ORANGE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Mary Johnston Craig,   29 October 1825
				Proved Feb Term 1826
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WILL  Of  MARY  CRAIG

In the name of God, Amen, I, Mary Craig, being of sound mind & memory do
make & constitute my last Will & Testament in manner following, TO WIT:

In the FIRST place, I request my Executors herein after nominated to have
me decently though not expensively entered, or buried, at the New Hope
meeting house where my Husband and many of my relations & friends are
buried----I give & bequeath to my four Grand-children, TO WIT: William,
Polly, Peggy & Patsey children of my son Samuel, Decd., my Negro fellow
Jim, and as it is probable as these children are young that some of them
may not live to be of age, or may die without lawful issue; in either of
these contingencies happening, it is my will & desire that the share, or
shares, of him of them so dying shall descend to & be equally divided
between the surviving, or survivors, share & share alike.

And, that my Executors herein after named the better to enable them to
make an equal division among my said Grand children TO WIT, William,
Polly, Peggy & Patsey, I direct them to make sale of said Negro Jim at
such credit as they may think advisable or most conducive to the interest
&  benefit of the aforesaid children, and the money arising therefrom to
divide equally among them, or the survivors of them, share &  share alike.

I give &  bequeath to my grand-daughter Patsey my bed & furniture to her &
her heirs forever; also, I give to her my said Grand-daughter one walnut
chest.

      I give to my grand-daughter Peggy, herein before mentioned, one 
small walnut chest.

The balance of my house-hold & kitchen furniture, not herein before
particularly mentioned, I give and bequeath to my said grand-daughters
Polly, Peggy & Patsey to be divided among them by my said Executors in a
manner as may in their estimation to be equal and just among them.

LASTLY , I nominate and appoint my friends, William Kirkland & Charles W.
Johnston, my Executors, or Executor, of this my last WILL, hereby revoking
all other wills heretofore made, & acknowledge this to be my last Will.

      IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal 
the 29th. day of October, 1825.

Mary Craig her mark (Seal) 


Signed, Sealed, Published & pronounced by the Testatrix in our presence to
be her last Will; who signed the same in our presence, & who she desired
to ATTEST the same as WITNESSES which we have done in the presence of each
other.

J. Henderson (Jurat)
Geo. I. Johnston
Joseph Kirkland


ORANGE COUNTY
North Carolina 
February Term, A. D. 1826

The Execution of the foregoing LAST WILL of Many Craig decd., was duly
proved in open court by the oath of Pleasant Henderson, a subscribing
witness thereto & ordered to be recorded.  At the same time William
Kirkland one of the Executors therein named qualified accordingly.

Test


NORTH CAROLINA
ORANGE COUNTY

I, E. M. Lynch. Clerk Superior Court, Orange County, North Carolina, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the LAST WILL and
TESTAMENT of Mary Craig, deceased, as the same appears on record in my
office, same being recorded in WILL BOOK E, at page 105.

WITNESS, my hand and official SEAL this 9th day of March, 1959.

/s/   E. M. Lynch

CLERK SUPERIOR COURT