Rowan County NcArchives Wills.....McGuire, James November 1, 1825
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Source: Original Will
Written: November 1, 1825
Recorded: 1826

Book H - Page 338     February Sessions 1826
In the name of God amen.  I JAMES McGUIRE Ser. of the County of Rowan and 
State of North Carolina being at present infirm of body – but of sound mind 
memory and Judgment – do hereby publish and declare this to be my last Will 
and Testament and do will bequeath and demise as follows:  To my beloved wife 
ELENOR McGUIRE the whole of the chattel property now in my possession and not 
otherwise disposed of to do with after my decease, as she shall judge best for 
the benefit of our family, and further it is my will that the Deeds given to 
my sons DAVID, SAMUEL, AND JAMES and my daughter ELENOR together with my 
article of agreement with my son THOMAS and my deed of Gift made and hereby 
confirmed to my daughters POLLY & SARAH are herein and hereby made good 
binding and valid.  In confirmation whereof I have hereunto set my land and 
affix my seal this 1st day of November in the year of our Lord God One 
Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Five – 
Signed Sealed and Delivered in Presence of 
SAMUEL McAFFEE                                JAMES McGUIRE (seal)
JOHN MAXWELL


Additional Comments:
James McGuire, Sr. a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was born about 
1760 (unknown parents) and died on January 28, 1826 in Rowan County, NC.  He 
married Eleanor Luckey, also a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 
Rowan County, North Carolina.  James and Eleanor had seven children, David 
McGuire (husband of Famiel “Fannie” Hamm), Samuel McGuire (husband of 
Arminta “Minty” Kelly), Thomas McGuire (never married), Mary Eleanor “Nelly” 
McGuire Turner (wife of Alexander Turner, Sr.), James McGuire, Jr. (never 
married), Sarah “Sallie” McGuire (never married - mother of Dr. James 
McGuire), and Mary “Polly” McGuire (never married).

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