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Colony of North Carolina
Tyrrell County
Book 3 Page #114
Dated 7 May 1735
In the name of God Amen the 7 Day of May in the year of Our Lord One Thousand and Seven Hundred & Thirty Five. I James Hollis of the Precinct of Tyrril and County of Albemarle being very sick and weak in body but of Perfect mind & Memory thanks be given unto God therefore Calling unto mind the mortality of my body & knowing it is appointed For all men Once to Die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament that is to say Principally and First of all I give and Recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian Like manner at the Discretion of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God and as Touching such Wordly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to Bless me with this Life I give Devise and Dispose of the Same in the Following manner and Form
Imprimis I give and Bequeath to my son Armit a mare & Colt & their Increase the Mare called Flower Liquis one Cow called Tasell Track(?) and five three year old heffers & their Increase from Wodges One ewe & her increase
Item I give to the Child that my wife now goes with one young mare and Colt & their increase the mare called Fancey Two three year old Heffers & Two two year old Stears & their Increase One Eve & Lamb & their Increase
Item I give to my well beloved Wife Anne Hollis all the rest of my Movable Estate more or less that properly belonged to me whereever to be found.
I Liquse Constitute make & Ordain my only and sole Eexecuters my Wife Ann Hollis and Thomas Stubbs of this my Last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly Disalow Revoke & Disanull all & every Other Former Testaments Wills Lagaces and Executors by me in any way before mentioned Wills and Testament in witness whereof I have Hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this Day & Year above Written
James Hollis
Signed Sealed & Delivered by the said James Hollis as his Last Will and Testament in Presence of us the subscribers
Mary (her -x- mark) Fewax(?)
William (his -W- mark) Tysar(?)
Mary (her -M- mark) Stubbs
North Carolina
Tyrril County
March Court 1735
Present his majesty's Justices
These may certify that Mary Fewax one of the subscribing Evidencs to the within Will appeared in Open Court and made Oath on the Holy Evangelist that she was Present and saw Jas. Hollis Sign Seal & Declare the within to be & Contain his Last Will and Testament and that the said James Hollis was then and all that time of sound & Dispoving memoryand That she also saw Willm Tysar & Mary Stubbs the other subscribing Evidence sign their names thereto at the same Time. Ordered that the Honorable Nath. Rice Esq. Sec. of this Province have Notice thereof that Letters Testamentory Issue thereon the Executor first taking the Executors Oath as the Law Directs.
Test James Craven
Minutes
Tyrrell County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
September Session 1739
An inventory of the estate of James Hollis deceased was exhibited in open court by the oath of Ann Hollis his widow executrix. And the sd. Ann Hollis prayed the court that she might be allowed to sell the perishable part of the estate of her sd. husband, which was accordingly granted.
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