Iredell County NcArchives Wills.....Watts, William October 11, 1789
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Source: Will Bk 1, Iredell County, North Carolina
Written: October 11, 1789

Iredell Co., North Carolina 
Will Bk. Vol. 1
pg. 240
	
In the name of God Amen I William Watts of Iredell County & State of North
Carolina being through the abundant mercy and goodness of God though weak in
body though yet of A sound and perfect understanding and memory do constitute
this my Last Will and Testament and desire it may be received by all as such -
First I bequeath my soul to he that gave it and my body to the earth as to my
burial I devise it may be decent at the discretion of my dear Wife and my
executors who I doubt not will manage it with all requisite prudence as to my
worldly estate I will and positively order that all my debts be paid. First I
give and bequeath to my dear and loving Wife the whole management of house
furniture and plantation with all the profits rising from the same Together
with as much of the stock viz horses and Cattle hogs and sheep during her
Widowhood to superintend and manage to the best advantage for the Use of all
my Children and that she and the other executors hereafter mentioned dis to
act in conjunction for the good of the whole of the legatees and when my
loving son Thomas comes to mature age he is have the full half of the
Plantation I now live on together with all necessary plantation tools Viz.
ploughs harrows Waggon hoes horse geers Etc. that is now then in or belonging
to the plantation Viz. When the sd. Thomas comes of mature age and the whole
of my plantation at my Wifes marriage or decease to devolve to the said Thomas
but of the sd. Thomas or any of the rest of my Children should die under age
then Quoto(?) to be equally divided amongst the residue. I give to my loving
Wife the negro wench known by the name of Dinah and her first born child Elley
during her widowhood or death as also negro Hercules to be kept likewise on
the plantation during her widowhood likewise for the good of the whole of the
legatees. I give and bequeath to my son John his smith tools as also his horse
& saddle Etc.  And I give to my loving son William fifty pounds lawful money
of the first that is collected of outstanding debts and inclusive of any
accounts he can or may bring hereafter it is also my will and pleasure that
after my Thomas comes of age that my wife and any of my daughters who might
choose to live unmarried shall have the full use and benefit of the back sheds
without the control of any person as also the furrage of a cow and one acre of
good ground for flax to each - it is also my will that all of my unmarried
daughters be put on an equal footing in cash or value of those of them that is
married and then the remainder to be equally divided at the discretion of my
executors and that my sons William and John is to have A two fold dividend as
also my son James the same and if wife should incline to marry she is get A
Childs part and that part to be at her own disposal marry or not and that at
her marriage of disease the whole of my unbeqeauthed (stain) property to be
divided as A above directed I also constitute my loving wife, my son James and
my nephew William Watts my executors of this my last will and testament in
witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 11th day of October
in the year of our lord 1789.

William Watts (seal)

Witness
James McCulloch
William Steel
John (his mark) Graham, Jurat
 

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