Rowan County NcArchives Wills.....McGuire, Sr., James November 1, 1825
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Source: Copy Of Original Will
Written: November 1, 1825

In the name of God amen!  I JAMES McGUIRE Sen. Of the County of Rowan and 
State of North Carolina being at present infirm of body, but of sound mind, 
memory and judgement, do hereby publish and declare this to be my last will 
and testament and do will and bequeth, and demise as follows - 

To my beloved wife ELENOR McGUIRE the whole of the chatel property now in my 
possession, and not otherwise dispose 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 gifts made and hereby confirmed to my daughters POLLEY, and SARAH and 
herein and hereby made good, binding, and valid - 

In confirmation whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affected my seal 
this 1st day of November in the year of our Lord God One Thousand Eight 
Hundred and Twenty Five

                                          JAMES McGUIRE (seal)

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of
SAMUEL McFEE 
JOHN MAXWELL
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Rowan County February Sessions 1826
I hereby certify that the withing will was duly proven in open court by the 
oath of John Maxwell recorded and registered in Book H, Page 338
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Additional Comments:
James McGuire, Sr. was born about 1760 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and 
died January 28, 1826 in Rowan County, North Carolina.  He married Eleanor 
Luckey, daughter of Samuel Luckey, Sr. and Mary.  James and Eleanor had seven 
children, David, Samuel, Thomas, Eleanor, Sarah, Polly, and James, Jr.  James 
McGuire, Jr.’s biography, dated 1872, placed in the Atlas of Jersey County, 
Illinois states his parents, James McGuire, Sr. and Eleanor Luckey were both 
natives of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and originally of Irish descent.  
James, Jr.’s biography also states Eleanor Luckey arrived from Lancaster 
County, Pennsylvania to North Carolina at the age of 13 with her parents.  It 
was in North Carolina where James McGuire and Eleanor Luckey became acquainted 
and married.  They both died in Rowan North Carolina.

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