WAKE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Nathaniel Kimbrough, 12 Jul 1781
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[Copy received from North Carolina State Archives]

In the Name of God Amen

I Nathaniel Kimbrough of Wake County & State of North Carolina being sick & 
weak in Body but of Sound mind and Memory Make this my Last will & Testament 
makeing nul & voyd all other will or Wills by me heretofore made & first & 
foremost I give & Bequeath my Soule to God that first gave it to me & my Body 
to be Desently Entred at the Disires-sion of my Executors & as to my worldly 
Estate I give & Bequeath in Manner & form following viz,

Item I give & Bequeath to my Loveing wife Mary one Negroe man named Davy one 
Negroe woman namd Jude one Negroe Boy named Stafford & one Negroe man 
Blacksmith named Granville & one set of Blacksmiths Tools & one third part of 
all my House-hold & Kitching furniture one Eighth part of all my Stock of 
Horses Cattle Hogs Sheep or to her her Heirs & assigns forever also the use of 
the land & plantation whereon I now live Dureing her Natureal Life or 
widowhood

Item I give & Bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Warren One Negroe Boy named 
Ben one Negroe Girl named Darkess & all my Right to a Negro Boy named Same one 
Horse Bridle & saddle one Feather bed & furneture all which Negroes & things 
are already Delivered & all that other part of my Estate now in her possession 
to her her heirs & assigns forever

Item I give & Bequeath to my Daughter Ann Moore one Negroe man Named Davy one 
Negroe Girl named Winney & all my Right & Title to a Negro Boy named Jesse one 
horse Bridle & saddle one Feather bed & Furneture all which Negroes & things 
is allready Delivered to her with all that other Part of my Estate already in 
her possion [sic] to her her Heirs & assigns forever

Item I Give & bequeath to my Grandaughter Sarah Kimbrough Daughter of my 
Daughter Charity one Negro Girl named Silvy to her her Heirs & assigns forever

Item I give & Bequeath to my sons John & James all my Lands to be Equally 
Devided Between Them when they come of age or marry & Each of their parts I 
give to them their Heirs & assigns forever

Item My will is that all my Estate Real & personal not heretofore mentioned 
shall Remain togeather until one of my Children (that is now unmarried) comes 
of age or Marrys & then to be Equally devided Between my Daughter Charity my 
Daughter Gilley my Daughter Penney my Son John my Son James my Daughter Polley 
& my Daughter Salley & the one that first marrys or comes of age to take their 
Equal part out of that part of my Estate & the Remaining part to continue 
togeather untill the next Child Comes of age or marris & so on Unto the Last & 
all & Each of their Parts I give to them their Heirs & assigns forever

I nominate & appoint my Brother John Kimbroug [sic] my son John [there should 
probably be a comma after "John" but there's not a comma in the original] 
Henry Warren John Hinton Junr & Thomas Hines whole & sole Executors to this my 
last Will & Testament in witness whereof I hereunto set my Hand & seal y 
Twelvth July A. D. M 1781

Nathl Kimbrough {seal}

Signed Sealed & acknowledgd
in presents of
James (his X mark) [Nithel ?] Jurat
Swann (his A mark) Thompson
Lewis Moore Jurat

Wake County December Term 1781. [This ?] was the Execution of the within Will 
duly proved in Open Court by the Oaths of James Mitchell and Lewis Moore 
Witness there to and Ordered to be Recorded

Test
J. Ri[illegible] C

Recorded in the Clerks office of Wake County in Book A and page (147) this [12 
? 15 ?] of Sepm 1783

J [Rice ?] C

[On the back of the second page of the will is written - ]

Nathl Kimbroughs
Will
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Recorded
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[On another part of the back of the second page of the will is written - ]

N Kimbrough Decr 6 1781
Will.