Will, NC, Craven, Thomas Bryan, 1760

In the name of God, Amen.

I, THOMAS BRYAN, being very sick and weak in body but in my proper senses and
memory, and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is
appointed once for all men to die, do make and ordain this, my last will and
testament & doth dispose of my worldly goods as follows:

IMPRIMIS I give and leave to my loving wife RACHEL [LAVENDER] BRYAN one negro man
named EDENBUR and all my stock of hogs, cattle, sheep and horses and all my
household goods and plantation tools to her and her heirs and assigns forever, only
she to pay my just debts out of the profit of said things.

ITEM I give and leave to my three children, SARAH BRYAN, ANN BRYAN and the child
that my loving wife Rachel Bryan now goes with one negro man called SAM and one
negro girl called LUCY. And if the child that my loving wife now goes with should
be a son, I give and leave to him & his heirs and assigns forever one tract of land
lying on the north side of the Ash Branch consisting of one hundred and seventy
acres, be the same, more or less, it being the plantation I now live on. And if
the child that my wife now goes with should be a female child then what ever lands
I have given to the child that my wife now goes with I give and leave to my three
children, SARAH, ANN and the the child that my wife now goes with. To be equally
divided between them when my daughter Sarah comes to the age of twenty one years,
or at the marriage of either of them.

I do nominate and appoint my loving wife RACHEL BRYAN and my loving brothers
WILLIAM BRYAN & JOHN LAVENDER my whole & sole executrix and executors of this my
last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 8th day of December in
the year of our lord God one thousand seven hundred and sixty.

THOMAS BRYAN

And I do acknowledge the same to be interlined in the second page, the words “to be
equally” and the word “executrix”.

Signed, sealed and published in the presents of us.

SARAH BRYAN, jurat
HARDY BRYAN
WILLIAM WHITE




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