Wake County, NC - Will & Estate Records

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John Atkins Junior Will of 1781, Transcribed from copy obtained from NC
State Archives

State of North Carolina
Wake County

In the Name of God Amen I John Atkins Junior of the State and County
aforesaid being very Sick and Weak of Body but thanks be to Almighty God of
perfect mind and memory, and calling to mind the uncertainty of [of] this
Life and that it appointed for all mankind once to die, do make and Ordain
this to be and contain my last Will and Testament, Principally and first of
all I recommend my Soul in to the hands of Almighty God who gave it to me in
great Hopes to receive the same again at the great Resurrection through the
merits of my Blessed Redeamor and that my Body may be decently Buried in
Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter Named and
respecting what Worldly Estate it hath been Please God to bestow on me or
Bless me with in this life I dispose of in the following manner (to wit,
Imprimis  after all my Just Debts are Discharged I give and Bequeath to my
Honoured Father John Atkins all and every part of my Estate Real and
Personall of what kindsoever to him and his Heirs forever.

Item  I hereby nominate and appoint my Loving Brothers William Atkins and
Nicholas Atkins my whole and sole Executors of this my Last Will and
Testament hereby Revoaking and making Null and Void all other Will or Wills
by me made acknowledging this & this only to be my last Will and Testament
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Eleventh day of
October A Dom. 1781

                               John (his X mark) Atkins Jr. {Seal}
Signed Sealed Published
And Declared by the Testator
To be his last will and Testament in Presence of
J. C. Rice (Jurat.)
Salley Atkins

Wake County. December Term 1781
Then was the within will proved in open court by the Oath of John Rice a
Witness thereto and ordered to be Recorded   J. Rice, Clk Ct.

Recorded in the Clerks Office of Wake County in Book A and pages (176 & 177)
this 17th day of January AD 1782   J. Rice, Clk Ct.

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