Will of Sarah Jones Kendrick, 1793, Warren Co. NC Submitted by Peggy Wallace sereptha4@compuserve.com Will of Sarah Jones Kendrick, 1793, Warren County North Carolina. In the name of God Amen I Sarah Kendrick of the County of Warren State of North Carolina being Low in health but Sound in mind and disposing memory do make this my Last will and Testament Revoking all others of an earlier Date to the purpose. My Soul I recommend to Almight God who gave me it and my body to the Clay t be decently buried by my Friend hereafter named. I give my Benjamin Thornton one Feather Bed two sheets 1 bolster and 1 spoted counter pain and also 1 more new counterpain and one yearn Blanket and also five head of catle now in my possession and also there increase that they may have hereafter during my life and I also give and bequeath to him my before named Benjamin Thornton 1 horse now called & known by the name of the said Thornton's and also 1 mare I also give and bequeath to Him my said Thornton 1 pewter dish 6 plates & 1 bason and six spoons & 1 safe & ne Skillet and 2 flat Irns and all my plantation Tools and 1 wooling wheel and 2 pr of Cotton cards & 1 sitting chear and all my crop of all kinds of grain & Tobacco flax cotton peas & potatoes & meat of all kinds that I may die possessed of and all the money that may be in my possession of my own property & also give to my three daughters to be equally Divided all my clothes and not the _______ of my Executors to Wit: Mary Fox, Rebecca Nicholson, Marthy Wood, I hereby Nominate and appoint Benjamin Thornton & Wyatt Hawkins Excrs to this my Last Will and Testament in witness the hand and seal this 23rd Day of May Anno Dommini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Three. Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of: Her Sarah X Kendrick [interlined before us:] Mark Francis Hawkins Lucy Lamberth Her Sarah X Tucker Mark Wyatt Hawkins Warren County February Court 1796 Wyatt Hawkins proved this will in open court which is ordered to be recorded. Teste: M. Duke Johnson Inventory of William Kendrick's Estate. Warren County August Court 1796. This bond was executed in open Court and ordered to be recorded. Teste: M. Duke Johnson An Inventory of the Estate of William Kendrick Dec'd. To 3 beds 3 old counterpains 5 old sheats 21 rugs & 2 old ditto 4 pewter dishes 3 pewter basons 6 puter plates 7 head of cattle 1 suger dish 2 chiars 2 old wheels 1 flax do 1 pr Stillyards 1 bed stead 1 pot hooks 1 frying pan 1 old chiars 1 Table 1 ____ pr of money scales 1 side Saddle 1 butter pot 1 chamber pots 1 Iron ketttle 1 Lanthorn 1 old pr of Nuckles a parcel of old books 1 lead pot 1 old Judg saw. Edmund Mayfield Administrator This Inventory of the Estate of William Kendrick wa settled by Edmund Mayfield and ordered to be Recorded. Teste: M. Duke Johnson ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Peggy Wallace sereptha4@compuserve.com ******************************************************************************