Person:Thomas Lyall (1)

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Will of Thomas Lyall [Note: pages partially torn, contains spelling errors and some likely words inserted]

In the Name of God Amen the Ninteenth Day of February [in the Year] of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty one I Thomas Lyall of the County in the State of North Carolina being sick and Weak of Body, ____ Mind and Memory, Thanks be given unto God, and Calling to mind my mortality, tat it is appointed to men to Die, do make this my Last will and Testament and Principly and first of all, I Recommend my Soul into the hand of God that gave it, hopeing through the Merits, Death and Posesion of my Lord and Saveorour [Savior] Jesus Christ, to have a full and free pardon of all my sins, and to Inherit Everlasting life, and my body I comend to the Earth to be Buried in Deceant Christian ~ Buriel at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named nothing Doubting but to Receive the same again at the Genneral Resurrection by the Mighty power of God. And as touching such Worldly Estate Wherewith it hase pleased God to Bles[s] me With in this life, I give, Devise, Bequeath and dispose of in the following Manner and form (Viz), I will that all those Just Debts and Duties as I do owe others in Right or conscience be paid as soon as may be after my Deceas by my Executors hereafter named.

Item I give & Bequeath unto my Loveing Wife Mary one third part of all and Singuler my Estate both Real and personal dureing the Term of her Natureal life, and at her Death the said, moiety or third part aforesaid, to Descend, to my children to be Equally Devided amongst them Share and Share alike and to their heirs and assigns aforesaid.

Item I give Bequeath and Devise to my Loveing Daughter Margrat my Plantion {Plantation] on the South fork of the Yadkin River Which I Bought of Close? Thomson, and one third part of my Personal Estate to her and her Heirs and assigns forever.

Item I give Bequeath and Devise to my Loving Daughter Elisabeth the plantation Whereon I now Live Including that i Bought of John McElloraieth and George Kern and also the piece of vacaint land I Entered adjoyning to the same, and the Residue of my personal Estate to her and her Heirs and assigns for Ever~

Item I give Devise and Bequeath to my Loveing Daughter Margrat afore named my Plantation Which I Bought of James Thomson, and Entered and Surveyed the same ___, I alow the Deed to Issue in her name, and also my small? Entry and Survey on Third Creek, joyning Jonathan Boons land, and to her Heirs and Assigns for Ever and also my Plantation I bought of Alexander Douglas to her and her Heirs and assigns forever ~

Lastly I Nominate ordain and appoint, my Loveing Wife Mary, Samuel Young, and Thomas McKay my Executrix and Executors of this my Last Will and Testament Hereby Revoking, and Disanuling all other and former Wills, Testaments, legacies, Bequests, Devises and Executors, by he heretofore named.

______ ce Devised Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to ___ Testament.

___ Codicil

___ y month and Year above Writen I Thomas Lyall do Bequeith to my step-Daughter Susannah Cowan my Mare that Goes and her name, and a cow, and Sadle and Bridle to her and her Heirs and assigns forever, and my Will and Pleasure is that this Codicil be Deemed and taken as part and parcel of my Will.

[Signed] Thos. Lyall [Seal]

Signed Sealed Published pronounced and Declared by the said Thomas Lyall as his Last Will and Testament in Presence of us the Subscribers

Jas. Brandon

James Graham

William Mackay?

1.   North Carolina, United States. North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records , 1665-1998: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015).

   Name: Thomas Lyall
   Gender: Male
   Residence Place: Rowan County, North Carolina
   Probate Date: 1781
   Probate Place: Rowan, North Carolina, USA
   Inferred Death Year: 1781
   Inferred Death Place: North Carolina, USA
   Item Description: Original Wills, Hill, John L - Morris, Benjamin
   Others Listed (Name) Relationship
   Thomas Lyall Testator
   Mary Lyall Wife
   Margrating Hantion [s/b Margaret, same as below] Daughter
   Elizabeth Lyall Daughter
   Margrat Lyall Daughter
   Shusanah Cowan Stepdaughter (Step Daughter)

2.   American Genealogical - Biographical Index. (Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States|Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library).

   Name: Thomas Liles
   Birth Date: 1750-1759
   Volume: 104
   Page number: 117
   Reference: Heads of Fams. At the First U.s. Census. Sc. By U.s. Bureau of the Census. Washington, 1908. (150p.):21

3. ↑ North Carolina, U.S., Will Abstracts, 1760-1800.

   Name: Thomas Lyall
   Probate Year: 1782
   Estimated Death Year: Abt 1782
   Inferred Place of Death: North Carolina, USA
   Full Abstract: 1782 LYALL, THOMAS, Mary (wife), Margaret, Elizabeth.

4.   North Carolina, Land Grant Files, 1693-1960: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., ,2016).

   Name: Thomas Lyal
   Issue Date: 21 Mar 1780
   Residence Place: Rowan, North Carolina, USA
   Certificate Number Range: 1-770
   Description: Rowan 1-770
   Acres: 210
   Grant No. 181
   Entry No. 640
   Entered: 13 Aug, 1778
   Book No. 35, Page No. 396
   Location: Beginning at a post oak Bounded by Thomas McBrodin on the W. & N.W. by Andrew Ferguson on the Salisbury Road on the E. Then to the widow Penrey's line. Taken from Warrant.

5.   North Carolina, Land Grant Files, 1693-1960: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., ,2016).

   Name: Thomas Lyall
   Issue Date: 10 Oct 1783
   Residence Place: Rowan, North Carolina, USA
   Certificate Number Range: 1055-1281
   Description: Rowan 1055-1281
   Acres: 50
   Grant No. 663
   Entry No. 638
   Entered: July 23, 1778
   Book No. 51, Page No. 201
   Location: Beg at a pine on said Lyals line at the Shoals on N. side of Third Creek

6.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/18044805/person/290073377430/facts

7.   North Carolina, United States. North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records , 1665-1998: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015).

   Name Thomas Lyall
   Gender Male
   Residence Place Rowan County, North Carolina
   Will Date 19 Feb 1781
   Probate Date 19 Feb 1781
   Probate Place Rowan, North Carolina, USA
   Inferred Death Year 1781
   Inferred Death Place North Carolina, USA
   Item Description Will Books, Vol E-F, 1789-1807
   Household members
   Name Relationship Listed
   Thomas Lyall Testator
   Mary Lyall Wife
   Margaret Lyall Daughter
   Elizabeth Lyall Daughter
   Susannah Cowan Step-Daughter