Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Crutchfield, James 1806 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Richard Crotwell PurplePirate@pineland.net March 16, 2010, 5:38 pm Source: Original Written: 1806 In the name of God Amen I James Crutchfield of Orange County & State of No. Carolina planter being weak of body but of perfect mind & memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and utterly disannuling all and every other testament and wills by me made Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will & Testament: after paying all my Just debts and funeral Charges -- I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Crutchfield, all the Corn & Oats on the plantation for her use, with the Rye fodder &c. with all my stock of Horses Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, geese, &c. with all and every Part of the farming utensils, with all my Household furniture and Chair & Harness, together with the wheat that is at home and at John Crawfords mill; the above mentioned Property after her Death to be equally Divided among her Children also all the property willed to her by John Steel -------------------- I will and bequeath to James Crutchfield Turrentine my Roach Track of land con- taining one Hundred and Twenty Eight Acres more or less. The said place to be Rented yearly and Said James to Receive the profits annually, or if the land can be sold for Five? Hundred and Twenty five [page] Dollars, then let it be sold and the money put to Interest until he is Twenty one years of age. I will and bequeath to my Brother Benjamin Crutchfield, one negro man named Abram, on condition, that said Benjamin, get finished complete and strong a new Waggon that is on hand at Matthis Wilsons and William Crutchfields Shops, he is to pay the workman each their Charges an also all expenses thereto relating and furnish a strong set of gears for said waggon -- Abram to be Delivered when the wag- gon is completed ad ready for service ---- I likewise give to my Brother John Crutchfield the sum of Ten Shillings, and to my Brother William Two Pound Ten Shillings, & to my Brother Thomas Two Pound Ten Shilling to my Brother Stapleton Ten Shilling, to my Brother Anderson Ten Shillings. to John Pitts Ten Shillings ----------------- The part of Property coming to me at the Death of my Mother, I give to Thomas and Stapleton to be equally divided be -tween them -- and lastly I hereby constitute make and appoint, and ordain Mary my wife and my friend Jacob Greer executrix and Executor of this my last will and Testament and it is my will that the [page] before mentioned legacies be Paid at the end of two years after my Death or sooner if convenient. ----- It witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this nineteenth day of November in the year of or Lord one thousand Eight Hundred & six. James Crutchfield {Seal} Signed, Sealed published pronounced & declared by the said James Crutchfield as his last will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereto Subscribed our names Thomas Bradshaw} Wm. Shaw } Jurat Em. Quals?? [not legible] NOTES: 1. Transcribed from a copy of the handwritten original by Richard Crotwell. 2. The wife of this James Crutchfield was Mary Jane Shaw, the widow of John Steel also of Orange County, NC. 3. The James Crutchfield Turrentine indicated in this will as being under age 21 was the son of Daniel G. Turrentine and Elizabeth Steel and grandson of John and Mary Jane Shaw Steel. The book "Abstracts Of Wills Recorded In Orange County, North Carolina, 1800-1850" by Ruth Shields, pages 33 & 34 missed the Turrentine surname which appears in the original handwritten will. 4. Source: Orange County, NC Will Book D page 206. Copy of original handwritten from Janel Crutchfield Howell obtained at NC State Archives Raleigh, NC 1 May 1985. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/orange/wills/crutchfi1331wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb