{"id":1704,"date":"2013-11-01T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T07:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2015-03-23T01:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T05:48:18","slug":"judith-gregory-1754-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/judith-gregory-1754-will\/","title":{"rendered":"JUDITH GREGORY (1754 Will)"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT<\/span><\/p>\n

OF<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>JUDITH GREGORY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 21, 1753<\/span><\/p>\n

In the name of God Amen I\u00a0JUDITH GREGORY<\/strong>\u00a0being very sick and weak but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to almight God for it do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testement in maner and form as followeth that is to say furst I recommend my soul to God that gave it and my body to the earth to be buried at the discracion of my Exc\u2026hereafter menthened——–<\/span><\/p>\n

Iom. I give and bequeath to my well belove Son\u00a0ISAAC\u00a0GREGORY<\/strong>\u00a0my new Desk<\/span><\/p>\n

Iom. I give and bequeath to my beloved friend MARY LOYED<\/strong> one cow and cluf and one three year old hefer and two head of sheep and all my gees and one new coten gown and three head of yong cattel of two years old apeas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iom. I give and bequath all the rest of my estat that shall beleft after my lawfull debts be paid to be equally devided betwose my four children\u00a0ISAAC<\/strong>, <\/b>DEMSEY, MARY<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0LOVEY\u00a0<\/strong>except my waring cloath to be equally devid between my two Daughters\u00a0MARY\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0LOVEY<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And likewise I ordain and constute and apint my well beloved Brother\u00a0JOSEPH MORGEN<\/strong>\u00a0to be my whole and sole Executer of this my Last Will and Testement as witness my hand and seal this 21th day of October 1753.<\/span><\/p>\n

JUDITH GREGORY\u00a0<\/strong>seal<\/span><\/p>\n

Sined sealed and published<\/span><\/p>\n

In presencce of us<\/span><\/p>\n

WM. BURGESS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

JOHN EVERIGIN<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

SAM. SCOTT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As it happened to be forgoten in the body of my will to order the desposhal of my childern of mak this adishon my will and desir is that my exec.t take these of my children\u00a0ISAAC<\/strong>,\u00a0DEMSEY<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0MARY<\/strong>\u00a0and keep them and there estates tel thay arafe to full age or marry and likwise my desir is that my beloved Daughter issies\u00a0WILL<\/b>\u00a0Son have my Daughters\u00a0LOVEY<\/strong>\u00a0and my will is that my children may not be removed nor suppeted to\u00a0Chase Gardens<\/i>\u00a0as witness my hand and seal<\/span><\/p>\n

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North Carolina<\/span><\/p>\n

Pasquotank County<\/span><\/p>\n

January Court Anno Dom 1754<\/span><\/p>\n

Present His Majesties Justices<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

???? that WILLIAM BURGES<\/strong> Esq. Appeared in open Court and made & oath on the Holy Evangelist that he was present and saw\u00a0JUDITH GREGORY<\/strong>\u00a0sign seal publish and declare the within to be her Last Will and Testament, and that she was then of sound and disposing memory and that he also saw JOHN EVERIGIN<\/strong> and SAMUEL SCOTT<\/strong>, the other Evidoneois(?) sign their names thereto at the same time then appeared\u00a0JOSEPH MORGAN<\/strong>\u00a0Exer. And Relinquished his right to MARK GREGORY<\/strong> thereupon it was ordered that MARK GREGORY<\/strong> have the Admin. with Will annexed ??? security in one hundred pounds proclamation money declared that the Honorable JIMPS(?) MURRAY Esq. Secretary have ???? that Letters issue dated at the Clerkes Office the 12th<\/sup>\u00a0day of January 1754<\/span><\/p>\n

Test: Tho. Taylor.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JUDITH GREGORY October 21, 1753 In the name of God Amen I\u00a0JUDITH GREGORY\u00a0being very sick and weak but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to almight God for it do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testement in maner and form as followeth that is … Continue reading “JUDITH GREGORY (1754 Will)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26916],"tags":[27004,30178,15848,30179,6207,7026],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wills-and-estate","tag-burgess","tag-everigin","tag-gregory","tag-loyed","tag-morgan","tag-scott"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Yemh-ru","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}