NORTH CAROLINA, SC
In the Name or God AMEN, I, Elizabeth Blount, of Chowan Precinct, Widow, do make & Declare these presents to be & Contain my last Will & Testament, hereby Revoking all former & other Wills by me heretofore made & Declared.
Imprs. I Give and bequeath unto my Son, John Blount, Ten shillings in Publick Bills of this Province.
Item. I Give unto my Son, Thomas Blount, Ten shillings in Publick Bills of this Province.
Item. I Give unto my Son, James Blount, the Negroe Woman named Cushaba and one third of the Cattle at Morattoke, the Bed I comonly ly on, a Rugg, Bolster & pair of sheets.
Item. I give unto my Daughter, Ann Worley, Thirty Pounds in Publick Bills of this Province.
Item. I Give unto my Son, Joseph Blount, my Negro man Nam'd Hector.
Item. I Give unto my Son, Charlesworth, my Negro man Nam'd Dick.
Item. I Give unto my Daughter, Rachell, my Negro Man Named ffrank, my Side Sadie & all my wearing Cloathes.
My Will & Desire is that my Land at Bare Swamp & the Land my husband puchased of Henry Haughton be Equally Divided between my two Sons, Joseph & Charlesworth, And that the Land at Barrows hole be sold by my Executors & the Doctor to be paid out of ye money Arising by the Sale thereof.
All the rest of my Estate I Give unto my two Sons, Joseph & Charlesworth., & my Daughter, Rachell, to be Equally Divided between them.
Lastly I hereby Constitute & Appoint Jno. Lovick, Esq., Samll Pagett & Jonathan Jeacucks, Executors of this my Last Will & Testament.
& in Testimonv thereof, I have hereunto putt my hand & Seal this 8th ffebry, 1732.
the mark of
ELIZ. X. BLOUNT (Seal)
Sign'd, Seal'd Publish & Declared
in presence of:
R. HICKS
........ the mark of
MARY X COLESON.
NORTH CAROLINNA. SS.
This Day came before me Robert Hicks, and made Oath on. the Holy Evangelists that he saw Mrs. Elizabeth Blount, lately deceased, Sign, Seal, publish and declare the within Writeing to be her last will and Testament the day therein mentioned, & that be, the said Robert Hicks, did Witness the same, and that he saw Mary Coleson the other Witness thereunto put her Mark as Witness also to the same. Given under my hand att Edentoa the 12th. of March, Anno Domini, 1732-3.
GEO. BURRINGTON
Copied from Original Will filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
Source: North Carolina Wills and Inventories, copied from Original and Recorded Wills and Inventories In the Office of the Secretary of State by J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, Published 1912) 