Wake County, NC - Will & Estate Records

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Wake Co., NC Will Book 23, pp. 418-419, File 660, November Term 1835:

In the name of God Amen I James Spight of Wake County and State of North
Carolina being in sound
disposing mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do this twenty-eight
day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
four make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form
following.  To wit,
Item 1st I Recommend my Soul to God who give it and my body to the clay from
whence it came to be burried in a decent manner at the direction of my
executors whom I shallhereafter name, And to such worldly estate as I have,I
give and dispose of the same in the manner and form following (to wit)
Item 2nd I give to my Daughter Lucinda one years schooling--
Item 3rd I give to my Daughter Eliza two Years Schooling --
Item 4th I give to my Daughter Louisa six Years Schooling ---
Item 5th I give to my Daughter July Seven Years Schooling--
Item 6th I give to my Daughter Isabella Seven Years Schooling--
Item 7th my will and desire is that all the residue of my Estate, boath Real
and personal after paying my Just debts and the cost of carrying this will
into Execution, shall be Equally divided between my wife Polly Speight and
my several children.  (To wit) Rebekah Emeline Lucinda Eliza Louiza Juley &
Isabella Speight to them and their heirs and assigns forever And lastly my
friends, Aulsey Hunter, P. B. Burt Executors to this my last Will and
testament.  In witness whereof I, the said James Speight have here unto set
my hand & seal this day & date first ____
Signed sealed in the presence of
Burrell Brown
Martin Jones James Speight (seal)
Leroy X(his mark) Taylor

I James Speight do make and ordain this a codicile to the within Will and
testament (viz)  My Will and desire is that Edmund Lane (?) have two negro
men by the names of Toby and Ben when he pays off claimes against him which
after payment as aforesaid I leave to him, his heirs and assigns forever.  I
also give and bequeath to my daughter Rebecca Moore six hundred and eight
acres of lands on the road leading to Avents Ferry being the same surveyed
by Woodson Clement?  for Nathl Jones, to her, her heirs and assigns forever
as a part of her part of my Estate, to be valued by disinterested persons.
Witness my hand and seal this day of
Signed & Sealed in
the presents of
Burrell Brown James Speight
Leroy x(his mark) Taylor

Henry Franklin witness as to Leroy Taylor Martin Jones

State of N. Carolina
Wake County Nov. Session 1835
The foregoing last Will and testament of James Spight was exhibited in
open Court for probate and the due exe__ thereof proved by the oaths of
burrell Brown Leroy taylor, two of the __ witnesses thereto--and the codicil
thereto annexed was proved by the same __ and the whole ordered to be
recorded. A. Williams, C.C.

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