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Book 4 Page 54
Dated 31 January 1876
I Canada Holida of Tyrrell County and state of North Carolina being of sound mind and disposing memory do make constitute and declare this to be my last will and testament in the manner following to Wit.
1st I give my soul to God and my body to the earth from whence it came.
2nd I loan to my wife Lydia Holida all of the tract of Land on which I now live during her natural life. and at her death I do give and bequeath the said Land loaned to my wife to Thomas Franklin Holida my beloved son in fee simple. Said land adjoins the Lands of A D Liechfield Austin Perisher Timothy Swain & Caleb Holida by my son Thos Franklin Holida paying one hundred dollars to my son Johnathan Holida and fifty dollars to my son Caleb Holida where my said son Thos Franklin Holida shall come in possession of said Land & shall be able to pay the same.
3rd And last I do appoint my trusty friends A. D. Liechfield and W W Walker to be lawful executors in law to manage my estate and all other things intrusted to there care and to manage and have full jurisdiction over this my last will and testament.
Signed and sealed for the purpose herein contained in the presence of M D L Newbery and McRoughton who at my request has affixed their names as witnesses to the same this 31th January AD 1876.
Canada Holaday
M D L Newbery
Tyrrell County
McRoughton
Probate Court
A paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Canaday Holiday deceased exhibited before me the undersigned Judge of Probate in and for the County of Tyrrell by Thos Franklin Holiday one of the Legatees therein named and the execution thereof by the said Canada Holaday by the oath and examination of M D L Newbery and McRoughton the subscribing witness thereto who being duly sworn doth depose and say and each for himself deposith and saith that he is a subscribing witness to the paper writing now shown him purporting to be the last will and testament of the said Canaday Holiday that the said Canaday Holaday in the presence of these deponants subscribed name to the end of the said paper writing which is now shown them and these deponants further saith that the said Canaday Holaday did at the time he signed the said paper writing declare the same to be his last will and testament. And these deponants did sign the said paper writing now shown them as subscribing witnesses in the presence of and at the request of the said Canaday Holaday. and these deponants does further say that at the time they signed the said paper writing as subscribing witnesses that said Canaday Holiday was of full age to execute a last will and testament and mind and memory and was not under any restraint to the knowledge of these deponants and further these deponants saith not.
M D L Newbery
McRoughton
Sworn to before me 18th day of (unreadable) 1880
T L Jones
Probate Judge
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