Graham, Richard - 1779 - Rowan Co., NC - Wills Submitted to the USGenWeb Project by Nina Mack HISTMOM@aol.com PAGE 1 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN SEVENTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ON THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT I RICHARD GRAHAM SEN. OF ROWAN COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA BEING SICK AND WEAK IN BODY BUT OF PERFECT MIND AND THANKS TO GIVEN UNTO GOD AND CALLING TO MIND MY MORTALITY AND THAT IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN ONCE TO DIE DO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT FIRST OF ALL I RECOMMEND MY SOUL UNTO THE HANDS OF GOD THAT GAVE IT AND MY BODY TO THE EARTH TO BE BURIED IN A DECENT CHRISTIAN BURIAL AT THE DISCRETION OF MY EXECU- TORS HERE AFTER NAMED NOTHING DOUBTING BUT TO EXERT THE SAME AGAIN AT THE GENERAL RESURRECTION BY THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD HOPING THROUGH THE MERITS AND INTERCESSION OF MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST TO RECIEVE A FULL AND FREE PARDON OF MY SINS AND TO INHERIT EVERLASTING LIFE AND AND AS TOUCHING SUCH WORLDLY ESTATE WHEREWITH IT HAS PLEASED GOD TO BLESS ME WITH IN THIS LIFE. I GIVE DEVISE BEQUEATH AND DISPOSE OF THE SAME FOLLOWING MANNER AND FORM FIRST OF ALL I WILL THAT ALL THOSE DEBTS AND DUTIES AS I DO OWE ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER EITHER IN RIGHT OR CONSCIENCE BE FIRST PAID AND SATISFIED OR CONTRIVED TO BE PAIN IN CONVENIENT TIME BY MY EXECUTORS HEREIN AFTER NAMED. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY LOVING WIFE AGNES HER BED AND THE FURNITURE THERE UNTO BELONGING AND THE DRESSER AND AND WHAT THEREIN IS OR WHAT THERE UNTO BELONGS INCLUDING POTS AND ALL VESSELS COOKERY DURING HER LIFE AND TO HER HEIRS AND ASSIGNS AND FOR MY SAID LOVING WIFE TO GIVE MY DAUGHTER ELEANOR SUCH PART OR PARCEL THEREOF AS SHE THINKS PROPER ALSO I GIVE AND DEVISE TO MY SAID LOVING WIFE AGNES A MAIR (MARE) NAMED TUG AND A ROAN. HORSE NAMED ROCK AND ALL THE SHEEP EX- CEPT ELEANORS TWO, THREE MILK COWS OF HER OWN CHOOSING AND A TWO YEAR OLD STEEY BEAST AND TWO NEGROES NAMED SAMSON AND DINAH AND A PLOW AND HACKLINGS AND WHAT PART THE LAND SHE SEES CAUSE TO LABOUR, MY BIBLE AND FORTY POUNDS IN GOLD AND FORTY POUNDS PAPER MONEY A NEW SADLE AND BRIDLE, THE ONE HALF OF THE HOGS THE CORN AND AS MUCH FLOWER (FLOUR) AS SHE SEES CAUSE TO KEEP HER TILL HARVEST AND A SUFFICIENCY OF ALL PAGE 2 KINDS OF FORAGE OF EVERY SORT I HAVE FOR HER BEASTS, ALL TO HER AND HER HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER EXCEPT THE NEGRO SAMSON, WHICH AT SAID AGNES DEATH I WILL AND BEQUEATH THE SAID NEGRO SAMSON TO MY SON JOSEPH AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER .................. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY SON JAMES A NEGRO WENCH NAMED SALL AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER ................. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY SON WILLIAM A NEGRO WENCH WHICH IS NOW IN HIS POSSESSION AND ALSO A NEGRO MAN NAMED TOM TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER ALSO I GIVE AND DEVISE TO MY SON WILLIAM MY SOUTH PATENTS AND MY RIGHT OF THE LAND BY THEM MENTIONED AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER ............................ ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH AND DEVISE TO MY MY SON RICHARD ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE ACRES OF LAND OF THE PLACE WHERE I LIVE TO BE LAND OF OFF THE EAST END OF SAID PLACE JOINING JOHN LOCK BY A DIRECT LINE FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF WITHROWS CREEK AND A NEGRO BOY NAMED HARRY ALSO THE NEGRO WENCH THAT HE HAVE IN HIS POSSESSION AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER ............................................. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH AND DEVISE TO MY SON JOSEPH THE REMAINDER OF THE PLANTATION WHERE I NOW LIVE AND TWO NEGRO CHILDREN THE ONE NAMED FLORA AND THE OTHER NAMED PETER AND ONE COW AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER ................................................ ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY DAUGHTER JANE MY NEGRO WENCH CALLED BET AND TO HER HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER ............... ITEM I GIVE AN BEQUEATH TO MY DAUGHTER ELEANOR THE BED AND FURNITURE WHICH I CALLED BY HER NAME AND HER THIS. ALSO A NEGRO WENCH NAMED HANNAH TWO COWS AND HER CHOICE OF THE REMAINDER OF THE HORSES THAT IS NOT HEREIN BEQUEATHED HER SADLE AND BRIDLE TO HER AND HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER ............................................ ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY DAUGHTERS MARY A NEGRO CHILD NAMED TOM. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY DAUGHTER AGNES ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS CURRENT MONEY AND TO HER HEIRS AND ASSIGNS. PAGE 3 ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY DAUGHTER ELSE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS CURRENT MONEY AND TO HER HEIRS AND ASSIGNS. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY GRANDSON JOHN MY SON JAMES SON TEN POUNDS CURRENT MONEY AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY GRANDSON RICHARD, JAMES GILLESPEYS SON TEN POUNDS CURRENT MONEY AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY GRANDSON RICHARD MY SON WILLIAMS SON TEN POUNDS AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS .............. ITEM MY WILL AND PLEASURE IS THAT MY WAGON THAT IS NOW A MAKING BE PROPERLY FITED AND COMPLETED OUT OF THE RESIDUE OF MY ESTATE AND TO BE USED POSSESSED AND ENJOYED IN COMMON BY MY LOVING WIFE AGNES AND MY SONS RICHARD AND JOSEPH ........................... ITEM MY WILL AND PLEASURE IS THAT THE RESIDUE AND REMAINDER OF MY PERSONAL ESTATE BE EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONGST MY FOUR SONS JAMES, WILLIAM, RICHARD AND JOSEPH AND ALSO MY DAUGHTER ELINOR TO HAVE AN EQUAL DIVIDE SAME ALONG WITH MY FOUR SONS ............. ITEM I NAME NOMINATE CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT MY TWO SONS JAMES GRAHAM AND WILLIAM GRAHAM EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT HEREBY REVOKING AND DIANULING ALL FORMER AND OTHER WILLS BEQUEATHS DEVISES AND EXECUTORS BY ME NAMED IN ANY WAY NAMED BEQUEATHED OR DEVISED HERESO FORE RATIFYING AND CONFIRMING THIS AND NO OTHER TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT SIGNED AND SEALED PUBLISHED PRONOUNCED AND DECLARED BY THE SAID RICHARD GRAHAM AS HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THE PRESENTS OF US HIS HENRY BERKLY MARK SAML. YOUNG RICHD. GRAHAM (SEAL) ELIZABETH E. BRANDON 11TH DAY OF JANUARY 1779 RICHARD GRAHAM ADDED A CODICIL TO HIS WILL BEQUEATHED ANOTHER BED AND FURNITURE TO HIS LOVING WIFE AGNES TO BE A PART AND PARCEL OF HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. ============================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogy information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. 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