Person:Henry Turner (25)

:October Court 1810

James Turner qualified executor thereto.

A. E. Murphey

(No date) Thomas Turner qualified executor.

(on outside of will)

Henry Turner Senr.

Will

Recorded in book [symbol -- II ?] folio 82

A. E. Murphey

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} The James Kimbrough Bible Record, in Kimbro--Kimborough Genealogical Association (Auburn, Alabama); Claire Howze Kimbrough Bryant; and Clyde H Kimbrough. Kimbro--Kinbrough genealogical quarterly. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986)
   3:2:20-22.

   Births
   
   Henry Turner, Senr was born Sept. 25, 1721.
   
   [..]
   
   Deaths
   
   Henry Turner Senr departed this life December the 9th 1809

2. ↑ North Carolina. Superior Court (Caswell County). Will records, with some inventories, estates and settlements, 1777- 1963. (Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1963-1965)
   Volume F pages 82 and 83.

   In the name of God amen. I Henry Turner of Caswell County [symbol] State of North Carolina Being very infirm in bodie but sound in mind and memorey do make & ordain this my last will & testament. I give and recommend my soul into the hands of almighty God and my Bodie to the ground to be buried after Christian like burial.
   :After all my just debt are paid I give unto my beloved wife Anne Turner the tract of land includeing the plantation where on I now live together with half the interest of the mill and all the household and kitchen furniture, with the plantation tools of every kind, also three negrows, to wit Sam, Winney, and Abram, two good work horses, four cows & calves or with calf, four ewes & lambs, four sows & pigs and a sufficient quantity of corn & meet or provision for to support her & her family & stock for the term of one year after my Decease, also I give to my beloved wife my cart & steers, all which I give to her during her natural life or widdowhood, and after her death or marriage it is my will and desire that the whole of my perishable property not specially devised to any of my Children or grand children, should be sold according to law and the the (sic) money arising therefrom to be equally divided among my Heirs Except my sones John Turner & Henry Turner.
   :Item I give and bequeath to my son Billy Turner one hundred and sixty acres of land it being the tract of land on which I now live and including the tract which I gave to my son Henry Turner from whome he purchased the land together with half the interest of the mill, aforesaid but not to intermeddle with the mill or plantation on the south side of the creek till after the death of my beloved wife Anne Turner, also Eight pounds Virginia Currency [words marked over] to be drawn out of my perishable estate to his Heirs and assigns forever.
   :Item I give and bequeath to my beloved son Thomas Turner Eight pound Virginia money [words marked over] to be drawn out of my perishable estate to him and his Heirs & assigns forever.
   :Item I give and bequeath to my beloved daughters Elizabeth Lipscomb Frankey Martin Milley Jones and Nancy Kimbrough Sixteen pounds Virginia Currencey to be raised out of my perishable estate to them and their Heirs forever.
   :Item I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Salley French, Sixteen pounds Virginia Currency to her, her Heirs and assigns for ever.
   :Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary Cochran Twenty four pounds Virginia Currency to her & her Heirs forever.
   :Item I give and bequeath to my Grand son Yancey Turner Eight pounds Virginia Currency to him & his Heirs for ever.
   :Item I give & bequeath to my Grand Daughter Mary French, Eight Pounds Virginia Currencey to be drawn out of my perishable Estate. [symbol]
   :Item I give & bequeath to my Grand Daughters Fanney Turner Delila Turner & Nancey Turner, Daughters of John Turner, the sum of Eight Pounds Virginia money equally to be divided between them to be drawn out of my perishable estate.
   :Item It is my will that my property [word marked out] which I have not hearin devised shall be sold after my Decease by my Executers to the highest bidder and also at the death or mariage of my wife the perishable property which I have devised to her should be sold & after the several Legacies are Discharged which I havve devised in money. It is my will that the overplus should be equally divided among my following children and grand children, to wit. James Turner Thomas Turner & Billy Turner, Elizabeth Lipscomb, Frankey Martin, Milly Jones, Susannah Danchoo (?) Sally French, Mary Cochran, Nancey Kimbrough and my Grand Daughters Fanney Delila & Nancey Turner Daughters of John Turner which is to draw one share between them.
   :Item It is my will and desire that my son James Turner in consequence of a purchase maid by him from my son Henry Turner by my knoledge & consent that the said James should draw two shairs in stead of one ___ part.
   :Lastly I constitute & appoint my sones James Turner and Thomas Turner sole Executors of this my last will & testament, revoking all other wills heretofore by me made only confirming this to be my last will and Testament. I (sic) testimoney whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 9th day of May A Dom. 1807.
   
   :(Signed) Henry (his mark) Turner (seal)
   
   :Signed sealed & ackoledged (sic) in the preasence of Test
   :W. L.(?) Webb (jurat)
   :Wm Kimbrou
   
   :State of North Carolina
   :Caswell County December Court 1809
   :The executors of the foregoing will was duly proved in open court by the oath of William (S? I? L?) Webb, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and on motion ordered to be recorded; At the same time Thomas Turner one of the Executors named There duly qualified to Execute the same and letters Testamentary opened.
   
   :(Signed) A. E. Murphey