Will, NC, Cumberland, DANIEL MCNEILL, 1808




             DANIEL MCNEILLL

         Last will and testament

             March term 1808

     Approved by ARCHIBALD MCNEILLl

       Recorded in book a folio 117

       TEST ROBINSON Clerk of Court




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                    Will, NC, Cumberland, DANIEL MCNEILL, 1808

                        State of North Carolina Cumberland County

In the name of God Amen.

I DANIEL MCNEILL of the aforesaid state and County being very sick and weak but of
perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God, calling into mind the mortality of my
body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die to make & ordain this
my last will and testament, that is to say:

PRINCIPALLY and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hand of almighty
God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent
Christian Burial at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting, but at the
general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God.

And as touching such worldly estate wear with it has pleased God to bless me in
this life I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following Manner and form:

FIRST I give and bequeath to [ISABEL MCNEILL] dearly beloved wife one third part of
land her lifetime, JACOB and SALL her lifetime, and after her death to be returned
to her heirs also one third of the cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, and all movable
property also one third of the household furniture.

SECOND HECTOR MCNEILL my dearly beloved con I give and bequeath 190 acres which I
purchased from DUNCAN CAMPBELL also the Negro boy FRANK and a young mare and to
have an equal division of the rest of the movable property.

THIRD also to ARCHIBALD [MCNEILL] my beloved son I give and bequeath unto him the
balance of the lands I bought from JAMES MCNEILL and JOHN DIXON after his mother's
thirds are laid off, and after her death her part to belong to him, ARCHIBALD and
MARGARET [MCNEILL], MARY [MCNEILL], ISABEL [MCNEILL], NANCY [MCNEILL], SARAH
[MCNEILL], and BARBARA [MCNEILL] to have an equal division of the Negroes and all
the other movable property.

Also several tracts of land lying on Black River which is my desire will be sold
and the money together with the money do the estate to be equally divided among the
mother and all the rest of the heirs.

My son HECTOR executor and his mother executrix of this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I, the said DANIEL MCNEILL, have to this my last will and
testament set my hand this day and year above written.

DANIEL MCNEILL {seal}

Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the testator as his last will and
testament.

In the presence of us who were present at the time of signing, sealing thereof

ARCHIBALD MCNEILL
ARCHIBALD MCLARIN
JOHN MCLARREN

JOHN MCNEILL
HECTOR MCNEILL

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