Surry County NcArchives Wills.....Forrester, Thomas April 8, 1777
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Source: Surry Co. Wils, Vol. 1, P. 90-91
Written: April 8, 1777
Recorded: February 1778

In The Name of God Amen

I Thomas Forrester of the Province of North Carolina & County of Surry being
Sick and weak of Body but of Perfect Senses and memory Blessed be God for the
Same do make Constitute & Ordain this my Last Will & Testament (Viz) and first
of All I give my Soul to him that Gave it me, and my Body to buried by
Executors Hereafter named and as to the Worldly Goods wherewith it hath
Pleased God to bless Me I give in the Manner & form Following.
Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Dear Wife Milret The Plantation Whereon I Now
live Together with all my Household Goods & Stock of all Kinds During Life.
Item.  I Give and Bequeath to my Son Hezekiah One Improvement Situate in the
County of Surry Joining the Improvement of Thomas Dunagin on The East Side of
the Arrarrat.
Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Son James one Plantation Situate in the County
of Surry Joining the Improvement of David Allen on the west Side of the
Ararat.  
Item.  At the Decease of my Wife Milret it is my Will & Pleasure That my Son
John to be Possessd with my Mannor Plantation. 
Item. It is my will & Pleasure that my Son William have a Parcel of Woodland
Ground above my Mannor Beginning at a Drean above my Mannor Fence and So on Each
Side up Hogans Creek as far as a survey will Extend. 
In Witness whereof I set my hand & Seal this 8th of April in the year of our
Lord 1777.

Thomas Forrester (seal)

Sealed & Delivered
In Presence of us 

Alex. Hawkins
Thos. Meers
Charles Roland

I Appoint my Dear Wife Miltret Executrex
of this My Last Will & Testament

North Carolina Surry County Feby Court 1778.
Thomas Meers one of the subscribing Witnesses to the Within Last Will &
Testament of Thomas Forrester Made Oath that He saw the said Thomas Forrester
Publish and Declare the Same to be his last will & Testament that he was Sound
Disposing mind and memory and that at the same time he saw Alex Hawkins &
Charles Roland Sign the Same as Witnesses.
And on Motion it was ordered to be Recorded. 

Recorded Accordingly by Jo Williams CC    

 




Additional Comments:
Current research indicates that this is the Thomas Forrester who married Mildred
Dogens in Virginia. His son John Dogens Forrester was a Revolutionary War
veteran whose wife's Rev. War pension application and the marriage of his son
Fielding place him in Surry Co. prior to 1790. John Dogens Forrester moved to
Tennessee and died in Robertson Co. in 1815. Thomas' son James Forrester
remained in Surry Co. and died there in 1837. 

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