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Will of William Walker of Orange County, NC, 1769.

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Source: ORANGE CO NC WILL BOOK A pp101-102 fide:Ancestry

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IN THE NAME OF GOOD AMEN the 24th Day of March 1769 I William Walker of the County of Orange Yeom: Being Weak of Body but in perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God therefore Calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say Principally, and first of all I give & Recomend my Soul into the hands of God that give it, and as for my Body I recomend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian Like and Decent Manner to the Discreation of my Executors, Nothing Doubting But the General Resurrection I shall receive the Same again By the Almighty Power of God and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this Life, I devise give and Bequeath and dispose of the same in the following manner and form, it is my Will and I do Order that

  • in the first Place all my Just Debts and funeral Charges be paid and Satisfied, And I do Order that John Robertson (ROBINSON) and John Corry shall be my Executors ___________
  • Item I do Give and Bequeath to my well beloved wife the thord of all my Estate which is a mear and a Cow for a Shot [Shoat?] I have None ____

Item I do give to my well beloved Son James Walker Two Dollars.

  • Item I do give and bequeath to my well beloved son John Walker Ten Pounds he Received in PENSALVANIA and Twenty Pounds in North Carolina and what Cattel he Received ________
  • Item I do give and bequeath to my well beloved sons William, Abraham & Alex and Equal divide of all the Money and Chattles att my Decease the place that William Lived on is his one only.
  • The one half of the said Tract the East end belongeth to Abraham and the tract on Hogan's Creek Belongeth to Alexander
John Correy (Jur.) (his mark)
William W Walker
Shusana T CORRY (her mark)

Notes

Wife

UnNamed

Sons

James
John
William
Abraham
Alex

Daughters Executors

John Robinson
John Correy

Witnesses:

John Correy Jr,
William W Walker
Shusana T Corry