Rowan County NcArchives Wills.....Mabry, George December 15, 1770 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bob & Linda Ellis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004075 March 5, 2008, 11:50 pm Source: Rowan Co., Nc - Will Book A – Page 101 Written: December 15, 1770 Recorded: December 15, 1770 George Mabry Will Rowan County, NC Written 15 Dec 1770 In the name of God, Amen, I George Mabry being in good health, praise God, & of a sound and perfect sense of memory, praise God for it, do appoint this my Last Will and Testament. Item – I leave unto my beloved wife Martha and to her use during her life or widowhood all my household goods with three feather beds and with their furniture and my stock of horses and mares and all my cattle and all my hogs and further my will is that I leave unto my beloved wife during her life or widowhood seven Negroes to wit Cussac and Chanesworth and Fidillor, a negro minor Esia and Sam and Little Chanes and Sall a Negro girl as further my will is that after my wife’s decease or if she should marry or which shall happen first. Item – I give unto my beloved son John Mabry a Negro fellow named Andy Chanceworth to him and his heirs forever. Item – I give unto my beloved son Isaac Mabry a Negro fellow named Old Cussa and Sam a Negro boy to him and his heirs forever. Item – I give unto my beloved son James Mabry a Negro boy and Little Chanes and Sall a Negro girl to him and his heirs forever. And my will is that my son James Mabry is to take care of my beloved daughter Lusa during her life as she is not able to take care of herself. And my will is further as after my wife’ decease or the day of her marriage which shall happen first that all my household goods two feather beds and furniture and all my stock of horses and mares and cattle and hogs to be sold by my son James Mabry & out of the money received my son James is to pay all my just debts out of that money raised and the over-plus to be equally divided amongst my daughters Susannah Jackson and Ruttha Carter and Sarah Williams and Martha Worso(?) and Francis Ellis. Witness my hand & seal this fifteenth day of December 1770. My will is further that I give unto my daughter Lusa Mabry her featherbed & that to be in the care of my son James Mabry. Witness my hand and seal. George Mabry (x – his mark) December Fifteenth 1770 John Kimbrough M(ason) Kimbrough Rowan Co., NC Will Book A – page 101 Transcribed by Bob & Linda Ellis, Duluth GA File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rowan/wills/mabry422wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb