ORANGE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Sarah Morgan, 17 Oct 1785
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     In the name of God Amen I Sarah Morgan of the County of Orange &
State of No Carolina being Sick in body but in my perfect mind & memory
Thanks be to Almighty God for the same & Calling to mind the frailty of my
body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make this my
last will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give
& recommend my body & Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it
my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a decent burial at the
discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection
I shall receive the same Again by the power of almighty god, And as touching
my worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless? me with in this Life I give
Demise Dispose of in manner and form following ______________
Item I give to my beloved son John Morgan one shilling Sterling, Item I give 
and bequeath to my beloved son Hardy Morgan one shilling Sterling  Item I give 
& bequeath to my beloved Daughter Anne Hart one shilling Sterling Item I lend 
to my beloved Daughter Sarah Yeargan During her natural Life one Negroe girl 
named Lucy & one negroe boy named Chan(ce) And at the death of my beloved 
Daughter Sarah Yeargan, I give & bequeath to my beloved Grand Daughter 
Sharlotte yeargan the above mentioned negroe girl Lucy & the above mentioned 
boy named Chance to her & her heirs forever and if the above mentioned 
Sharlotte Yeargan should die with out Lawfull heir Lawfully begotten on her 
body, my desire of? the above mentioned negroes Lucy and Chance with their 
Increase should return to the next surviving heir of her family, Item I give & 
bequeath to my beloved Daughter Sarah Yeargan all my real & personal Estate & 
the increase with all other? profit and Interest arising therefrom during her 
natural life and then my desire is that it & all and every of the said Estate 
should be divided amongst the surviving children she has by Ben Yeargan__  And 
now I constitute make & ordain Benjamin Yeargan and Daniel Hogan the whole & 
sole? Executors of this my last will and testament and I do hereby ___?___ 
Disallow revoke & Disannul all and every other former Testaments wills 
Legacies bequests and Executors by me in Any wise before named willed & 
Bequeathed, Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and 
testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 
seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 
& Eighty five,

Signed Sealed & delivered by the sd. Sarah Morgan

In presence of
                                                         her
Robt. Campbell                                      Sarah   Morgan   seal
Nicholas Quisenbury                                      mark
Danl. Boothe


Source:
LDS FHC #0306091
North Carolina Superior Court
Orange County
Wills Vols. A-B 1752-1795
Will Book B
Pages 3-5