318 THOMAS WHITLOCK - Will
"... being sick & in a lowe state of helth but in my senceyes and mind ..."
To my beloved wife Elizabeth Whitlock during life one negro man Ben, on black mare, household furniture & plantation tools (names many items including "all my books of Divenity") the house & plantation whereon I live & 100 acres ajoyning to it. And as to the rest of my estate to be sold to the highest bider for ready money & equally divided among my seven children beginning at
- my son John Whitlock
- Thomas Whitlock
- Patty Arnold
- Morning Medley
- Temperance Bartlet
- Gilly Libscombe
- Leucy Whitlock
my dearly beloved children & at the death of my wife that part lent her to be sold by Exr. & divided in the same manner.
Exr: loving frends Jeremiah Pate & William Edwards
S/ Thomas Whitlock
WD 27 December 1779
Wit: John Estes, Mathew Pate, Edard Dowdy, Elizabeth Edwards
WP 15 Jun3 1780. Presented by Jeremiah Pate & William Edwards Exr. & proved by two wit. O.R.
Sec: John Shackelford, Joseph Gill & Thomas Lipscomb
