ORANGE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - William Forsyth, 14 Jan 1819
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                           Last Will and Testament 
                                      of
                               William Forsyth

In the name of God, Amen. I William Forsyth of Orange County, state of 
NCarolina being weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory do make 
and publish this my last will and testament in the manner and form following 
(?) after all my just debts are paid, I lend to my beloved wife Mary during 
her natural life  two negroes by the name Sam and Amy, my riding mare Fly, two 
choice cows and calves and twenty head of choice hogs, all my household and 
kitchen furniture. Plantation tools enough for two working hands and one years 
provision of corn fodder and wheat which property at my wifes death is to be 
equally devided between my children, James, Barnet,  John, Margaret, and Gilla 
and one sixth part of said property to Anna Baileys children.
Item, I give and bequeath to my sons Barnet and John and their heirs forever 
all my landed estate together with their premises houses, animals, etc., to be 
equally devided between the two said sons Barnet and John. 
Item, I wish all the rest of my property, perishable and personal to be sold 
to the highest bidder and to be equally divided between my children James, 
Barnet, John, Margaret and Gilla after one sixth part of said  perishable and 
personal property is deducted which sixth part I give and bequeath to my 
grandchildren Anna Baileys children as they shall come to the ages of twenty 
one. 
Item, I give to my daughter Anna ten dollars it being all I intend her. I  
constitute and appoint my friends Thos Snipes and Elijah Graves trustees and 
gardians[sic] of my son John and his property for life. Finally I constitute 
and hereby appoint my son Barnet Forsyth and my friend William McCauley for 
executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills 
by me made. In witness whereof  I have hereunto set my hand and seal 14th day 
of January in the year of our lord one thousand nineteen.

signed and sealed in					signed
the presence of						William Forsyth
(signed)
Jno caruthers
Archibald Durham

recorded May 1819                      


Transcribed from original 
document by 
Harold Leo Forsythe