Statewide County NcArchives Wills.....Blount, Thomas 1706
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Source: Nc Wills & Inventories - Grimes
Written: 1706

                  THOMAS BLOUNT'S WILL.

NORTH CAROLINA.
 IN YE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, Thomas Blount, being in 
perfect health and sound Memory, Do make this my last will 
& testiment, thereby Revoke all former Wills & testements 
wtever in manr. & form following, viz:
 Impr. I Do give & Bequeath my soul to God yt gave it, 
Hopeing throw yr mercy & Merett of our Ld. & Saviour Jesus 
Christ. to receive a full & Genl. pardon of all my Sins; and my 
body to ye earth, there to be Desently Intered, acording to ye 
rits of ye Church of Engl., by my Execr. hereafter Named.
 Item. Whereas, by a former Will I have given Half my 
moveable Estate, & two plantations, known by ye names of 
Midle plantation, & yt whereon I now live at ye mouth of 
Hendricks Creek, to my ever loving wife, Mary Blount, & 
her issue (provided it be to ye children Begotten of her body 
by me Thomas Blount), after her Death, I Do confirm and 
make good ye same unto her, by this my will, in man'r. as is 
above expresst.
 Item. As to ye Part of my Estate, both real and personal, 
I give and bequeath as following: unto my son, James Blount, 
his Chare of two negroes out of ye other halfe of my sd Estate, 
and my shoope of smith tooles, with ye anvell, belows, & all 
other tooles thereunto belonging, wt. the Iron & Steel & files, 
and half ye tract of land Called Cobbin Necke, yt is to say, ye 
Northerly part of ye plantation, to be included in ye part 
belonging to him & ye boye Bonner.
 Item. I do give & bequeath all my whole stocke of Cattle, 
to be equally Devided between my children begotting of sd. 
Mary Blount, my daughter, Billah, who has maryed to kellem 
tyler, to be excepted out of this gift, she having received her 
portion allready.
 Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter, Billah, aforesd. 
one silver spoon.
 Item. As to ye rest of my Estate, tis my will & Desire yt 
it should be brought to an apprismt & out of it pay unto my 
three daughters, Sarah Peirce, Christian Ludford, & Ann Wilson, 
these sums hereafter named, yt is to say, unto my Sarah tenne 
pound Sterl. to be paid in Country Commodity; to my daughter, 
Christian, twenty Pounds Sterl. to be pd. as aforesd. & to my 
daughter, Ann, twenty Pounds Sterl. to be paid in like manner: 
and in case of the death of any of my aforesd daughters, ye same 
to be pd to either of their heirs: & to each of them one silver 
spoon: & further I Do give unto either of my two daughters 
last named, being, Christian, & Ann, too yews and a Ram, to 
each of them, and in case my sd Estate so appraised, after 
the things before giving away, do not amounted to ye sd sumes 
of money, by me giveing them, my said daughters, to be paid 
proportionable out of w't it is apraised to: but if it shall amount
to more then it my further will & Desire yt my two sones, John 
and Thomas, shall have each of them a negro, & for want of 
negroes to have each of them five & twenty Pounds Sterl. 
apeace, to be pd in Country Comodity.
 Item. I do give and bequeath ye other half or Moitye of 
ye tract of land, called Cobbin Necke, unto my son, John, and 
his heirs; & for want of heirs, it to come to my sone, James, 
& his heir; and if my son, James shall dye w'tout heirs, his part 
to corn to my son John & his heirs.
 Item. As to ye rest of my Estate, after my wife's half paid 
and Delivered her, and my Above Legacys being paid as herein 
expressed, I Doe give & bequeath unto my son, James Blount, 
& his heirs forever, whom I make my full and sole Executer 
of this my last will and Testiment, Declaring & Publishing this 
to be soe: as,
 Witness my hand & seal, this third Day of September, in 
ye year of our Lord, Seventeen hundred & one, & in ye 13th. 
year of ye reign of our Soveraign L'd. William ye 3rd, King 
of England, &c.
                                 THOMAS BLOUNT (Seal)

 A Codicil to my Will: This is my further will & pleasure, yt 
ye legacys within my said Will giving & exprest, shall be pd. 
w'thin eighteen months after my decease. as, witness my hand 
& seal ye year and day abovesd.
                                 THOMAS BLOUNT (Seal)
 Signed & seald in presence of
     WM WILKISON.
     JOHN BLOUNT. 
     THOMAS GREEN.

                                            March 28th 1706.
The within will was proved before me the Honble: Thos. Cary, Esqr., 
D: Gov:, by ye oathes of Tho: Green & John Blount, who upon their oathe
Say that they did see ye within Tho: Blount, Sign, Seal, & acknowledge 
ye within written, to be his last Will & Testamt.
                                              THOMAS CARY.

Copied from Original Will filed in the Office of the Secretary of State.


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