Will, NC, Craven, JOHN BRYAN, 1741




CRAVEN COUNTY
Record of Deeds, Grants, Wills
1741-1751

C.028.40001C (Microfilm Reel)

NORTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES, RALEIGH, NC




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                          Will, NC, Craven, JOHN BRYAN, 1741

North Carolina
Craven County

The Nuncupative will of JOHN BRYAN Deceased

WHEREAS JOHN BRYAN of Beard Creek late of the county & province being taken for
Death the day & year hereafter mentioned & having nobody Convenient to write his
last Will & testament and he the said JOHN BRYAN being in his proper & right senses
and of sound & perfect mind & memory did seriously Request & Desire that this
following Nuncupative Will Should be his last Will & Testament leaving no other
Wills or Testaments by him made or being by him therefore left & bequeathed his
affairs movables & Estate as follows:

IMPRIMIS that all his just Debts Should be paid.

SECONDLY he did give & bequeath to his son LEWIS BRYAN the Plantation whereon he
the Deceased did live Lying on Beard’s Creek to him the said LEWIS & his heirs for
ever.

THIRDLY he the said deceased viz. JOHN BRYAN as above said did give & bequeath to
his daughter SARAH BRYAN three Negroes viz. two fellows & one wench the fellows
named ROBIN & LUDGROW the Wenches name BESS with all the stock of horses, mares
Cattle Sheep Hogs & of every part & parcel of all his personal estate with all his
movables whatsoever which he the said JOHN BRYAN was possessed with in his lifetime
he did give & bequeath the above said Negroes & said Personal Estate to his said
daughter SARAH BRYAN to her her heirs & assigns for ever.

FOURTHLY He the said JOHN BRYAN notwithstanding did ordain & appoint that as he the
said JOHN did in the third articles of his will as above said give & bequeath to
his above said daughter SARAH three Negroes and all his personal estate as above
said that She the said SARAH should educate & bring up his small children being
three in Number till such times as they arrive to the age of maturity

November the first 1741

The above will was proved before me, one of his Majesties Justices for the Peace of
the County, upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God by the Solemn affidavit of
JOHN JACOB HOVER & WILLIAM BEDSCOT who both heard the said Deceased Earnestly
Desire & Express that the above will now committed to writing Should stand Valid &
be his will & testament therefor as above the said will was proved before me as the
law directs such wills should be proved & within the term of time prescribed by law
of his the said Deceased Death.

DANIEL SHINE, J.P.

N.B. The evidences likewise declare upon oath that the said Deceased departed this
life the 31st day of October 1741 & did appoint his daughter SARAH BRYAN his whole
& sole Executrix of this his last will & Testament.




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