Source: Year Book – Volume 1 – Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, North Carolina (1955).
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THE ROSE WINDOW OF CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH By George F. Hill, Jr.
Source: Year Book – Volume 3 – Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Compiled and edited by Lou N. Overman and Edna M. Shannonhouse (1975).
MARGAROT GREGORY (1753 Will)
The Last Will and Testament
of
MARGAROT GREGORY
February 3 1749
In the name of God Amen. I MAGARET GREGORY Widow of Pasquotank County in the Province of North Carolina being in perfect health & memory thanks be given unto God. Therefore calling unto Mind the Mortallity of my Body do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in the manner and form following.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my well beloved Son RICHARD GREGORY one negro man named Charles to him and the children he had by his first Wife and their heirs for ever.
Item. I give to my well beloved Son JAMES GREGORY one negro girl named Hannah and her increase to him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give unto my well beloved Son JOHN GREGORY one negro boy named Joshua to him and the children he has by his first Wife to him and their heirs for ever.
Item. I give unto my beloved Son CALEB GREGORY one negro woman named Priscilla she and her future increase to him and his heirs for ever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter MARY UMPHRY’S one shilling sterling to her and her heirs for ever.
Item. I give unto my well beloved Daughter MARGARET BARL??Y one negro woman named Sue and her increase to her & her heirs for ever.
Item. I give unto my well beloved Daughter SARAH GRANDY one negro woman Wroth and her future increase to her & the heirs of her body for ever.
Item. I give unto my Grandaughter SARAH UNPHERIS one negro boy named Isaac to her and the heirs of her body for ever.
And I do hereby uttorly disallow revoke and disanul all and every other formor Testaments or Wills by me in any ways before named ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament and my Son JAMES GREGORY afore named I constitute and ordain my sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Day and Year above written.
MARAGOT GREGORY Her Mark
Signed, sealed and Delivered In the Presence of
JAMES FORBES
ELIZABETH FORBES
REBECCA HARDING Her X mark
July 16, 1753
Contributed by Judy Merrel Brickhouse
(Transcribed as written, including errors in spelling and grammar.)
JOHN FORBES, SR. (1750 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
JOHN FORBES SR.
November 24, 1747
November the 24th Day 1747
In the Name of God Amen. I JOHN FORBES Sen. of Pasquotank County in the
province of North Carolina, Planter, being of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling to mind the Mortallity of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testatment in the following manner and form;
Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Son JAMES my plantation whereon I now live with ?? hundred acres of land to him and his heirs and assigns for ever only I reserve for my loving Wife MARTHA to have ye afsd. plantation and land during her natural life furthermore provided my Son die without heir that his Wife ELIZABETH to possess the afsd. plantation and land during her widowhood.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my loving Wife MARTHA all and singular my moveable estate both real and personal during her natural life and after her desease whatsoever is left to be equally divided among my children. Likewise I constitute make and ordain my loving Wife MARTHA whole and sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament and disanulling all other former testaments and declaring and pronouncing this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament as witness my hand and seal the day and year above written.
JN. FORBES
His x mark
Signed sealed and delivered in
The presence of us
PETER BROWN
His x mark
SARAH BROWN
Her x mark
N. Carolina
Pasquotank County
July Court Anno Dom 1750
Present His Majesties Justies
These may Certifie that PETER BROWN one of the Evidences to the within Will
appeared in open Court & made Oath on the Holy Evangelist that he was present
& saw JOHN FORBES sign seal publish and declare the within to be and contain
his Last Will and Testament and he the said JOHN FORBES was then of sound &
disposing memory (too faded to read) SARAH BROWN the other Evidences sign her
name (faded) same…….(faded) MARTHA FORBES Executrix and Qualified (rest is
very faded and almost unreadable) letter issued 10th day July Anno Dom 1750
Test. THO. TAYLOR
Letter issued 9ber 21st 1750
Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse
(Transcribed as written, including errors in spelling and grammar.)