Tyrrell County NcArchives Wills.....Blount, Edmund 1754
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Source: Nc Wills & Inventories - Grimes
Written: 1754

                EDMUND BLOUNT'S WILL.

  IN YE NAME OF GOD AMEN, the 12th. Day of Febuary, In 
ye year of our Lord, 1754, I, Edmund Blount, of ye County 
of Tyrrell, Being very Sick and weak in Body but of 
perfect Mind and memory, thanks be given unto god for ye 
Same, and Calling to mind ye mortality of my body & Knowing 
that it is appointed for All men once to die, do make and ordain 
this my Last will and Testament, that is to Say principally 
and first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into ye hands 
of god that gave it and My Body I Recommend it to ye Earth 
to be Buried in a Christian Like and Decent Manner at ye 
Descretion of my Executors Nothing Doubting But at ye 
General Resurrection I Shall Receive ye Same again by ye 
mighty power of god, and as touching Such worldly Estate 
wherewith it hath pleased god to Bless Me in this Life I give 
Devise and Dispose of the Same In ye following manner and 
form:
  Imprimeses, I Give to my well Beloved Son, Edmund Blount, 
my manner plantation with all ye Land Belonging to it.
  Item. I give and Bequeath to my well beloved wife, Elisa- 
beth, one third part of all my movable Estate.
  Item. I Desire that Each of my Children Excepting my 
Son, Edmund, may Have one Cow and Calf apeice, and ye 
Remainder part of my Estate I will that it Go to ye maintain- 
ence of my Children.
  Item. and I do make ordain and appoint my wife, Eliza- 
beth, Executrix, and Benjamin Blount Executor of this my 
last will and testament, and I do hereby utterly Disalow, 
revoke and Disanull all and Every other former testaments, 
wills and Legacies, Bequests and Executors by me in any ways 
Before this time named, willed, and Bequeathed, Ratifying 
and Confirming this and no other to be my last will and Tes- 
tament.
  In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal 
ye day and year above written.
                                   his
                             EDMUND E BLOUNT.
                                   mark

  Signed, Sealed and Delivered 
by ye sd. Edmund Blount as his 
last Will and testament in ye pres- 
ents of us ye Subscribers, Viz:
               BENJAMIN BLOUNT.
               JACOB BLOUNT.

NORTH CAROLINA, TYRELL COUNTY. SS.            June Court, 1754.
  These may Certify that Jacob Blount, one of the Subscribing Evidences
to the within will appeared in Open Court and made Oath on the Holy
Evangelists of Almighty God that he Was present & Saw Edmund Blount, 
Deceased, Sign, Seal, publish, pronounce & Declare the within writing to 
be & Contain his Will and Testament, and that he was then and at that 
time of sound & Disposing Memory; & that he also Saw Benjamin, the 
other Subscribing Evidence, sign his name thereunto at the Same time. 
Then Also Appeared Elizabeth Blount, wife of the Deceased, and Quallified
as Executrix by taking the Oath by Law Appointed for the Quallification 
of Executors. Ordered that the Honble. James Murray, Esqr., Secretary 
of this Province, have notice thereof that Letters Testamentory issue 
thereon as the Law Directs.
                              Test, EVAN JONES, CIer. Cur.

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