Graham, Agnes - 1792 - Rowan Co., NC - Wills Submitted to the USGenWeb Project by Nina Mack HISTMOM@aol.com WILL OF AGNES GRAHAM, ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA WILL BOOK C p.46 WILL PROBATED IN 1792 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF MARCH ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX I AGNES GRAHAM OF ROWAN COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA BEING OLD & SICK AND WEAK BUT OF PERFECT MIND & MEMORY THANKS BE TO GOD THEREFORE CALLING TO MIND MORTALITY OF MY BODY AND THAT IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN & WOMEN TO DIE DO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT & PRINCIPALLY & FIRST OF ALL I GIVE & RECOM- END MY SOUL IN THE HAND OF GOD THAT GAVE IT HOPING THROUGH THE DEATH MERITS & INTERCESSION OF MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST TO HAVE A FULL & FREE PARDON & FORGIVENESS OF ALL MY SINS & TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE AND MY BODYM I COMMIT TO THE EARTH TO BE BURIED IN DECENT CHRIS- TIAN BURIAL AT THE DISCRETION OF MY EXECUTORS HEREAFTER NAMED AND AS TO SUCH WORLDLY ESTATE WHEREWITH IT HATH PLEASED GOD TO BLESS ME WITH IN THIS LIFE I GIVE, BEQUEATH AND DISPOSE IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER & FORM. FIRST MY WILL AND PLEASURE IS THAT ALL THOSE DEBTS & DUTIES AS I DO OWE TO ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER IN RIGHT OR CONSCIENCE BE FIRST OF ALL PAID & DISCHARGED BY MY EXECUTORS IN SOME CONVENIENT TIME AFTER MY DECEASE OUT OF MY PERSONAL ESTATE. ITEM I GIVE & BE- QUEATH TO MY LOVING DAUGHTER AGNES STEEL MY NEGRO WENCH DINAH AND A PEWTER BASON TO HER HEIRS & ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM I GIVE & BEQUEATH TO MY LOVING GANDDAUGHTER AGNES STEEL DAUGHTER OF MY DAUGHTER AGNES ONE OF MY FEATHER BEDS & THE FURNITURE HEREUNTO BELONGING AND MY CHEST TO HER & HER HEIRS & ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM I GIVE & BEQUEATH UNTO MY LOVING DAUGHTER JANE GILESPEY MY OTHER FEATHER BED & FURNITURE THERE- UNTO BELONGING AND A PEWTER BASON TWO PETTICOATS TO HER & HER ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM I GIVE & BEQUEATH TO MY LOVING SON RICHARD GRAHAM FIVE PEWTER PLATES ( & THE ONE HALF OF THE USE OF MY BIG IRON POT & CROCK AND THE OTHER HALF OF THE USE OF SAID POT & CROCK TO MY SON JOSEPH GRAHAM ) AND A THREE YEAR OLD STEER & PEWTER BASON & A LARGE DISH PAGE 2 TWO HIEFERS & A EWE AND MY HORSE CALLED BUCK & MY DRESSER TO HIM & HIS HEIRS & ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM I GIVE & BEQUEATH TO MY LOVING GRANDDAUGHTER ELIONER GRAHAM DAUGHTER OF MY SON JOSEPH NINE PEWTER PLATES TWO PEWTER BASONS TWO LARGE PEWTER DISHES & A BRASS CANDLE- STICK & MY COW CALLED LADY & THE FOAL THAT MY MARE NOW BIG WITH & A POT RACK & MY WHEEL & CHUCK REEL & TWO EWES THREE OF MY PRETTY COATS AND MY MEAT POT & DUTCH OVEN TO HER & HER ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM I GIVE & BEQUEATH UNTO MY LOVING SON JOSEPH GRAHAM ONE THREE YEAR OLD STEER & MY MARE & MY COW CALLED DAISY AND MY HACKLE ( BETWIXT JOSEPH & RICHARD) AND A PEWTER BASON & TO HIS HEIRS & ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM I GIVE & BEQUEATH TO MY LOVING DAUGHTER MARY GILESPY ONE LARGE PEWTER BASON TO HER & HER HEIRS & ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM I GIVE & BEQUEATH TO MY LOVING SON WILLIAM GRAHAM TWO SMALL PEWTER DISHES & TO HIS HEIRS & ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY LOVING GRANDSON RICHARD GRAHAM SON OF MY DAUGHTER JANE MY HORSE CALLED ROCK TO HIM & HIS HEIRS & ASSIGNS FOREVER. ITEM THE RESIDUE OF MY ESTATE I GIVE & BEQUEATH TO ALL MY SONS & DAUGHTERS SHARE & SHARE ALIKE TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONGST THEM & THEIR HEIRS & ASSIGNS FOREVER. LASTLY I ORDAIN CONSTITUTE & APPOINT MY LOVING SON RICHARD SOLE EXECUTOR OF THIS MY LAST WILL & TESTAMENT HEREBY REVOKING & DISANNULLING ALL FORMER AND OTHER WILLS TESTAMENTS LEGACIES BEQUEATHMENTS & EXECUTORS BY ME IN ANY MANNER OF WAYS NAMED, WILLED OR BEQUEATHED BEFORE THIS LAST PUBLISHED PRONOUNCED & DECLARED BY THE SAID AGNES GRAHAM AS HER LAST WILL & TESTAMENT. IN PRESENCE OF US THE SUBSCRIBERS. SAMUAL McCORKLE AGNES GRAHAM (SEAL) HENRY HUGHEY SAMUAL YOUNG ============================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogy information on the Internet, data may be freely 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 presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must contact the submitter or the listed USGenWeb archivist.