RANDOLPH COUNTY, NC - WILLS - William Robbins - 1786 ============================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: John German german@jarman.net ============================================================== William Robins Last Will and Testament 8 October 1786, Randolph Co., NC (Original Will, North Carolina State Archives, C.R.X.291) Know all men by these presents that I William Robins of the County of Randolph in the State of north Carolina Blacksmith being under sum indisposion of Body But through the great goodness and mer Mercy of God having the free use of my understanding & being of & disposing mind & and memory and Calling to mind the uncertainty of this life and knowing it is appointed unto all men once to Die Doe Make ordain and appoint these presents to Contain my Last will and Testament in manner and form following---- Im presents my Soule I Recommend to God that Gave it and my Body to be decently buried at the discretion of my hir after named Executors and as for such worldly Estat as it hath pleased God to intrust me with I do dispose there of in manner & form following that is to say I do will and ordain that all my just debts & and funeral Expense be paid and defrayed within Convenant time after my Decease. Item I give and bequeth to my well beloved wife francis Robins my plantation During hir natural life [with ?] my dwelling house and all househould [fernitur ?] and at hir Death to betwen Daniel Rachel and ann Item I give to my Eldess son named John one hundred acres of land joining my plantation to the west which Devision to be agreed on by my hir after named executors Item I give to my Second son named Christopher two hundred and twenty acres of land lying west joyning his brother John to be devided in manner and form before mentioned. Item I give to my third son named daniel after his mother deseas my plantation with one hundred and sixty acres of land with paying fifteen Shillings yearly to the seport of his Sister ann also I give him a Certain mare named [brown ?] with a young horse also one plow and tackling one howe ax and m[--?--]. Item I give to my grandson able Robins on hundred acres of land laying in the South East Corner of my tract of land to be laid of in manner and form before mentioned Item I give unto my three eldest Daughters Elizabeth Reed and francis Reed and Charity Vickrey Each of them one puter patter apeace Item I give to my daughter ann a Certain mare named boon with all hir futer in Crease Item I give to my youngest daughter Rachel a young mare and feather bed at hir mother's Decease Item I give unto my three sons before mentioned my Blacksmiths tooles and Carpenters and farmers tools to eqully Devided and I further do Constitute ordain and appoint my three sons John Robins Christopher Robins and Daniel Robins to be my exercutors of this my last will and testament in witness hearoff I have set my hand and seaels this Eight Day of October and in the year of our Lord one thousnad sevcen hundred and eighty six. Sign sealed published and pronounced and Declared by the said William Robins William Robins to be his last will and testament in presence of us Christopher Nation Christopher Vickrey [Transcribed by John L. German, C.G. on 9 August 1999.]