Will, NC, Craven, John FORT 1745

In the name of God Amen.

The 6th day of August Anno Domini 1745, I by JOHN FORT of Craven County being sick
in body but of good and perfect memory, thanks be to almighty God, and recalling
the uncertainty and state of this transitory life and that all flesh must yield
unto death when it shall please God to call, do make and declare this my last will
and testament and Manner and form following:

FIRST being penitent and sorry for all my sins, and most humbly desiring
forgiveness for the same, I command my soul unto almighty God, my savior and
Redeemer, in whom and by whose merits I trust and believe assuredly to be saved and
to have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit the Kingdom of
Heaven and my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, here
after named. As for the settling of my temporal estate and such goods chattels and
debts as have pleased God to bestow upon me I do order give and dispose the same
and Manner and form that is to say:

IMPRIMIS I give and bequeath to my beloved wife MARY FORT one feather bed and
furniture and my two riding horses.

ITEM I give and bequeath to my son ARTHUR FORT thirty Shillings Proclamation money.

ITEM I give and bequeath to my son JOHN FORT my Plantation and mill at Conohoe, and
all the cattle that is called his, and a sorrel mare, and a bay horse branded on
the rear buttock thus “GF”.

ITEM I give to my son JOHN FORT one feather bed and furniture and one iron pot.

ITEM I give and bequeath to my son DRULY FORT five hundred and fifty acres of land
lying on the lower side of Falling Creek joining below ARTHUR FORT’s land and the
sorrel mare colt called a Dolphin, and one feather bed and furniture and all my
carpenter tools and one iron pot

ITEM I give and bequeath to my son MOSES FORT four hundred acres of land lying on
Cohary Swamp where ELEANAH [Eleanore] PEACOCK lived and one feather bed and
furniture and one iron pot and all my shoemaker tools and six cows and calves.

ITEM I give and bequeath to my daughter JERUSHAH FORT a copper still and all the
furniture thereto belonging, and one brass Kettle and four pewter dishes, and six
and pewter plates and one bay mare branded on the shoulder thus “IF” and all
increase, and a Rone gray horse colt branded on the shoulder thus “IF”, and one
feather bed and furniture thereto, and a black walnut chest, and one linen wheel,
and one woolen wheel, and all the cattle that is called hers and all their female
increase, and a looking glass, and a box of iron and heaters and the plantation
which I now live on after my wife's disease.

ITEM I leave on to my beloved wife the labor of my negro fellow SIMON and after my
wife's widowhood I give him to my son JOHN FORT.

AND after all my lawful debts and legacies are paid, all the rest of my goods and
chattels to be equally divided between my wife and my sons DRULY FORT and MOSES
FORT.




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AND I hereby make an appointment loving friends my wife MARY FORT, ARTHUR FORT and
JOHN FORT full and sole executors of this my last will and testament, hereby
revoking, disannulling and making void all former wills and bequests by me made and
declaring this only to be my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I set my hand and seal this 6th day of August 1745.

JOHN FORT

These three words; give, and, item interlined before signed.

JOHN PIPKIN
CHARITY PIPKIN
JOHN FORT JR




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                         Will, NC, Craven, John FORT 1745

Craven County

March Court 1745

Present, his Majestie’s justices.

Then was the within will proved in open court by the oath of JOHN FORT JR, one of
the subscribing evidences thereto, who swore he saw JOHN PIPKIN & CHARITY PIPKIN
sign concurring evidences at the same time that he saw JOHN FORT sign, seal,
declare the within to be his last will and testament; that he was of sound and
disposing mind and memory at the time signed.

JOHN FORT also took the oath of an Executor, in due form of law, ordered that the
secretary have notice thereof, that letters testamentary may issue hereon as the
law directs.

JOHN RICE




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