ORANGE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Young Dorch - 1 Oct 1826
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Orange County, North Carolina
Will Recording, Book F, Page 315 & 316

Young Dorch - October 1, 1826

     I Young Dorch of the County of Orange and State of North Carolina
being of sound mind & memory but considering the uncertainty of my earthly
existence do make & declare this my last will and testament in manner and
form following that is to say
     First that my executors hereinafter named shall provide for my body a
decent burial suitable to the wishes of my family & pay all funeral expenses
together with my just debts howsoever & to whomsoever coming out of the
money that may first come into their hands as a part or parcel of my estate.
     Item. I give & bequeath unto my beloved wife Nancy Dorch the plantation
on which I now live together with Jinny, Mirinda and Edy with their increase
also all the stock of hogs cattle & horses household & kitchen furniture with
the crop of corn, wheat & oats on hand at my decease to be hers & at her
dispose or during the term of her natural life at her decease I desire that
said plantation with Jinny & Edy with their increase belong to my daughter
Lucy Walker & her heirs to be hers and at her disposal forever the above
mentioned girl Mirinda I give to my wife in fee simple with all her increase
to be at her own disposal forever.
     Item. I give & devise to my son John Dorch a negro boy Willis to be his
at a fair valuation by two good men and not otherwise also an equal share of
the household & kitchen furniture at the decease of my wife.
     Item. I give & devise to my daughter Mary Nichols a negro girl Dilcy &
her increase to be hers at a fair valuation by two good men & not otherwise
also an equal part of my household & kitchen furniture at the decease of my
wife.
     Item. I give & devise unto my daughter Emeline wife of David Lockhart a
negro boy Dennis to be hers at a fair valuation by two good men & not 
otherwise also an equal part of my household & kitchen furniture at the death 
of my wife.  I devise further that if the three last married legatees refuse 
to take the said slaves and pay a fair valuation as above required that they 
be sold by my executors and the proceeds applied to my debts.
     Item. I give & devise to my daughter Lucy Walker the plantation on which
I now live also two slaves Jinny & Edy with all their increase to be hers &
her heirs in fee simple forever after the decease of my wife also an equal
part of my household & kitchen furniture.
     Item. I give & devise unto my son David Dorch the sum of two hundred
dollars to be paid him by my other children proportionally as they have
received of by estate to be his in fee simple forever.
     And lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my trusty friends
John Y Dorch & David Lockhart my lawful Executors to all intents & purposes
to execute this my last will & testament according to the true intent &
meaning of the same & Every part & clause thereof _ hereby revoking &
declaring utterly void all other wills & testaments by me heretofore made.
     In witness whereof I the said Young Dorch do hereunto set my hand and
seal this 1st day of October A.D. 1826

Signed Sealed & delivered                                his
In presence of                                     Young  X  Dorch (seal)
Jno C. Douglas                                           mark
Martin Murphey

                                           Orange County November Term 1826
The Execution of the foregoing Will was duly proved in open court by the
oath of Jno C Douglas a subscribing witness thereto and ordered to be
recorded Whereupon John Y Dorch one of the executors therein named appeared
and qualified as such
                                      Test.