Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Tate, Samuel Nelson May 18, 1855 ************************************************ 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: Dorothy Lou Tate Walker skywalk1@cox.net August 29, 2006, 9:40 am Source: Nc State Archives C.r. 073.801 Written: May 18, 1855 Recorded: 1856 Tate, Samuel N. 073=Orange 1856 WB-G-128 & NC State Archives C.R. 073.801. Transcribed as close as possible from orignal will with original spelling and punctuation. ----------------------------------------------------------- In the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty five - 1855 May the 18th Eighteenth - Know all men by these presants that I Samuel N. Tate of the County of Orange and State of North Carolina, being of Sound & perfect mind and memory, - Do make publish and ordain this my last will and Testament. In Manner following - That is to Say, First, I give and bequeath unto my youngest Son, Thomas my home plantation with all the appertainacy, thereunto belonging, and that he my son Thomas, shall Support, his Mother my beloved wife, her life time, or her widow hood. It is further my will that, all my perishable property, viz – house hold & kitchen furniture farming utencils, horses, hogs, cattle, etc remain with my son Thomas and his mother and my Daughter Sarah Ann and my son James, until my Daughter Sarah Ann becomes of age, then it is my will that my son Thomas Shale furnish her with one bed & furniture one beraue, and one cow and calf, it is my will & desire that all of my just Debts be paid by my Sons James and Thomas out of the money due me and retain the surplus if any for the use of the family above named,- if any deficiency they Shall pay such Deficency out of the above affects. It is my will that my daughter Margaret Thompson receive One Dollar by the hands of my Executors. It is my will that, my Interest in the rail road stock be equally divid between my son George James & Thomas, & Sarah Ann. It is my will that my Executor pay my Daughter Catherine Wynne One Dollar. I further give & bequeath unto my Son James P Tate the remaining part of my plantation (the Gorden track) adjoining my Son George containing ninety acres it being part of the same tract. Except two acres I give and bequeath unto my Son in Law Stephen Mays to have as a home for himself & family during the lifetime of himself & there to the use of his wife or Such of his family as may then be living- to be selected any where on the line between my Son George & James so as not to interfere with any improvements which my son George has heretofore made. The Division line having not been run between my Sons George & James on said Cardin tract and if he the said Mays & family Should remove from it then it Shall be the property of my Son James and further that the said two acres Shall not touch any improvements heretofore made on any part of said Cardin tract but confined to a Two acres Square – I further give & bequeath unto my Son Thomas My Interest in my threshing machine, Shop tools, lumber etc to the use of the family viz. my wife, James Thomas, and Sarah Ann And I holy make & appoint my worthy friend John Whitaker, my Executor To this my last Will & Testament In witness I the Said Samuel N. Tate have set my hand & seal, to this my last will and Testaments the day & year first above written Signed Sealed published and Delivered by the testator as Saml N Tate (Seal) His Last will and Testament in presence of us C.C. Smith Wilson Brown Jurat I hold A note hand on Dr Edmund Studwick for Two Hundred Dollars or therabout which I have gave to my Son George heretofor. Wilson Brown Jurat Saml N Tate (Seal) C C Smith File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/orange/wills/tate174gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb