LINCOLN COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Samuel Arthur, 14 Jul 1794
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Samuel Arthur b: ca 1745 d: 1794 Lincoln Co., NC
He is listed in the 1790 census.  What follows is his last will & testament.

WILL OF SAMUEL ARTHUR - Lincoln Co NC 1794
In the Name of God Amen this fortenth Day of July 1794 
I Samuel Arthur of Lincoln County in the State of North
Carolina Being Very Sick and Weak in Body But of perfect 
mind and memorty thanks be Given unto God therefore Calling 
to mind the Mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is 
Appointed for men once to Die do make and ordain this My 
Last Will and Testament that is to Say Principally and first
of all I Give and Recommend my Soul in to the hands of the
Almighty that Gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth 
to Be Buried in a Decent Christian manor and Buriel at the 
Descretion of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the General 
Reserection I Shall Receive the Same Again by the Mighty power 
of God and as touching such Such Worldly Estate whose it
pleased God Beliefs me in this Life I Give demise and Dispose 
of the Same In the following Maner and form
____Give and Bequath to Mary my Dearly and Beloved Wife Whome
I chose for Executer With Joseph Gladen I bequeath to my wife 
the third of all my Estate as fore as a Branch on the south 
Side of the Long Branch and on the North Side of the aforeSaid 
Bunch (?) Branch Running up the hollow of the Said Branch after 
paying all my Just Debs and to my Son John Arthur I Give and
Bequeth all the Land from the Aforesaid Branches Down the Creek 
Included in the Mill and all the Cleared (?) Land in Both Sides 
of the Creek with fifty Rod Wide of the Land of one hundred Eakers 
Joining Morrisses Survey ____.  I Do Bequeath to my Second Son 
Joseph Arthur after his Mothers Marage or Decece that part or 
parcel of Land from the aforesaid Branches up the Creek Including
my Improvement and Likewise Samuel Arthur my Son the Remainder of 
the one hundred that Joines Morrises Survey   I Bequeath to Joseph
One Sorral Horse and Riffel Gun I Likewise Bequeath one Sorral Mair 
to Mary my Wife and the Remainder of My Movable Estate to be Sold 
at publick Sail and Divided Equaly Between all my Children Willed 
and Bequeathed Retified and Confirmed this and no others to be my
Last Will and testement I witness Whereof I have hearunto Set my
hand and Said the Day and Year above Writen Signed Sealed and 
puplished and Declared by the Said Samuel Arthur as his last Will 
and Testament in the presence of the subscribers
       Alexander Collins, Mary Gladen        Samuel Arthur
His mark a big S