Person:Henry York (2)

Henry York's Will - 8 March 1817

In The Name of God Amen. Henry York of the county of Wilkes and the state of North Carolina being very weak of body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling unto mind the morality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all give and renounce my soul into the hands of the Almighty God that gave it and my body, Remand to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my ex seutive nothing doubting at the general resurrection. Shall receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God and as touching such world by estate where with it has pleased God to help me in this life. Give" and dispose of the same in the following manner of form.

First, I ordain my beloved wife Market (spelled market, although he was refering to his wife Margaret) to be executive of my estate the during of her and if she should marry again she is to have but a child's part. To my son Henry I give one hundred acres of land on the south side of the tract and to my son Leonard I give the old tract were I now live and after to death of beloved wife all my estate shall be equally divided amongst my daughters that is to say the daughtrs of my last wife Market but if she is to marry than all my estate is to be sold by my executors George Wheatly and Daniel McDaniel and for my children of the first wife as I think I have given them more than the younger children will get so I bequeath unto each one dollar and I do hereby utterly disblame revoke all and every testament and will in where of I have here unto go my hand and seal this 8th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eighth hundred and seventeen.

Signed, sealed on his last will and testament in the presence of us"

David Thronbergh Henry Lenderman Dan McDaniel Henry York (his own blessed signature)

Henry York Henry York b. 6 Aug 1732 in Pipe Creek Settlement, Carrol l Co. Md. (now Union Bridge, Carroll Co.) Married Margaret lenderman on 15 Jan 1789. Margaret was born 30 July 1774

Children of Henry York and Margaret Lenderman: Eli York b. 9 Dec 1789 Eve Dorothy York b.15 Oct 1792 Sarah York b. 10 Oct 1794 Henry York b. 2 Jan 1796 Elizabeth York b. 30 Sept. 1798 Zelpha York b. 29 Nov 1801 Leonard York b. 28 Jan 1804

An old paper in the York family Holy Bible says that the father of Henry York was Jeremiah York, that Henry Lenderman Jr. was father of Margaret Lenderman, and that Eve Dorothy was the mother of Margaret Lenderman

1.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (R). (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).