Person:Henry Holaday (1)

Member of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting (North Carolina).

Will of Henry Holaday (Sr.)

In the name of God. Amen. I Henry Holaday Senior of the County of Chatham and State of North Carolina planter, being in health of body and of perfect mind and memory, thanks be give to God calling to mind the Mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die. I do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all Recommend to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner at the discrtion of my Executors, and as touching such wordly State as it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life. I give and devise and dispose of in the following manner and form, first of all that my funeral charges and lawful debts be paid.

I then give unto my son Henry Holaday all that tract of land where I formerly lived with all and singular the privileges and profits arising therefrom.

I give unto my four daughters, that is to say Hannah ANDREW, Abigail McCRAKEN, Rebecca HINSHAW, and Mary QUACKENBUG, three pounds ten shillings each of them.

Deborah Deal and Sarah Newlin having been left a like share by a former will and since paid as their receipts will show.

I give unto my grand children to wit my son Robt. Holaday's son Henry, likewise Thomas Holaday's daughter Mary, likewise my daughter Abigail McCracken's daughter Mary, likewise my son Henry Holaday's son Henry, likewise my daughter Mary Quakenbush's son Henry. Each of the above named grandchildren the sum of twenty shillings.

I give unto my son Robert's son William, my Big Coat.

My will is that such of my estate as is not already bequeathed and named by equally divided between my four sons to wit: Samuel Holaday, Robert Holaday, William Holaday and Thomas Holaday these and these alike both principle and interest to this date and the interest arising thereafter to go to my son Thomas for his trouble and expense.

Lastly, I constitute and appoint my son Thomas Holaday, my sole executor of this, my last will and testament and do hereby revoke, disallow, and disannul, all and every former testaments, wills and legacies, bequests, executors by me in anywise before names willed or requested, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I hath hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred. Signed, sealed, published, pronounced. Signed Henry (his mark( Holaday (seal) and declared by the said Henry Holaday Senior, as his last will and testament, in the presence of us, and in the presence of each other hath hereunto set our names.

Jacob Marshall Jr.
Issac Shugart
Test. Thomas Ragland C.C.

1. ↑ Liz Holliday. Burkes Commoners Halliday Lineage.
2. ↑ Contributed by decendant Phil Andrew, 8/2001..