RICHMOND COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Mourning Pickett, filed 1803 
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Contributor's Note:  There is no date of signing on the will.  Copy 
received from North Carolina State Archives.


This is the last will and testament of me Mourning Pickett / widow / of 
the Town of Rockingham and State of North Carolina. I will and [illegible] 
that all my just debts, funeral expenses, and the charges of proving this 
will, and carrying it into effect be fully paid by my executors 
hereinafter named as soon as conveniently can be after my decease.

I give and bequeath to my worthy friends Walter Leak of this place and 
William Terry of the Town of Sneedsborough & State aforesaid their heirs 
executors & administrators and assigns all my estate both real & personal 
to which I am in any manner entitled at my decease to hold the same to the 
said Walter & William their heirs executors & administrators. Upon trust 
[illegible] [illegible] that they the said Walter Leak & William Terry or 
the survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such 
survivor do & shall with all convenient speed after my decease take into 
their custody & possession all my estate both real & personal aforesaid & 
when any part thereof may be in the possession of others that they sue for 
or otherwise (recover?) & take possession of the same. And Upon Trust that 
as soon as the said Trustees are in possession of my personal estate and 
of any part or the whole of the [illegible] or profits of my real estate, 
that they will apply the whole of the same to the (hole?) & [illegible] 
use & benefit of my loving daughter Sally Childs wife of Thomas Childs of 
Montgomery County. And my will is that he shall not intermeddle - 
therewith neither shall the same be subject or [illegible] to his 
[scratched-out] [illegible] debts or engagements. And the (receipt?) of 
the said Sally Childs [illegible] with her proper [illegible] shall be a 
good and sufficient discharge for as much of the (rents?) & profits of my 
real estate or for so much of my personal estate or the profits thereof as 
shall be therein acknowledged or [illegible] to be received. And Up-on 
Trust Also that the said Walter Leak & William Terry trustees as aforesaid 
will by such good & sufficient (conveyance?) or [illegible] as [illegible] 
shall advise convey or otherwise (assure?) all or any part of my real 
estate either for years, for life, or in fee simple to such person or 
persons as the said Sally Childs (may?) by deed or deeds duly executed or 
by her last will & testament or any writing purporting to be her last will 
& testament (executed?) [illegible] to the [illegible] of this [illegible] 
direct (limit?) and appoint, [illegible] [illegible] her present or any 
future [illegible].

And I nominate & appoint the said Walter Leak, William Terry and my loving 
son James Picket of the County of Richmond & State aforesaid the executors 
of this my last will & testament. And I hereby revoke all other & former 
wills by me made ratifying & confirming this only as my last will & 
testament.

Witness my hand and seal this day of

Mourning (M) Pickett {seal}

Signed sealed published & declared by the Testatrix to be her last will & 
testament in presence of us

Wm Robards
Wm Leak

[Back of will]

Mourning Pickets Will
1803
Transcribed

North Carolina
Richmond County
March Session 1803

Then the within Will was proven in open court by the Oath of William 
Robards. Ordered to be registered.

Eli Terry Clk.