ORANGE COUNTY, NC - Wills - Sherid Dunnagan, 7 Jan 1800
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Orange County, North Carolina
Will Book D, Page 22 & 23

Sherid Dunnagan - January 7, 1800

In the name of God Amen, I Sherid Dunnagan of the County of Orange and
State of North Carolina planter being weak in body but of perfect mind
and memory thanks be given unto God calling to mind the mortality of my
body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make
and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say principally
and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God
that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a
Christian and decent like manner at the discretion of my Executor
Nothing doubting but at the General resurrection I shall receive the
same again by the mighty power of God, and as ? such worldly Estate as
it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and
dispose of the same in the following manner and form. First I give and
bequeath to Dice my dear beloved wife all my estate real and personal
to have and to hold during her life or widow hood this privilege I allow
her Excepting if it is in her power that she may try to raise my
Children upon, also make and ordain Dice my Wife and George Carrington
her brother my Executor and Executrix and set in case my Wife should
die or get married my estate is to be ? at the discretion of the
Executor to & support the children till the youngest child is twenty one
years of age & then my real Estate my son Wm and Sherid and my personal
Estate to be divided between my two daughters Equally Amelia and Mary
and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every
other Will before made willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming
this and no other to be my last Will and Testament in witness whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal seventh day of January in the year
of our lord one thousand eight hundred - Signed Sealed published
pronounced and delivered by the said Sherid Dunnagan as his last Will
and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and the
presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names.
George Newton                                Sherid Dunagan (seal)
Edward Worsham
                                        Orange County August Term 1800
The Execution of the foregoing last will and Testament of Sherid Dunnagan
was duly proved in open court by the oaths of Edward Worsham one of the
subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded at the same
time Dicey Dunnagan the Executrix therein named qualified accordingly.        
                                  Test.                J. ?