Return to Tyrrell Co Wills Introduction & Table of ContentsIn the name of God amen: The tenth day of August 1771 I, Mary Swain of the County of Tyrrel being in good health and perfect memory thanks be to God therefore calling unto mind the mortallity 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 and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that give it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurection I shall receive the same agian by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise and despose of the same in the following manner and form.
Imprimes - Item - I give to the heirs of my daughter Joanna Macky one shilling sterling.
Item - I give to heirs of my son Jeremiah Swain one shilling sterling.
Item - I give to my grandson Samuel Swain one sow and pigs.
Item - I give to my grandson Charls Rhoads one ew & lamb.
Item - I give to my son James Swain three cowes and calves and to his wife Ann Swain I give one white cotton gound.
Item - I give to my daughter Rosanna Spruill one chinch gound and on damask gound & one small iron pot.
Item - I give to my son Stephen Swain seventy five acres of land lying and being on the East side of Scopperlong River it being the plantation and land that Robert Ducks now lives on to him and his haers forever furthermore I give to my son Stephen Swain my hool right titel and entrust of one hundred and fifty acres of land more or less it being the plantation and land that formerly belonged to his brother William Swain to him and his haers forever.
Item - I give to my daughter in law Ann Swain wife of Stephen Swain all the remainder of my waring clothes(?) I give and bequeath unto my son Stephen Swain whom likewise I constitute make and ordain my sole executor of this my last Will and Testament all and sinular my lands & testaments goods and chateles and all the remainder of my estate boath rael and personal to him and his hairs forever freely to be prosesst and enjoyed and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disanul all and every other former Testaments Will Legacies and Requests and executors by me in any wayes before named willed and bequeathed retifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament in witness I have set my hand and seal the day and year above written ----
Mary (her -x- mark) Swain
Witness:
Hezekiah Spruill
Samuel Spruill
Rhoda (her -x- mark) Spruill
Minutes
Tyrrell County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
May Session 1774 {There is a one year gap in minutes prior to this session}
The last will and testament of Mary Swain was proved in court by the oath of Hezekiah Spruill evidence thereto who swore that he saw the testatrix sign seal & execute the same and that she was of sound & disposing memory at the time of making the same Steven Swain executor therein mentioned qualified to the same ordered that the Seretary have notice of the same that letters testamentary may issue.
North Carolina Archives
Loose Estate Papers
Tyrrell County (C.R.096.508.52), Box 52
Swain, Mary, 1774
Inventory of the estate of Mary Swain deceased by Stephen Swain executor filed August Term 1774. Includes an old negro named Jack.
Transcriber's Notes:
Mary Swain was the widow of John Swain who wrote his will in 1749
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