Person:Robert Harris (60)

Will of Robert Harris

WILL OF COL. ROBERT HARRIS.

In the name of God, amen. I, Robert Harris, being in my ordinary state of health, blessed bw God for all His mercies to me, calling to mind mortality of my body, do make this my last will and testament:

First, I order all my just debts to be paid, with funeral expenses.

Second, I bequeath to my son, Robert Harris, my negro Harris, and admise my son to sell said negro in this neighborhood so that he may live near his parents.

I also bequeath to my son my watch and one bed and clothes, also my book, M. S. Baxter, and Shaw's two books, and Milton's Paradise Lost and Gained, and my body cloth and my new saddle.

Secondly, I bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth my negroes, Dublin, Cloe, Prince and Charles. I order my negro Sal to go with Cloe, so that my daughter may take care of her, as she has the fits, the said negroes to continue in her possession during her life, and at her death she may dispose of them as she thinks proper. I bequeath to my grandson, Major James Harris, my negro Melinda.

I bequeath to my grand-daughter Grizel one bed and clothes and two cpws and two calves, and also my little negro, Liney, daughter to Malinda.

I also bequeath to my grand-daughter, Dorcas John Cochran's wife, £40, to be paid in two years after my death. I will and bequeath to my son-in-law, Samuel Harris, one English shillings. I order my executors to pay the heirs of Robert McMurry £15, the remainder of William Campbell's estate.

I bequeath to, my daughter Elizabeth the remainder of what furniture is in my house not mentioned above, the oval table excepted, which I order to be sold. I order all my land to be sold and every part of my property not mentioned above, and after paying the above legacy the money arising from the sale and what may be in my hands at my death to be equally divided between my son Robert and my daughter Elizabeth, to be by them possessod and enjoyed. I ordain and appoint my whole and sole executors my grandson, James Harris, and Edward Giles, Esq., revoking all former wills by me made.

In testimony whereof, I set my hand and seal this 26th day of January, 1796.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Charles Harris, Robert Cochran, William Harris. :(Signed) •. ROBERT HARRIS. (Seal.)

[Source: "A record of the descendants of Isaac Ross and Jean Brown", by Annie Julia Mims, pg. 200]