GREENE COUNTY, NC - Will - Mathew Fields, 1883.

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                        Will of Mathew Fields
                         September 15, 1883
                         Source: NC Archives

North Carolina, Greene County

In the name of God amen, I Mathew Fields of the state & county above
named being mindful of the uncertainty of life & certainty of death &
being of sound mind do publish & declare this to be my last will &
testament.

Item first - I devise & give all of my real estate adjoining the lands
of Richard Hardy Octavas Taylor & others containing one hundred & fifty
acres more or less situated in Greene County to the following named
persons James Wade & Narcisa Wade.

Item second - I give & bequeath all of my personal property of every
discription to James Wade & Narcisa Wade.

Item third - I herby appoint my friend F.B. Fields executor to this my
last will & testament & direct him to pay all of my honest debts &
burrial expenses.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 15th day of
Sept 1883.

Mathew Fields (Seal)

Subscribed in the presents of,
John T. Wooten
Elijah Taylor
Robert Harper

State of North Carolina, Greene County
In the Supreme Court, April 29, 1889

A paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Mathew
Fields deceased is exhibited before me in open court by F.B. Fields the
executor therein mentioned and the due execution thereof by the said
Mathew Fields is proven by the oath and examination of Elijah Taylor and
Robert Harper two of the subscribing witnesses thereto. Is is ordered
and ? by the court that the said paper writing and every ? and clause
thereof is the last will and testament of the said Mathew Fields
deceased and the same is ordered to be recorded and filed. And therefore
the said F.B. Fields the executor qualified as such by taking the oath
prescribed by law.

D.W. Patrick Clerk
Superior Court, Greene Co.