Guilford-Alamance County NcArchives Wills.....Major, Thomas 1789
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Source: Personal
Written: 1789
Recorded: 1789

Thomas Major ~ 1789

[Thomas Major's Will, dated January 13, 1789, states that he was "of Alamance 
Congregation" and a Planter. His wife was Margaret McLean Major, daughter of 
John McLean from Ireland. Both Thomas and Margaret Major came from Ireland to 
Pennsylvania, then to North Carolina. They are buried at Alamance Presbyterian 
Church cemetery. Thomas Major's Will is shared here in its entirety:] 

"In the Name of God, Amen. I Thomas Major of Alimance Congregation Guilford 
County State of North Carolina, planter, being indisposed in body but of a 
perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto God, caling unto man the 
mortality of my body, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in 
the manner following. I recommend my soul unto the hand of almighty God that 
gave it, and my body I recommend unto the earth, to be buried in decent 
Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors, and as touching such 
worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give 
devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form, viz.: First, 
I give & bequeath to Margaret my dearly beloved wife my mare & saddle & all my 
houshold furniture & two cows. Also I give to my beloved Grandson Thomas 
Peasley the sum of ten pounds lawfull money, to my grand daughter Elenor 
Johnson I give & bequeath the sum of twenty pounds like lawful money. I 
constitute my two sons by law, viz Robert Peasley & George Stuart to be 
Executors of this my last Will & testament. I likewise constitute & appoint 
Cols. John Peasley & Marshall McLane to put or cause to be put the above 
bequeathed money out to interest at or before the year one thousand seven 
hundred & ninety for the use of the above named legatees. I do herby utterly 
disallow & revoke all former testaments wills legacies and executors ratifying 
and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. In witness 
whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of January in the 
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine 1789.
[witnessed by]
Isaiah McBride
Thomas McLean
[signed] Thomas Major 

[A - 0239, admitted to probate February 1789, Minute Docket No. 2, 
pp. 26, 33, 61, 67]




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