MARTIN COUNTY, NC - Will - Will of Marcom Manning, 1792. ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing frernet, 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, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Ron Haislip ======================================================================== Will of Marcom Manning, Oct 18, 1792 Martin County Courthouse In the Name of God Amen. I, Marcom Manning of the County of Martin & State of North Carolina being weak of body but of sound and perfect mind & memory _______ [illegible] be God calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed unto all men once to die do make & ordain this & no other to be my last Will and Testament in manner & form. Following -- Fifth and Principally I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it me} And as touching such worldly goods & estate is herewith it hath pleased God to "blife" me I give and dispose of them in manner and form following} I lend unto William Manning as Son as a tennant for and during his natural life the plantation whereon he now lives and five hundred acres of land thereunto belonging and after his death I give and bequeth unto the mail _______ [illegible] of William Manning my said Son _______ [illegible] of his body the land & plantation hath mentioned to the aforesaid William if any such "---------" be and for want of such to and bequeth said land & premises unto my other two sons Reuben Manning & Marcom Manning to them and their heirs forever. I give and bequeth unto Reuben Manning my son the plantation where I now live and eight hundred acres of land joining the same and my Negro man named London to him & to his heirs forever. I give and bequeth unto Marcom Manning my son my plantation in the part of the swamp below me and known by the name of the Fork Plantation as far as the branch on bottom below the plantation where I now live and my fork Plantation quite _______ [illegible] from line to line and the land and plantation I bought of "Spiles" Holland where T_______ [illegible] South now lives and three hundred acres of land in the fork of the Stear pen & House pen branch to the same "mares and lefs" And my Negro man named Jeremiah to him and his heirs forever} And the rest of my estate it is my will and desire should equally be divided between and among all my children William Manning, Reuben Manning, Marcom Manning my sons & Nance Page, Margaret Page, Martha Jackson & Dinah Philpott, Kezia Manning, Rebecca Manning, Mary Manning my daughters except as to the cattle and hogs Nancy Page and Margaret Page have had to their full. I have and do hereby make and ordain constitute and appoint Edmund Andrews, Nathan Mayo my friend and Rueben Manning my son Executors of this my Last Will and Testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto lay my hand Seal this Eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety two. Signed Sealed Published & declared by Marcom Manning the Testator in the presence of Thos Grimes Abraham Jackson (x---his mark) Marcom Manning (x---his mark) Seal