Orange County NC - WILLS - Nathaniel WELLS, 16 October 1814

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Transcriber's Notes:
Nathaniel (Nathan) Wells, born in 1755, Orange Co.,NC, was the son 
of Joseph and Charity Carrington Wells who were charter members of 
the Cane Creek M.M. Nathan married Esther Ward, 12 March 1785. Esther 
Ward was the daughter of William Ward and Susanna Foulke, great-
granddaughter of Elizabeth Cope Foulke Blackwell. Nathan Wells was 
dismissed from membership in the Quaker Church for his military service 
in Col.John Starkey=92s Regiment. (proof:N.C. Revolutionary War Book C, 
page 93; Revolutionary War National #275640.) He wrote a paper, "Fighting 
in the Military Company", and furnished money and supplies for the war.

Although formerly dismissed from the Quaker Church, on the 4th of
November 1815, he was granted a certificate to Lick Creek M.M. near
Paoli in Orange Co.Indiana where he died in 1817. The members of the
Daughters of the American Revolution placed a grave marker in the Lick
Creek Cemetery where he is believed to be buried.

His daughter Elizabeth married Stephen Samuel Cameron on 14 February
1805, and the Camerons moved to Orange Co.IN around 1823.
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Nathan Wells will - 1814

Be it remembered that on the twenty sixth day of April in the year of
Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen the last will and
testament of Nathan wells deceased was filed in the clerks office of the
Orange Circuit court and proven by the oaths of Ephriam Doan, Peleg
Gifford and Solomon Allen the witnesses thereunto subscribed and Levi
Gifford one of the Executors therein named, performed what was necessary
on his parte to obtain letters testamentory and a copy of the will is
hereunto annexed to wit--

Be it remembered that I Nathan wells of Orange County and State of 
North Carolina being sick and weak in body but perfect in minde and 
memory, calling to mind the mortality of of the body and knowing that 
it is appointed for man once to die do make and ordain this my last will 
and testament in the following manner and forme--First I ordain that 
all my just debts be paid together with my funeral charges and the 
remaining parte of my estate I give divide and dispose of the same in 
manner following. I order that my wife Esther have full privalidge 
of the plantation that I now live on and all the buildings belonging 
thereto during her natural life to cultivate or rent out the land injoy 
the proffits arising there from if it be her choise to live on the 
land and at her decease or marriage I order the land to be sold by my 
executors and the price of it be divided in equal shears among my three 
sons Joseph, Nathan and John but if it be my wifes choise to remove from 
the above said plantation I impower my executors to make sale of the 
land and divide the price in equal shares among my wife and aforesaid 
three sons Joseph, Nathan and John. At my deecese I order the tract 
of land that I purchased of Thomas Clark a land adjoining the lands of 
Samuel Pike and the remainder to be sold by my executors and the price 
of it to be applied to the payment of my debts and other charges arising 
from the executor of this will and if there be any remainder I order 
that the same be divided in equal shares between my two daughters Esther
and Sarah by my executors. I give to my wife one good feather bed and 
furniture her choise of the beds in my possession and all the spinning 
wheels that I possess and also one square black wanet table and one gun 
(unreadable) and one third parte of my dressor furniture and one case, 
her choise of the stock to be at her intire disposal. Item- I give to 
my wife one grey mare and a brown mare and all my ploughs and plowgears 
and all my weading hoes and one ax her choise and one mattock and my 
loome and tachlings, sleighs and geers and one dutch oven and four gallon 
pot and one skilet her choise and one washing tub and all my stock of 
hogs and all the flax and all the grain that is now on the place and 
also all the fodder and straw and straw on the place and also my house 
hold chiars. I give the above mentioned property to my wife for her use 
and benefit during her life or widowhood and at her decease or marriage 
I order that the aforesaid property or such parte of it as is not 
consumed by using be sold by my executors and the money be divided 
in equal shears among my three daughters Charity, Esther and Sarah. I 
order my executors to sell my wagon and brick bands one case of drawers 
and one ovel black wanet table one pair of dressors and all the 
remaining parte of my property not mentioned in this will except the 
beds and furniture and divide the money equal between my two daughters 
Esther and Sarah. I also  give to my two daughters Esther and Sarah 
each of them a feather bed and furniture I give to my son Stephen Wells 
one dollar I give to daughter Susannah Ray one dollar I give to my 
daughter Elizabeth Cameron one dollar I give to my son William Wells one
dollar. If my executors find that my two sons Nathan and John are not
sufficiently obedient and dutifull to their mother give them power to
bound them to such masters as they may think proper and lastly I
nominate constitute and appoint Stephen Ward and Levi Gifford executors
of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of the tenth month 1814. 

Signed pronounced and declared by the said Nathan Wells to be his last 
will and testament in presence of
Ephriam Doan
Peleg Gifford
Solomon Allen                   Nathan Wells {seal}

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