WAKE COUNTY, NC - Wills - William Moore - 1780

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Last Will and Testament of William Moore decd.

        In the Name of GOD Amen I William Moore of Wake County and St. 
Margarets parish being through the abondance Mercy and Goodness of God 
though Weak in Body of a Sound and disposing Sense & Memory do make 
Constitute Publish and Ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and 
form as following. 

First and Principal I Recommend my Soul in to the hands of Almighty God the
giver my Body to be desently buried in the Earth at the Discretion of my
Executors hereafter Mentioned.  Item My Will & desire is that is that first
my Just debts & funeral Charges be fully Satisfyed and paid.  Item I give
& Bequeath

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to my Son Lewis Moore four hundred & fifty Acres of land lying on little
lick Creek and One Negro Girl Calld Jude One Cow and Calf One feather Bed
and furniture to him and his Heirs forever.  Item I geve and bequeath to my
Son William Moore the Tract of Land I now dwell on Containing Two hundred
and eighty seven acres it being the same Tract as I bought of Nathaniel
Kimbrough to him & his Heirs.  Item  I give and bequeath to my Son John
Moore four hundred Acres of Land ajoining the Land I now Dwell on also
Joins Henry Warrens lines and John Bledsoe & also two hundred Acres of Land
part of a Entery Between me and John Bledsoe to him and his Heirs.  Item  I
give to my Son Edward Moore One Negro Girl calld Rose to him and his Heirs.

 Item  I give and bequeath to my Son Mark Moore One Negro Boy Called
Edomand One feather Bed & furniture to him and his Heirs.  Item  I give to
my Daughter Nancy Moore One feather Bed and furniture to her and her Heirs.

 Item  I give and bequeath to my Daughter Patty Moore One feather Bed to
her and her Heirs.  Item  I lend to my Wife Sarah Moore for Term of Life
all the remainder of my Estates of any kind or Nature Whatsoever, and after
her decease my Will and desire is that the above lent Estate should be
Equally divided Between my Daughtors that is to say betweeen daughter Mary
Moore Nancy Eliza Sarah, Susannah Patty, Tabby, Rebeckar, Rollans & Fanny
Moore which I give & Bequeath to them & their Heirs forever. I do hereby
Nominate and appoynt my Wife Sarah Moore and my Son Lewis Moore whole and
Sole Executors of this my last will and testament Revoaking and making Null
and Void all other will or Gifts by me heretofore made.  In testimony
hereof he the said William Moore hath hereunto Set his hand affixed his
Seal this Twenty second day of October in the Year of our Lord One thousand
Seven Hundred & Eighty

Signed Sealed & delivered                  William Moore   (Seal)
in presents of
John Gray
Dems. Speir (Jurat)
      his
Price  X    Hays
     mark

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