RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NC - WILLS - James Wesson, 12 Sep 1815
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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JAMES WESSON 
(transcribed by Lynn Elise Wesson; Chapel Hill, NC;  3/17/2002)

Recorded 8th March 1826
Entered MD page 58
Recorded at length Book F, page 51
Copied for Exors.
Rutherford County, NC

I make this my last will and testament and first of all I Commend my Soul to
god who give it and my body to be buried in a christian manner and I will my
wife Nancy the land where I now live and all the stock horses cattle and hogs
and all the housel furniture During her life an widowhood and then the stock
and furniture to be eaquely Divided between Henry and Clarymon and William and
Luke and Rebeca Pearson and Edward Clanton and the land to be devided Eaquely
between the boys Henry and William and Luke and Edward Clanton.  Henry to have
the upper part of the land William the Next and Luke the Next and Edward
Clanton the home Plantation after my Debts and lagesis is paid.  I also leave
my daughter Patcey thirty dollars and my daughter Nancey thirty dollars to be
paid at the descresion of the Executiours.  That tract of land on yances
branch of two hundred acres I leave to be sold and one half of the money to be
left in the executiours hands to buy land for the boys the other half to be
Eaquely devided between my two Daughters Clarymon and Rebeca Pearson and I
allow Rebecca Pearson, William, and Luke to have one years Schooling Each and
Edward Clanton two to be paid out of the Estate as witness my hand this 12th
Day of September 1815.

							his
             his				James    X      Weson
     Jessey   X    Marshal				mark
             mark


             his				Nancy  Weson
     James    X    Dollar                       Henry Weson   Executiours
             mark


     Willis Putman   (Jurat)

               his
     Richard    X      Marshal
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State of North Carolina
Rutherford County
Court of Probate
March Term 1826

The written Last Will and Testament was presented in open court for probate; 
Willis Putman one of the subscribing witnesses thereto proved the same in the 
usual form; when it was ordered to be Recorded (by the Court)
						Certified
                                                         By     J. Craton  Clk
								H. B M_____ DC