Onslow County NcArchives Wills.....Loyd, Joseph December 1, 1781
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Source: Nc Archives
Written: December 1, 1781

The Will of Joseph Lloyd, Onslow County, NC 1781


(This will is damaged.. It was folded in the center and is much worn and has 
separated into two pieces with some of the middle missing. Also some words are 
very hard to decipher)

IN THE NAME of GOD AMEN, the first day of December in the year of our Lord God 
one thousand seven hundred & Eighty one, I Joseph Loyd of the County of Onslow 
and State of North Carolina, Planter, being weak in body but of perfect mind 
and memory thanks be to God, therefore calling to mind the mortality of the 
body, Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye, Do make and ordain 
this my Last Will and Testament that is to say First of all, I give and 
Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it, as For my body I 
Recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Cristian Like and Discreet (?) 
Manner at the Descretion (?) Of Suzaner Loyd who I appoint Soul Executrix with 
Thomas Mashborn Executor Nothing Doubting but at a general resurrection(?) I 
shall receive the same again at the mighty Power of God and as touching such 
word. (-----) it has (-----) God to bless me with in this life.
I give devise and dispose of the same in Following manner and form (-------) 
it is my will and I do order that in the First Place all my Just Debts and 
Funaral Charges be Paid and satisfyed.
Item: I lend my Beloved Wife Suzaner Loyd my Plantation During her Naturel 
Life.
Item: I give unto my son Joseph Loyd one hundred and twenty six acres of Land 
the upper part of the Trac of Land on which I now Live and part of a New 
Survey.
I also give Two Cowes and Calves, one (case?) Of bottles, one (medd– gig?), 
hot iron, one (-------), two large puter Basons & three puter (plates?).
Item: I give unto my son Daniel Loyd (—) hundred acres of Land it being the 
other part of my af. Land, two Cowes and Calves, one Large Iron Pot, hooks and 
Tramel(?) With it & one Larage puter Dish, two Large Puter Basons & three 
puter Plates.
(Missing section containing two or more lines, cannot be deciphered)
Item: I give unto my Daughter Suzanner Loyd one feather (bed) (rest of line is 
missing)
Item: I give unto my Daughter Rebeaca Loyd one Bead and Furniture & one cow & 
calf.
Item: I give unto my Daughter Mary Loyd one Feather Bead (bed) and Furniture, 
one cow & calf, one Small Iron Pot, one Brass Spice (mortar & pestle?), one 
Box Iron & Heaters (?)
Item: I give unto my Son Thomas Loyd twenty shillings (--------).
Item: I give unto my Daughter Elizabeth Mashborn twenty shillings (-------).
Item: I give unto my Daughter Sara(h Fisher?) Twenty shillings (-----).
Item: I give unto my Daughter Anne Jones twenty shillings (-----).
Item: I Lend all the Remainder of my Estate that is not given in Ligeses
(legacies?) to my Wife During her Widohood, and after her widohood to be 
Equaly Divided amongth my Four Youngest Children Rebeacah, Joseph, Daniel, & 
Mary, and Nothing to be sold and I (most of line missing along the fold) to be 
my Last Will and Testament .

The Day and Date above written                                               
Joseph Loyd (his own signature,
                                                                            
Written very large, and a hand-drawn seal)

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in Presents of us:
J. L. Kibble
Elisabeth Kibble 

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