Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Tapley, Hosea Jr March 21, 1770 ************************************************ 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: Will Book Volume A, page 125 Written: March 21, 1770 Recorded: 22 Mar 1770 Testator: Hosea Tapley, Jr [Will Book Volume A, page 125] North Carolina } This day Came Victory Rankins before me & made oath Orange County } that She was at Hoesea Tapleys Junr. Some ten days Before he died in his Sickness and being in his proper Senses said that it was his desire that the Part of Land & Plantation the South Side of Flat River where on she then Lived was for his Son John Pryor Tapley and the other part on the north Side of Said River was for his other Son Hosea Tapley whith[sic] this Exception that if his wife was with Child and sho[u]ld be a Son when Born that his Desire the Land might be divided in These Eaqul[sic] Parts for them & that he dyed on the 21the of March in the Year 1770 Sworn before me this 22th day of March 1770 Victory Rankins John Pryor Test F. Nash C.C. Additional Comments: Will Book Volume A, page 125 Recorded 22 Mar 1770 No loose will found. No estate papers found.