MOORE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Richard Cheek Will - 1836

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Richard Cheek Will 

In the name of God amen
I Richard Cheek of the State of North Caorlina and County of 
Moore being of sound and perfect mind and memory calling to 
mind that is is appointed for all men once to die do think paper 
before my disolution to dispose of what property it has pleased God 
to bless me with in this world, do therefore make and publish and 
proclaim the following to be my last will and testiment.

To wit to my daughter Sarah J Williams bequeath twenty five cents 
in addition to what I have heretofore given her and no more.

To my daughter Marthy I give and bequeath twenty five cents in 
addition to what I have heretofore given her and no more.

To my daughter Elizabeth I give and bequeath and devise one 
hunderd and fifty acres of land where I now live.  Two boros and 
cales her share of my stock, one ? mare and one ? horse now in my 
possession, two plows, three weeding hoes, two pots, one dutch 
oven, on skillet, one ? all the household furnitre on the shelves and 
in the cupboards as it now stands, one clock one ?, 1 walnut table, 
one pine table, two beds bead steads and furniture, all the corn, oats, 
fodder shucks and dtraw on hand, three pairs of pot hooks on e pot 
rack, my whole stock of hogs two cupboards tow club ? ?? and five 
dogs all the feather on hand.

To my son John Cheek I give bequeath and devise one hundred and 
fifty acres of land more or less where he now lives and a part of the 
tract I now lived on beginning at the mouth of the spring branch and 
running up said branch to the spring thence a direct line from the 
spring to my upper corner on a read oak, one pot, one broad ? one 
cow and two yearlings, one candle stand.

To my son Richard I give and bequeath twenty five cents in 
addition to what I have heretofore given him and no more

To my son Silas I give and bequeath twenty five cents in addition to 
what I have heretofore given him and no more.

To my daughter Nancy I give and bequeath twenty five cents in 
addition to what I have heretofore given her and no more

To the heirs of my son William desd I give and bequeath twentyfive 
cents in addition to what I have heretofore given their father

To my son Josiah Cheek I give bequeath devise four hundred and 
fifty acres of land lying and being on the south side of Deep river 
one bull, two yearlings, one top, one over, one bed stand and 
furntirue one waggon, one small walnut table

I will and bequeath my black smith tools to my sons John and 
Josiah jointly not to be devaded but by them to be used for their 
mutual benefit

All the property I own at my death not in this will deposed of I give 
bequeath and devise to my sons John Josiah and my daughter 
Elizabeth to be equally devaded among them

I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my relation and friend 
William Davis sole executor to this my last will and testament in 
witness whereof I have hereunto set my seal this 5th day of Dec AD 
1836
Signed Sealed published and declared in presents of us
Corns Dowd A Shields
Richard his mark X Cheek

Moore county court Feby Term 1837
The above will was duly in open court by the ? of Cornelius Dowd 
and Archibald Shields the ? witnesses there to and in  (very hard to 
read) in Book B page 103, 106 and 105
A.C. Curry CSC