Wayne County, NC - Will of PATE, Silas - 1858

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William S. Pate, Jr. <chip@pateandassociates.com>

WILL OF SILAS DANIEL PATE (1858)
OF WAYNE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

I, Silas Pate of the State of North Carolina and County of Wayne, being of
sound mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament,
viz:
    Item 1--I give to my beloved wife Christian Pate my horse Bud and Buggy
during her natural life, all my cattle, all my hogs and sheep and all my
household and kitchen furniture.
     Item 2--I give to my son James A. Pate one bed and bedstead and its
necessary furniture.
     Item 3--I give to my son Leonard H. Pate my tract of Land lying on the
East Side of Stoney Creek adjoining his own Land and the Lands of Exum
Howell containing Forty Acres and one Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
     Item 4--I give to my daughter Leathy (Taligha) N. Pate One Hundred and
Fifty Dollars.
     Item 5--I give to my daughter Pernicy H. Pate One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars.
     Item 6--I give to my daughter Eliza V. Howell One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars.
     Item 7--After the death of my wife Christian I give to my two sons
Silas Pate and James A. Pate my horse and buggy equally.
     Item 8--I make and appoint my two sons Leonard H. Pate and Silas Pate
Executors of this my last Will and Testament this September 4, 1858.

Wayne County
November term 1858
     The foregoing paper writing purporting to be the last will and
testament of Silas Pate is produced in open court and offered for probate
upon the testimony of William A. Thompson and Exum Howell the two
subscribing witnesses thereto and is duly proved and admitted to probate
and ordered to be recorded and filed.  Whereupon Leonard H. Pate one of the
executors therein named appears in open court and renounces his right to
qualify as such, when Silas Pate the other executor therein named duly
qualified as executor thereto.

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