Person:Peter Efland (1)

Peter appears on the St. Asaph District, Orange County, North Carolina tax list in 1755. Thenext reference to him is in 1763 when he bought 210 acres of land from Henry McCullock in Court Order Book II. A reference is made that Peter Eveland at August 24, 1784, court was exempt from paying a poll tax in the future. His will was dated January 4, 1793, and probated May 3, 1793.

Peter Efland (Eveland) Will Book of Original Wills of Orange County, North Carolina Deposited with North Carolina Historical Commission, Raleigh, North Carolina

78 "In the Name of God Amen I PETER EFLAND of the County of Orange in the State of North Carolina being weake in body do make this my Last Will and Testament. First of all I recommend My Soul unto the hands of Almighty God that gave it to me hoping through the merits of my blessed Savior Jesus Christ to receive Full pardon for all my Sins and as for my Body I Commit it to the Earth to be Decently buried at the Discretion of My Executors hereinafter Mentioned and as for what wordly Goods it hath pleased God to bestow on me I give and devise and dispose of in the following Manner and form.

Item I Give and bequeath unto CATHERINE EFLAND My Dearly Beloved Wife Twenty-five pounds, One Cow, One bed bed Stead and Furniture. My Will and Desire is that it be the bed that we Lie on. One Large Skillet, One Iron pot Rack allso whatever She pleases to Take out of the Dresser. Also it is My Will and Desire that She Shall hae What is Made off of the Orchard and farm the Cows and Out of the Garden and further it is My Will and Desire that She Shall have all that She Brought with her to me and it is allso My Will and Desire that She keep all I have Given her During her Natural Life and to Dispose of them at her Decease as She thinks Proper and Further My Will and Desire is that What Ever is Laid in for Our years preovision and Cloathing be my Wife's and that None of it be taken from her.

Item I Give to my son David Efland Five shillings Sterling it beingall that Ever I intend he Shall have of My Estate.

Item I give and Bequeath to my Son John Efland Catherine Noe Mary Gibs Elizabeth Nance Sarah Grave and Philis Sharpe an Equal Share Each of them of all that part of My Estate which is not already Given.

Item I do hereby Appoint My Friends John Albright and Obed Green My hole and Sole Executors of this My Last Will and Testament and hereby Revoaking all Other wills by me heretofore Made and do acknowledge this and th is Only to be My Last Will and Testament in witness Whereof I have here unto Set my hand and Seal this 4th Day of January 1793. his Peter X Efland mark Signed Sealed acknowledged and Pronounced by me to be My Last Will and Testament in the presence ofJohn Bullock, Jas Holmes Probated May 3, 1793 Copied from Tennessee Stat Library Records compiled by genealogist Mrs. Mary Hoss Headman, Knoxville, Tennessee. Will is in book, KNOW YOUR RELATIVES, THE SHARPS ET AL, by Mrs. Genevieve E. Peters, page 93.