Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Dunnagan, Sherwood January 17, 1800 ************************************************ 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: Ben Franklin ben.franklin.ffru@gmail.com May 2024 Source: Loose Will, NC Archives CR 073.801, Will Book Volume D, pages 22-23 Written: January 17, 1800 Recorded: Aug 1800 Testator: Sherwood Dunnagan 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 & knowing that it is ap[p]ointed for all Men once to Die Do Make and Ordain this My Last Will & testament that is so say principly & first of All I Give & Recommend My Soul unto the hands of God that Gave it & My Body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian & Decent Like Manner at the Discretion of my Executors, Nothing Doubting But at the General Resurrection I Shall Receive the Same a Gain By the Mighty power of God and as touching Such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to Bless Me With in this Life I Give Demise & Dispose of the Same In the following Manner & form. first I Give and Bequeath to Dice My Dearly Beloved Wife All My Estate Real & personal to have and to hold During her Life or Widow hood this priveled[g]e I alow her Expecting If it is in her power that She May try to Raise My Children upon I also Make and Ordain Dice My Wife & George Carrington her Brother My Executrix & Executor & Set in Case that Dice My Wife Should Die or get Married My Estate is to be Manag'd at the Discretion of the Executor to & support of the Children till the youngest Child is twenty one years of Age & then my Real Estate My Sons Wm. & Sherid & My personal Estate to Be Devided Between My two Daughters Equal[l]y Amilia & Mary & I Do her[e]by Utterly Disal[l]ow Revoke & Disanul all & Every other former testament Wills Legacies bequeaths & Executors by Me In any Wise before Made Willed & Bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming this and No other to Be My Last Will & testament In Wittness[sic] Whareof[sic] I have hereunto set My hand and Seal this Seventeenth Day of January In the Year of [our] Lord one thousand Eight hundred Signed sealed published pronounced & Delivered By the Sherid Dunnagan (seal) Said Shered Dunnagan as his Last Will & testament in the presents of Us Who in his presence & the presence of Each other have hereto subscribed our Names Dicey Dunnagan qualifd. as Exx. George Newton Edward Wortham Jurat [Will Book Volume D, page 22] In the Name of God Amen, I Sherid Dunnagan of the the[sic] County of Orange and State of North Carolina planter being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God Cal[l]= ing 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 and[sic] Testament that is so 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 man[n]er at the discretion of my Executors Nothing doubting but at the General resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless Me With in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following man[n]er and form. First I give and bequeath to Dice my dear[ly] beloved Wife all my estate real and personal to have and to hold during her life or widow hood this previlege I allow her Excepting[expecting] if it is in her power that she may try to raise my Children upon, I also make and ordain Dice my Wife and George Carington her brother my Execu= tors and Executrix and set in Case that [Dice] my Wife should die or get mar[r]ied my estate is to be Mang'd 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 sons Wm. and Sherid and my personal Es= tate to be devided between my two daughters Equally Amelia and Mary and I do hereby Utterly disallow revoke and disanul all and every other [former testament Wills Legacies bequeaths and Executors by Me In any Wise] Will before made Willed and Bequeathed ratifying and confirm= ing this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal [this] seventh [Seventeenth] day of January in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred Signed sealed published pronounced and ["Declared" x-out] delivered by the said [Will Book Volume D, page 23] 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 Dunnagan (seal) Edward Wortham Orange County August Term 1800 The Executor of the foregoing last will and Testament of Sherid Dunn= agan was duly proved in open Court by the oaths of Edward Worsham one of the subscribing Witness thereto and ordered to be record ed, at the same time Dicey Dunnagan the Executrix therein named qua- =lifyed Accordingly ~~~~ Test J. Taylor CC Additional Comments: Will Book Volume D, pages 22-23 Recorded Aug 1800 Estate Papers comprise 14 pages and are found in a folder labeled "Dunnagan, Sherwood (1809)". "Amelia is now twenty seven or twenty eight and intermarried with William Carrington about nine years ago last June." This assertion by Nancy Newton was unfortunately undated, guessed to be Aug 1816. Mary, AKA Polly married Moses Leathers.