Rowan Co. NC - WILL:  Joseph Robins - 1754

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Joseph Robins
Last Will and Testament
18 November 1754, Rowan Co., NC
(Original Will, Secretary of State Records, North Carolina State Archives)

In the Name of God Amen I Joseph Robins of Rowan County in the Province
of North Carolina being at this time very Sick and week in body but
thanks be to Almighty God of Sound Sence and Memory and knowing it is
ordained for all men to Die, I have thought fitt to make my last Will and
Testament Which I do in Manner and form following. -
First and Principally I recomend my Soul unto the hands of Almighty God
who gave it me hoping that through the Meritorious Death and Passion of
my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I Shall receive a Glorious Resurrection.
And as to my Worldy Estate that it hath pleased God to Indowe me with I
give and bequeath in Manner and form following
Imprimiss I give to my son Joseph Robin and his heirs and assigns for
ever the plantation called the old place with four hundred acres of Land
Round it, I also give to my Said Son Joseph Six Cowes One bay horse and
One bay Mair
Item  I give to my Son William Robins and his heirs for ever Two hundred
and Sisty Six acres with the plantation theron where I now live, I also
Give to my Said Son William four Cowes and Two Heiphirs and my Stalion
Colt and a young Mair
Item  I Give to my Son John Robins and his heirs for ever One hundred and
Twenty Six acres of Land that I purchased of John Brethong, Also I Give
to my Said Son John Two Cowes and a Gray Mair
Item  I Give to my Daughter Elenor Robins one feather bed and furniture
and Two Cowes and Calves
Item I Give to my Loving Wife Elenor my paceing Mair and all the rest of
my Effects of what Nature or quality not before Given away I lend to my
loving Wife Elenor during her Natural Life, And lastly I Do hereby
appoint my Said Loving Wife and my bother[sic] in Law John Nation
Executors of this my Last Will and Testament  And I Do here by Revoke and
Dissannul all other Will or [-?-] by me at any time Hereto made And I Do
hereby Acknowledge this to be my Last will and Testament  In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Eighteenth day of
November Anno Domeny One thousand Seven Hundred and fifty four -
Signed Sealed and
Published in the                             Joseph Robins
Preesence of
       AJ Smith
       Ch Nation
                   [his]
       Richard  R  Robins
                 [mark]

Recorded in Court April 1756
Recorded in the Secretarys Office in Book No. 9 folio 134


[Transcribed by John L. German, C.G. on 21 August 1999.]