WAKE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Rebecca Jones Rench, 8 May 1801
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			WILL OF REBECCA JONES RENCH
			Estate File No. 238, Page 334
				Superior Court
         		Wake County, North Carolina	
				  8 May 1801
						
				      334

Rebecca Wrench's Will   Etc. (?)

In the name of God Amen, I Rebachah Wrench of the County of Wake in the State 
of North Carolina being weak in body but sound in mind & memory, do this 
eighth day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and one, 
do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following.  That is 
to say
First.  I give unto my daughter Charity Utley my negroe woman Nancy, and my 
negroe Girl Lotty, and their increase unto my said daughter Charity Utley, her 
Heirs and assigns forever ----I give unto my said daughter Charity Utley my 
Cows, Stears, Calves, and all my Cattle of any age or size, and unto the Heirs 
and assigns  of my said daughter Charity Utley forever---- Item.  I give unto 
my said daughter Charity Utley , my two feather Beds, and the sheets, rug or 
Rugs, blanket, or Blankets, with all things belonging to said Beds and to her 
Heirs and Assigns forever.    Item, I give unto my said daughter Charity Utley 
my Tin Coffee, pot my Tea Pot, and Saucers, and also my Linnen Wheel, and unto 
her Heirs and Assigns forever. --- I desire my daughters Patience Jones, Sally 
Morris and Charity Utley may take my wearing Cloths, and my said Daughter 
Charity Utley, may divide the said Cloths amongst you and the rest of her 
Sisters, Leah Richardson, Rachel Peddy, & Rebeckas Mathes that each of said 
women may have a share of my said Cloths and to their Heirs and Assigns 
forever.
Item, I give to each of my daughters hereafter mentioned named, Leah 
Richardson, Rachel Peddy, and Rebeckah Mathes, Sally Morris, and Petience 
Jones five shillings that is twenty-five shillings to be equally divided 
between them. ----
Item, I give to my son Jesse Jones five shillings.
I give to my son Russel Jones five shillings -- and I give the five shillings 
a piece as before given being five shillings only and no more to each of my 
five last-mentioned daughters and my said two sons to them their Heirs and 
Assigns forever, and desire the said Money to be paid out of the part of my 
Estate not otherwise mentioned in Gifts to any person, and I desire that after 
my decease my body may be buried decently and 
the expinces of my burial I desire may be paid out of the same part of my 
Estate that the money herein mentioned is desired to be paid out of.  I give 
unto my son Etheldred Jones the remaining part of  my Estate not herein before 
given, nor mentioned in Gifts to any person, nor applied to any of the 
aforesaid payments and I give the said remaining part of my Estate to him my 
said son Etheldrd Jones his Heirs and Assigns forever.  I appoint my said son 
Etheldred Jones and John Utley Jun. Executors of this my last Will & 
Testament.


Signed Sealed &					   her
in the presence of			Rebeckah    x    Wrench    (Seal)
Augustine Jones                                    mark
Hardy  Marrel


(Notes:  Rebecca -------- married Philip Jones about 1740 in North Carolina.  
Philip Jones was the son of Henry and Catherine  ---  Jones.  Philip died in 
1760.  Rebecca Jones married John Rench in 1764 in Johnston County, North 
Carolina.  In their marriage contract on 28 July 1764, Rebecca's children by 
Philip Jones are named as Etheldred, Jesse, Russell, Leah, Rachel, and 
Rebecca, Jun'r.  John had a son, John,Jr.
John and Rebecca had three daughters – Charity, Sally, Patience.  Rebecca 
Rench died 21 October 1804, Wake County, North Carolina.)