Orange County, NC - Wills - Samuel Bumpass, 7 May 1849
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Samuel Bumpass
Orange County, North Carolina
Will Book G, Page 2 & 3

In the name of God Amen
     I Samuel Bumpass of Orange County N.C. being of Sound and perfect
mind and memory blessed be God do this the 7th day of May A.D. 1849
make & publish my last will & testament in manner following namely
First I will that my funeral charges & debts be paid, then I will my
wife Martha the tract of land whereon I live that I purchased from
James R Carrington I also will her the tract of land I purchased of
William Cain Senr also the tract of land I purchase of Moses ?
also the tract of land commonly called the Wilson tract also the tract
of land I purchased of Isaac Laws to her & her assigns forever
I also will my wife Martha twenty negroes as follows
Dick Ned, Bob Edmund, Peter, Dany, Ben, ?, Sim?on Mansuel, Jane, Betha,
Clouie, Harriett Delitha, ?, Charlotte, Chan?, Mariah & Fanny
& their increase forever & her & her heirs or assigns I also will 
my wife Martha all debts due me by account and all my money &
all my notes for money & all my ? of apple trees & all
my plantation tools my waggons & my carriage & all
my house hould furniture & Kitchen tools of every sort also
all my horses hogs, sheep, cows & cattle & all my corn
old & new, all my wheat, all my fodder & oats & all my growing crop of
every sort and the whole of all my estate & land & personal property to
her & her heirs or assigns forever.
I hereby make & ordain my worthy friend Alexander Webb & John B. Leathers
of Orange County Executors of this my last will and testament in witness
whereunto, I the said Samuel Bumpass have this my last will and testament
set my hand & seal the day & year above written
Test                                      Saml Bumpass (seal)
   Benton Ray

                                   Orange County Court Nov. Term 1851
The foregoing paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament
of Samuel Bumpass deceased was produced in open court and thereupon it
was proved by the oaths of Jno Hall ? & DC Parrish that the said 
paper writing was found among the valuable papers of the said Samuel Bumpass
after his death & it ? the proved to the satisfaction of the Court by
the oaths of D.C. Parrish, ?. A. McMann? & Abner Parker that all & every
fact of the said writing was in the proper hand writing of the said 
Samuel Bumpass decd
whereupon the said paper was declared by the court ? to be duly proved
according to law to be, & it was accordingly declared to be the last
will & testament of the said Samuel Bumpass decd & ordered to be
recorded at the same time John B. Leathers one of the Executors therein
named appeared in open court & qualified accordingly.
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