Person:Thomas Needham (2)

Will of Thomas Needham

THOMAS NEEDHAM, JR'S WILL

"IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, Giving my Soul unto the hands of the Almightyth God who gave it, I now do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament as in manner and form following:

ITEM: I give my land here in Pasquotank County between my three sons, My son John and my son Thomas and my son Gideon.

ITEM: I give my son John where he now lives by the Creek, to him and hisHeirs.

ITEM: I give to my son Thomas where I now live, to him and hisHeirs.

ITEM: I give to my son Gideon, where Cornelius Jones did formerly live, and to be divided between these fore-mentioned sons, that the whole parcel of land is to be divided between these fore-mentioned three son, to them and their heirs, Executors, Administrators, or assignees forever, ever one ofthem their part alike.

ITEM: I give to my son Christopher one shilling, nomore.

ITEM: I give to my son Thomas one negro man named Casey Sopee, but my desire is that my son John shall have the use of the Negro from August to the first day of March in one year, an my son Gideon the use of him in one year, moved from 10 Aug. to the first day of March, if they take it within five years.

ITEM: I give all the rest of my Estate that I have in this world to be divided between my three sons and my daughter. My son John and my son Thomas and my son Gideon and my daughter Ann, eachone of them their part alike, and my desire that they shall share it within these-----without-----any man, and I do make my son John my sole Executor, as witness my hand this sixth day of October 1740."

Signed: Thomas X NEEDHAM

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