Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Walton, Nathaniel July 31, 1771
************************************************
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, pages 131-134
Written: July 31, 1771
Recorded: unknown date
Testator: Nathaniel Walton

[Will Book Volume A, page 131]
Be it Remembered that I Nathaniel Walton
of the Parish of Saint Matthews on the Waters of Enoe
in Orange County North Carolina hath this day Considered
it being the Thirty first day of July Anno Dommony
One Thousand Seven hundred & Seventy one that
a will was Proper to be made my Body Being
Low and Weak although my understanding Comprehends
the Signification of this my Last will and Testament

[Will Book Volume A, page 132]
I Promis[e] my Just Debts to be paid According
to the Specimen of Our Just Laws ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Secondly I do bequeath unto my Bosom friend and
Loving wife Mary one feather Bead and all its
furniture two milch Cows Kept for hir will
freely without Cost free Tolaration[sic] to Pass
Live and Repass Through my House in which
I am now Live to the End of hir Days ~~~
Likewise I will and allow hir one Good
Hackney Horse Mare or Geldin to be at
hir hole Disposal and Command upon Said
Premises four Hogs or Swine She shall
or may Keep with Tolaration a few Geese
Ducks hens &c not Exceeding Six of Each
Sort Grown or to be wintered Shee shall
have a Privilege if any thing should happen
during hir widowhood on acct of Disturbances
a House built on the owners Cost of said
Land that I now Possess filling to Live in
with Twenty Acres of Land adjoining the Big
Road and the same shall take in and admit
the Spring head might the Big Road she shall
have one pick of flax seed sowed Each
Year during hir widowhood if require regularly
she shall have sufficient fire wood drawn
to her Dower when she orders it be lade down
also she shall have five pound p annam
paid to hir Yearly and Every Year ~~~

[Will Book Volume A, page 133]
During hir widowhood on the Twenty Seventh
day of Novmbr Each Year Provided never the
less that if my wife Mary above written
mentioned or Intended to be mentioned Marrys

She shall have hir five Pound P annum
during Life and by hir to be disposed when
She Lists ~~~ Thirdly my Daughter Mary shall
and I do will and bequeath that she shall ~~
have a feather bead and furniture two
milch Cows and forth Pounds Paid in one
Year after She becomes to the Years of
Twenty one further more I will and Bequeath
to my Young Daughters Viz ~ Jemima
and Keziah the Same Consubstantially with
My Daughter Mary fourthly and Lastly
I will and Bequeath to my only Son now
Living Peter Walton all my Land holds
and Buildings situate on Enoe in this ~~~
Province of North Carolina County of ~~~
Orange to him his heir and Assigns for
Ever also tis by this my will Consti[t]uted[?]
that my wife Mary and my son Peter
be an him hereby Ordain my Executors
to this my Last will and Testament Given
under my hand and Seal the Day and Year
above written ~~~~                his
Sealed pronounced and      Nathl. (X) Walton (seal)
Delivered in he Presents of       mark
Wm Durbin              Test F. Nash C.C.
John Reeves
Lancelet Johnston

[Will Book Volume A, page 134]
But further Known to all men this Codical to
my will is Such that Every Slave and
negro that I have now in possession shall
be Submissive and Obedient to my Beloved
Mary Walton they and Every of them faithfully
Truly and Honestly Obey hir Call and Ordered
in all and Every Request during hir ~~~
Widowhood Moreover if my Exr, Sees Cause
to Sell one or more of my Slaves Either on
on Acct. of Silfish willfull Disobedience
in the whole or Either of them or an acct.
of Discharging the Legacies as before Insirted
Put down and written after the whole of this
my Last will and Testament is duly Observed
faithfully Compleated and fullfilled my
Sone Peter shall have all my Negroes or
the Residue of Stock Land and every
thing Else now or may be mind here after
in full Clear and Absolute possession to
Dispose of as his Clear Right and title
unless some unknown Legacies that Perhaps
may now be or be here after if such be
[x-out] now or be hereafter it shall be
Equally Divided be tween my wife and Children
as witness my hand and Seal this fourth Day of
August 1771

Test                              his
Wm. Durbin  } Test         Nathl. (I) Walton (seal)
Jno. Reeves }   F. Nash C.C.      Mark
Wm. Thomas  }

Additional Comments:
Will Book Volume A, pages 131-134
Recorded unknown date

No loose will found.

No estate papers found.