Parks, Thomas - 1791 - Wilkes County, NC - Will

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      Will of Thomas Parks II

    In the name of God, Amen - I Thomas Parks of the State of North
Carolina and County of Wilkes - being sick and weak but  in perfect
Sence and memory thanks to be to Almighty God for it and calling to mind
the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to
die do make and Ordain to be made this my Last Will and Testament
    In manner and form following Viz first of all I recommended My Soul
into the hands of Almighty God that Gave it me hoping through the merits
of my Blessed Savior to Inherit Everlasting Life - and my body to be
decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter mentioned
and as to all the worldly Good it hath pleased God to Bless me with I
Bequeath in manner and form following Viz

Item - I give and Bequeath to me Loveing wife Precilia Parks one Negro
Girl - Dicey or Ivey and the land and plantation whereon I now Dwell the
land as Low as the middle Branch - during her natural Life

Item - I give and Bequeath to my Daughter Peggy Parks one Negro Girl
named Hannah to her and her heirs for Ever the said negro to be
Delivered to her at the time of the rest of my Estate being divided or
at the Day of her marriage.

Item - I give to my son Ambrose Parks the land whereon I now Live as Low
Down as the Middle Branch
after the decease of his Mother to him and his heirs for Ever

Item - I give and Bequeath to my son Rubin Parks all the land Lying
below the Middle Branch being part of the Tract of land I now live on to
him and his heirs for Ever

Item - I give to my son Ambrose Parks my Island Land containing eighteen
acres to him and his heirs for Ever

My Will and Desire is that my Beloved wife Pricilla have the use of all
my Movable Estate only as before directed during her Natural Life and
then to be Equally divided among My Children - namely
Ann Parks, John Parks, Thomas Parks, Rubin Parks, Aaron Parks, Mary
Johnson, William Parks, and I do hereby Constitute and appoint my two
sons, Rubin Parks and Ambrose Parks Executors of this my last Will and
Testament revoaking and dissolving all other Wills or Wills by me
heretofore and allowing this only to be my Last Will and testament. In
Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this fifth day of
July 1790

Signed Sealed
In presence of
George Wheatley
Richard Allen
Mason Wheatley
                                               Will was proved January
Term in open Court Wilkes Cty.,
                                                North Carolina  A.D.
1791


Teste Gordon C.C.



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