State of North Carolina County of Mecklenburg ************************************************************************ File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara Brown USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. Return to the NCGenWeb Archives Table of Contents http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm#NC ************************************************************************ October 13th _____1813 In the name of God Amen. I Samuel Brown of the State of North Carolina & County of Mecklenburg, being now in a sick & low condition but sound in mind and memory & calling to mind that it is appointed to all men once to die. Do make & constitute this my last will and testament, revoking all others. 1st I commit my spirit to God who gave it, and my body to buried in decent Christian manner. 2ndly I will that all my lawful debts be punctually paid out of the proceeds of such parts of my property as may not herein after be mentioned by my executors. 3rdly I will so much money to be raised out of my estate & appropriated to the use of my friend James Jameson as shall be necessary to defray the expense of procuring a deed for the mills and lands thereto attached for which I stand bound & for which, mills & lands I have received ample value, and that he shall procure said deed in his own name ____ land has not been run. Desire it to begin at a cherry tree near the last corner of the old fields & run the berth & bounding ____ing ___ntry there of. And that he, the said James Jameson be hereby bound in his own name, to make to Robert Shatwood and Mitchel Bradley, severally, goods & sufficient deeds of conveyance, for the several tracts to them belonging out of the original, as soon after he shall, procure it, as they or either of them shall ___ance the sum or sums to my executors, as they or either of them stand bound for, to me. 4thly I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Nancy, my manor house & all the lands she may have use for raising the family during her life or widowhood, after either of which, they shall be in the power of my executor, to use in the best advantage of my children ___lly, till they respectively come to the age of twenty-one, excepting my sons who share my lands & likewise give & bequeath to my beloved wife all my cattle during her life or widowhood and afterward to the use of my children equally. Also one home of her choice, her saddle, two feather beds & furniture with all her clothing forever. 5thly I give & bequeath to my two sons James & William the whole of the lands on which I live, about three hundred acres, to be equally divided between them, taking quality and quantity into consideration, and the mansion house, to belong to William. I also give & bequeath to my son James one horse & saddle, of his choice, after my wife chooses. I will & bequeath to my three daughters Jane, Esther & Sally together with the infant not yet born, an equal share of my estate not otherwise desposed of in the above will & testament. Lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my brother James Brown & my wife Nancy executors of this my last will and testament. In testimony where of I here into set my hand & affix my seal, the date above written. mark Samuel X Brown (seal) Signed in the presence of my family John ____?_