolina University, Joyner Library - abstracted by Martha Mewborn Marble My thanks to the library for permission to place this on the North Carolina Archives Website. My copy is not easy to read and the original was in pretty bad shape Original Will of WILLIAM BRYANT of the County of Dobbs - 30 October 1772 - beloved wife should have use of plantation where I now live and the water mill and the plantation joining it and after her decease, I give this plantation to my well beloved son WILLIAM BRYANT. To my beloved son JOHN BRYANT that plantation where EPHRAIM PETTYPOOL formerly lived on the SS of Sandy Run. To my beloved son THOMAS BRYANT, a plantation that lies on the NS of Sandy Run that I purchased of EPHRAIM PETTYPOOL and after the decease of my wife all my blacksmith tools. To my beloved son BENJAMIN BRYANT a plantation - I can't read the name on my copy - that someone formerly lived. To my daughter HILLARY BRYANT the plantation formerly belonging to WILLIAM MCHENRY ? (He never names his wife). Exec RICHARD MOYE and BENJAMIN BRYANT WIT GEORGE MOYE, JOHN BENTLEY NOTE: This is very close to the Pitt/Greene border close to Lang's Crossroads but the will indicates William lived in what is today Greene Co.