Wayne County, NC - Will of John Thompson, 1808

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  In the Name of God Amen  I JOHN THOMPSON Minister of the Gospel
  of the County of Wayne & State of North Carolina  Being Sick and weak
  of Body but of a Sound mind and Memory Blessed be God  Calling to 
  mind the Mortality of my Body knowing that it is Appointed unto Men
  once to die & for the Better Settleing of my Worldly Estate to make 
  and Ordain this my last Will and Testament in Form and Manner 
  Following as Viz
  FIRST  I Desire all my Just Debts to be paid by my Excutors 
  ITEM  I give and Bequest unto my Beloved wife SARAH my Bofat and
  Firneture one Riding Chair & Harness and her Choice of my Horses one
  Desk and one Chest one Yoke of Stiurs Two Cows & Calves Three Sows
  and Pigs Two Beds and Firneture one sett of Fire Dogs one Pot kittle 
  and Tea kittle one Case of knives and Forks Six pewter Spoons one 
  Frying pan Two Fluke Plows and one Cutter three weading hoes  I lend 
  to my Beloved wife one Negro Boy Name Peter During her Natural life  
  I also lend her my Plantation and all the Lands thereunto Belonging 
  with all its Appurtanances Thereunto Belonging and one Negro Simon 
  During her Natural life or Widowhood and it is my Will and Desire 
  that the Orchard be duly Attended to in keeping it well Prooned and 
  well Broke up once in every year and no Small Grain Sowed therein and 
  not to cultivate any Part of the Land in Corn more thin Two years 
  Sucessively but may Sow it with Small Grain every year, and she is 
  not to Settle any Family or Persons on the said Land nor into the 
  House Unless a Man to Conduct her Business for her 
  ITEM  I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter PATTEY one Bed and 
  Firneture one Chest one Womans Saddle one Bed and Firniture and
  after my Decease I Desire all my Estate that has not been heretofore
  Named Sold and After Reducting out of my son STEPHENS part Fifty
  Dollars and my son SILASES (SILAS'S) part Thirty and my Just Debts
  paid and the Expenses of settleing my Estate then Occurred the money
  to be Equally Devided Between my Eight Children hereafter Named
  SILAS, PATTEY, STEPHEN, JOHN, EPHRAIM, CHARITY, BENNIT and
  REUBEN. I Desire my son REUBEN be Bound until Twenty one years
  Old unto George Nance of Wake County to learn his Trade.
  ITEM  After the Death or Widowhood of my wife I Desire my Plantation 
  and all my Lands and Premises with all that I have lent her thereon 
  During her widowhood to be sold and after Reducting out Fifteen 
  Dollars CHARITYS part I Desire the Monies arising therefrom to be 
  Equally Devided  Between my Eight Children Before Named and after the 
  Decease of my wife I Desire the Negro Peter I lent her to be sold and 
  the Money to be Equally Devided Between my Eight Children Before 
  Named  it is my will for my Daughter CHARITY have a bed and Fineture 
  in Stead of the Fifteen Dollars that is Reducted out of her share of 
  the Money to be Devided
  Lastly I Nominate and Appoint my Two Friends James Rhodes and Jethro
  Thompson whole and Sole Executors to this my last Will and Testament
  Renouncing Disannulling and Revoking all Other Will or Wills 
  heretofore by me made Ratifying and Publishing this and no Other to 
  be my last will and Testament in Witness whereof the said Testator 
  have hereunto set his hand and Seal this 12 day of November in the 
  year of our Lord 1807
  Signed Sealed and acknowleded
  in the Presence of us who in the               JOHN THOMPSON  Seal
  Presence each Other have Set
  our Hands
  John Howell
  Rebecca (X) Taylor

  Recorded  July 8, 1808

  Wills 1776-1927
  CR 103.801.16
  Folder 1808
  NC State Archives, Raleigh, NC

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