Wayne County, NC - Will of Joshua Garris, 1840

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      In the Name of God Amen
  I JOSHUA GARRIS of Wayne County in the State of North Carolina
being sick and weak of body but of a sound and perfect mind and 
memory thanks be to God calling unto mind the mortality of my body
that it is appointed for all men once to die. Do make and ordain this 
to be my last Will and Testament that is to say; I lend all of my 
Estate of Land to my son ECHABOD three years and afterwards I give to 
my two Grand Sons ISAAC and RAIFORD GARRIS forever it to be equally 
divided.
ITEM: my son WILIA (Wiley) with three dollars.
  I give and bequeath all of my perishable property to be sold and
equally divided between my son ECHABOD and my daughters TEMPERANCE 
COLYAR and BARBIA WORRELL and my son GRADDY.
  I appoint my son GRADDY GARRIS and __________ PIKE Executors of this 
my last Will and Testament disanuling all and every other Will or
Wills Testaments Legacies bequeaths heretofore by me made or given;
Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and 
Testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this 
the nine-teenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty.

                                        JOSHUA (X) GARRIS  Seal
WITNESS: NEEEDHAM T PERKINS
         JONATHAN PIKE JR.
         __ HOWELL

CR.103.801.6
Wayne County Wills 1776-1927
Folder - 1840 JOSHUA GARRIS
NC State Archives, Raleigh, NC

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