NORTH CAROLINA.
In the Name of God Amen, I, Henry McCulloch, Esqr., Secretary of the Province of North Carolina aforesaid, being sick and weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, praised be God for the same, Do make and Ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament, in manner following, that is to say: First and principally, I recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it; and my Body to the Earth to be decently intered according to the discretion of my Executors herein after named: And as for such Temporal Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with, I Give and dispose thereof as followeth, to wit:
I Give unto my Dear Wife, Mary McCulloch, All that my Real and personal Estate, Goods and Chattels whatsoever and wheresoever, and of what Nature or kind soever, to be divided equally between my said Wife and my four Daughters, Henrietta Mary, Dorothy Berisford, Elizabeth Margaret, and Penelope Martha McCulloch, Share and Share alike, Provided always, and the treu intent and meaning of this my Will is, that my sd. Wife shall be at Liberty to pay my said Daughters their several proportions or Shares of my said Real and personal Estate, at their several age or Ages of Twenty one Years, or days or days or Marriage, which shall first happen, and in the mean time, shall, and may reimburse herself thereout the Costs, Charges and Expences she may be at for their several Maintenances and Education.
And Lastley, I Do hereby Nominate, Constitute, and Appoint my said Wife, Mary McCuIloch, and my worthy frend, John Campbell of Bertie County, in the sd. Province, Esqr., Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making Void all other and former Wills by me heretofore made, Declaring this and now other, to be and Contain my Last Will and Testament.
In Witness whereof, I have here unto Set my hand and Seal. The twenty fith day of October, In the Year of our Lord, 1755.
his
Henry HenimCl. McCulloch, (Seal)
mark
Signed, Sealed, Published and
Declared, In the presence of us,
who have Subscribed our names
as witnesses hereto in the pre-
sence of the Testator, (the names,
Mary, Barisford, Margaret and
Martha, being first Interlined
between the Ninth & Tenth Line
from the beginning of the Will).
Wm. Powell.
Isc Arthaud.
Wm. Robertson.
On the 15th. day of November, 1755, the Above Will was proved by William Powell and William Robertson, two of the subscribing evidences, who at the same tune made Oath that they saw, Isc Arthaud, the other Subscribing Evidence, set his hand as a Witness thereto, and then also John Campbell, Execrs. named In the said Will, Appeared & Qualify'd himself by taking the Oath by Law Appointed.
Arthur Dobbs.
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)
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