Newhanover County NcArchives Wills.....Cunningham, Thomas 1792
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Source: N C Archives
Written: 1792

NC Archives - New Hanover Record of Wills
Microfilm No. C.070.80001

Written: 1 Sep 1792

In the name of God Amen I Thomas Cunningham of Wilmington, Planter, being of 
sound health and memory do make this my last will and testament

It is my will and devise that five feet of an alley be (crease in paper) as 
convenient as may be to the after bequeathed lot. Then I will and desire that 
forty feet back including the house where Mr Joshua Potts is now a resident 
of, at the expiration of the lease, be rented for the maintenance of a Negro 
woman of mine named Rachel and the maintenance and education of her three 
mulatto children named Mary, Kitty and Chrissy, and the child of which she is 
now pregnant

I will and devise unto Mary Kirkwood eighty feet fronting the alley and 
running twenty feet including the house on said lot where Danuel Duffie is now 
a resident 

I will and divise to Anna Jane Kirkwood thirty feet fronting the alley and 
twenty eight feet back being part of the already mentioned lot

I will and devise unto Robert Alex Kirwood son of the late John Kirkwoood 
father to Mary and Annie Jane already mentioned fifty acres of land on Lee's 
creek lying between Henry Toomer's land and the plantation where I now occupy 
beginning at a gum on said Toomer's land and running along his line two 
hundred and fifty two poles to three pines

I give and devise to Elizabeth Robeson thirty feet fronting the alley and 
twenty eight feet the remainder of said lot to be rented yearly to Rachel and 
her three childen already named and the child of which she is now pregnant 
with with all the rest of the land lying between Lee's creek and Deep inlet 
creek between Rachel and her three children

I will and devise Negroe men named Virgil and Quash together with my Negro 
woman named Fanny who live on the plantation where I now reside on Lee's creek 
to work for the maintenance of Rachel and children during the natural life of 
said Negroes

I will and devise that Rachel and her children should be emancipated or set 
free immediately after my decease

Executors: Trusty friends Joshua Potts and James Walher 
Wit: Henry Hooks, Jos Bland

Proved March Term 1797


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