Rowan County NcArchives Wills.....Giles, Mary Ellis January 15, 1800
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Source: Rowan Co., Nc - Will Book
Written: January 15, 1800
Recorded: 1805

Mary Ellis Giles
Will
Rowan County, NC
Written 15 Jan 1800
Proved 1805


In the name of God, Amen, I Mary Giles of Rowan County in the State of North
Carolina by the grace of God enjoying my usual health and understanding and
calling to mind the great eternity human life think fit to commit to write
constitute and appoint This my last will and testament as follows viz,
_________________   I humbly recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to
the ground to be decently buried at the direction of my Executors hereafter to
be nominated hoping through the mercy of God and the merits of my Saviour for a
Joyfull resurrection at the last day and a reunion of soul and body in bliss and
endless felicity and as to the worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to
bless me, I give and dispose of it in the following manner.  I give and bequeath
unto my nephew Robert Foster all my Land and Negroes, likewise to be at his
proper and sole will and disposal forever.  I then give and bequeath unto my
brother John Ellis all the rest with the other _______________ of personal Esate
to be at his sole will and disposal forever.  I then give and bequeath unto my
beloved sister Lucy Foster my wearing clothes and side sattle to be at her
proper and sole will and disposal forever.  I then give and bequeath unto my
other brothers Radford and William Ellis, and my nephew Willis Ellis each twenty
shillings sterling money to be paid out of personal Estate above mentioned and
to be paid unto them by my Nephew Robert Foster and John Ellis jointly and in
the manner which may be most convenient and agreeable to them.  And lastly, I
hereby nominate and appoint my nephew Robert Foster & John Ellis Joint Executors
of this my last will & Testament, revoking and disannulling all and every other
will & Testament in any manner made or done by me & ratifying and confirming
this and no other to be my last will & Testament.  In witness whereof I here
unto set my hand & affix my seal this fifteenth day of January in the year of
our Lord One thousand Eight hundred.

						Mary Giles (x – her mark)

Signed sealed published &
declared by Mary Giles as 
her last will & Testament
before and in the presence of 

Jesse Adams
Elizah Veath
John Ommit (x – his mark)


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