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Colony of North Carolina
Tyrrill County
Date 3 August 1738
In the name of God Amen ye third day August in year of our Lord 1738 I John Jennette of Tyrrill Precinct Cupper being in perfect helth and strenght of body thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give & recommend my Soul into ye hands of God that give it and for my Body recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and dicent manner at ye discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by ye power of God and as touching such worldly Estate whearewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise dispose of ye same in ye following manner or form
Imprimis - I give and bequeath to Dorothy my dearly beloved wife the use and ocepeation of the third part of my hole Estate deureing her natrel life and after her desese to William Jennett and his Heirs forever.
Item - I give and bequeath to my well beloved son John Jennett one shilling
Item - I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Elizabeth Alexander one shilling
Item - I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Dorothy Poplewell one shilling
Item - I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Jean one shilling
Item - I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Jabez Janett one shilling
Item - I give and bequeath to my well beloved son William Jennett whome I likewise constitute make and ordain my sole executrix of this my last will and Testament and all singular my lands messuages and tenements by him freely to be possessed and enjoyed and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testament Wills Legacies and Bequeaths and Executors by me in any wayes before named, willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
John Jennett
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared
by the said John Jennett as his Last Will and
Testament in the presence of us the subscirbers
Henry Norman
Jos Spruill
Sama Spruill
North Carolina
Tyrrel County
March Court 1749
Present his majestys Justices
The Last Will and Testament of John Jennet Desc was proved in open court by the oath of Joseph Spruill subscribing evidence thereto and on motion of William Jennet who quelified as Exetor of said will praying an order for letters Testrementary granted and ordered that the Honorable Nathaniel Rice Esqr. Secretary have notice thereof that letters may ishue accordingly.
Test Evan Jones Clk Court
John Jennett Will
Letters issued the 3d Day of December 1750
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