Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Holt, Michael October 31, 1765
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Source: Orange County North Carolina Will Book A, Page 76
Written: October 31, 1765
Recorded: 1767

Orange County North Carolina Will Book A p 76
"North Carolina, Orange County, In the name of God Amen, I Michael Holt Senr. of
Orange County in the province of North Carolina, do make publish and declare
this my last will and testament in manner and form allowing, hereby revoking and
annulling all former and other will and wills heretofore by me made and first I
commend my soul into the hands of my God from whom I received it
hereby trusting in his mercy and the merits of our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer,
Jesus Christ for forgiveness of my sins and life everlasting and my
body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my
executors and as to my worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me
with I dispose thereof in manner and form following I lend in the first place to
my dearly beloved wife Elizabeth the house and manner plantation whereon I now
live and also all other lands and tenements whatsoever and wherever and I
likewise lend unto my wife the use, possession and enjoyment of all my negroes,
moveables, and other personal estate to her during the course of her natural
life and my will is that she do enjoy the same without tell or molestation of any. 
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Peter after the decease of my wife the two
hundred acres of land whereupon I now live including the house fences
and all right and property  in anywise appurtaining thereto. To hold to my son
Peter his heirs and assigns forever. 
Item I give devise and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of all my
real and personal estate to be equally divided among my children as may be alive
at the time of my said wife's decease share and share alike and I do hereby
ordain and appoint my dear son Michael Holt Jr and Nicholas Holt Jr. executors
of this my last will and testament. In witness where of I have unto set my hand
and seal this thirty-first day Oct in the year of our Redemption one thousand
seven hundred and sixty five.
Michael Holt (seal)
Signed sealed published and declared by this testator as and for his last will
and testament in the presence of us who have hereby set our names and each in
the presence of the other John Butler, William Carlisle
Orange County Court 1767
The execution of the within will was duly proved in open court by the oath of
John Butler and was ordered to be recorded.
Test. Francis Nash, C.C.


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