Person:Issac Giddens (1)

ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK - Isaac Giddens,, 2 APR 1779 Archives by: John Giddens [email protected]

Record of Wills 1446-1968 Onslow County, North Carolina In the name of God amen I Isaac Giddens of Onslow County planter being very sick and weak in body but in Perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God for the same calling unto mind the mortality of my body knowing And knowing that it was 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 and recommend my soul into the hands of the almighty God that gave it And my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian manner at the discretion of my executors Nothing doubting but as the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the almighty power of God And as touching such worldly estate wherein it has pleased god to bless me in this life I give semife and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form First I give and bequeath to my beloved mother Ruth Giddens my whole estate making no wast enduring her natural life and after her decease I give to my well beloved sister Nancy Shepard one negro woman named ginne And her whole increase from this time likewise one mare and colt and one large pewter dish to her hears and assigns Also after mothers disease I give and bequeath to my well beloved brother Abraham Giddens my land And tenements belong there to likewise two negro boys Orange and Arter by name I one feather bed and Furniture and one cow and two sows and thirteen sholtes two pewter dishes and two plates one earthen dish and Four earthen plates and one punch bowl one kettle and one skillet one lining wheel and one chest And farming tools to him the said Abraham giddens his heirs and assigns whom I do make and ordain my Soul executor of this my last will and testament do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all Of and every other former testament will legacies bequest and executors by me in any wife before named Willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament In witness where of I have here unto set my hand and seal this second day of April 1779 Signed sealed and published pronounced and declared by the said Isaac Giddens As his last will and testament in the presence of us wherein his presence And in the presence of each other have here unto subscribed our names

Isaac Giddens

Teste William Landen Smith Shepard Nathan Murray

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