ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - Sigby or Sigley Curtis, 1829
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SIGBY or Sigley CURTIS WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1

In the name of God amen.  State of North Carolina, Onslow County.  I, Sigby 
Curtis being sick of body but of good sound memory calling to remembrance the 
uncertainty of this trancetory (?) life & that all flesh must yield to death 
where it shall please God to call for it.
First of all, I recommend my soul to Almighty God who first gave it me & my 
body to be buried in a most Christian like manner as shall suit my Executors 
whom I shall hereafter mention.  I will & desire that my funeral charges shall 
be well & truly paid with all my just debts in a convenient time after my 
death.
ITEM  I lend to my beloved wife & child all of my estate during her life time 
or widowhood & then for my child to have it both personal & individual.  I 
also nominate & appoint my beloved wife & my worthy friend Thomas Ennet to 
this my last will & testament revoking and disannulling all other will or 
wills heretofore by me made & this to be my last will & testament in witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affix my seal in the presence of
Test Jos. M. Ennet
Test. Richard Bruce

(signed) Sigby Curtis

Onslow County, Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, May term 1829.
Then was this will of Sigby Curtis approved for probate & the executor thereof 
duly proved in open court by the oath of Richard Bruce, on of the subscribing 
witnesses & Mary Curtis came into court & qualified as Executrix thereto 
agreeably to law.
Danl Ambrose, clk