ORANGE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - William Walker, 24 Mar 1769
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ORANGE CO NC WILL BOOK A pp101-102

[p101]

IN THE NAME OF GOOD AMEN the 24th Day of March / 1769 I William Walker of the 
County of Orange Yeom: Being Weak of Body / but in perfect mind and memory 
thanks be given to God therefore Calling to / Mind the Mortality of my Body 
Knowing that it is appointed for all / men once to Die do make and ordain this 
my last Will and Testament / that is to say Principally, and first of all I 
give & Recomend my Soul / into the hands of God that give it, and as for my 
Body I recomend it to / the Earth to be Buried in a Christian Like and Decent 
Manner to the / Discreation of my Executors, Nothing Doubting But the General 
Resurrec- / tion I shall receive the Same again By the Almighty Power of God / 
and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God / to bless 
me with in this Life, I devise give and Bequeath and dispose / of the same in 
the following manner and form, it is my Will and / I do Order that in the 
first Place all my Just Debts and funeral Charges / be paid and Satisfied, And 
I do Order that John Robertson and John / Corry shall be my Executors 
~~~~~~~~~~~ / Item I do Give and Bequeath to my well beloved wife the thord of 
all my / Estate which is a mear and a Cow for a Shot [Shoat?] I have None ~~~~ 
/ Item I do give to my well beloved Son James Walker Two Dollars. / Item I do 
give and bequeath to my well beloved son John Walker / Ten Pounds he Received 
in Pensalvania and Twenty Pounds in / North Carolina and what Cattel he 
Received ~~~~~~~ / Item I do give and bequeath to my well beloved sons William 
/ Abraham & Alexand Equal divide of all the Money and Chattles / att my 
Decease the place that William Lived on is his one only / The one half of the 
said Tract the East end belongeth to Abraham / and the tract on Hogan's Creek 
Belongeth to Alexander ~ /

William [W] Walker
his mark

[Witnesses]
John Correy (Jur.)
Shusana [T] Corry
her mark

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[p102]

Orange County
July Court 1769

	The Execution of the within /
Will is Proved in Open Court by John Corry one /
of the Subscribing Witnesses thereto, and Ordered to /
be Recorded.

		Test

			P. Nash

[N. B. from LVB: The W in William W Walker and the T in Shusana T Corry would 
appear to be their marks and not their middle initials.]