Blair, James - 1800 - Rowan County, NC - Wills

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In the name of God Amen:  This 10 day of December A.D. 1800.  I James
Blair of the State of N. Carolina and county of Rowan being in good
health and perfect mind and memory thanks be to God therefore calling to
mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed one for all 
men to die.  Do make ordain & constitute this my last will & test: That is 
to say prinsipally and first of all I give & recomend my soul unto the hands 
of God that gave it & as for my body I recomend it to be buried in a christian
like manner at the discretion of my executors by me hereafter nemed, nothing
doubting but at the general resurrection I shall recieve the same again
by the almighty power of God.  And as touching such worthy estate where
with it had pleased God to bless me with I give, desire & dispose in the 
following manner & form to acct.
   1.  I give will and bequeath to my beloved wife Hannah blair her dower
according to law and also over and above one horse  mare and her colt and
two milk cows, taking her choise out of my stock of cattle, & also her bed
& furniture.
   2. I give will & bequeath to my two daughters by my first marriage that
is to say Thomas MC Cartney's wife and Nathaniel Souders wife.  To Thomas
McCartneys wife I give and bequeath her ten pounds over & above what she
has already received & to Nathaniel Souders wife I give and bequeath fifteen
pounds over & above what she has already received to be paid out of my
movable estate one year after my death.
   3.  I give & bequeath to my son James all that tract and parcell of land
lying an being at the east side of swearing creek.  The Creek to be the
line between that and my other land.
   4. I give and bequeath to my two sons Smith & Andrew Blair all that
tract & parcel of land lying & being in the west side of swearing creek,
on which I now live to be equally divided between them that is to say after
they arise at the age of twenty one years.  They should each of them choose
a man to value the land after it is divided, who shall say the difference
that may be between them & the one that recieves the most valuable part I bind
to make good the difference in value by paying the other in money what is
agreed on by these men so choosen, & if these men so choosen can not agree as to
the difference in value for them to choose a third man whose decision shall be
final.  I do give and bequeath to my son Smith one horse one horse
crature & one bed & furniture  I also give & bequeathe to my son Andrew one
bay May Mare & one bed & furniture.
   5. I give & bequeath to my threee daughters by my last marriage, that is
to say Rachell that was married to Wil M. Carson one bed and beding one
cow which all is in my posession & to my daughter Mary I give & bequeath
one bed & beding which she has received & five pounds in money I give &
bequeath to my daughters Fanny one bed and furniture & one cow.
   6. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Hannah one negro man by name
Jass during her natural life and at her death I desire that he may be
sold & the money to be equally divided between the children by my last
marriage.
   7.  I desire after the legacies above mentioned are all paid, if their
should be any thing remaining that it should be equally divided between
all my children by my last marriage.
    And I do hereby make ordain, constitute and appoint my trusty friend
Edwd Chambers executor of this my last will & testament hereby rearing all 
former wills by me made.

Signed, sealed & pronounced by the said James Blair as his last will &
testament in presence of us.


Beace Williams                                          his
Cesar Smith                                        James X Blair   SEAL
                                                        Mark



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