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Colony of North Carolina
Tyrrell County
Dated 29th July 1746
In the name of God amen. The 29th of July 1746 I Jacob Davenport of Tyrrell County in the province of North Carolina Planter being sick & weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God for the same therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing yt it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament that is say principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul into the hands of God yt. Gave it me & my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christain burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the Genereal Resurection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God as touching such worldy Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
Imprimis - I give and bequeath to Rachel my dearly beloved wife, ye use of my Plantation and halfe of the tract of Land joyning there unto during the term of her natural life & if it shall hapen yt ye child with which she now goes shall be a son then after the decease to him ye sd. son his heirs and assigns forever and if it shall hapen to be a daughter then ye sd land to be equally divided between my two daughters after the decease of my wife and as for my stock and house hold goods my will and pleaseure is yt ye same be equally divided between my wife and daughter Anne and ye child with wh. my wife now goes providing it be a daughter and if it prove a son, then that to have as much again as my daughter Anne.
Item - I give and bequeath to my brother William Davenport one halfe of my land including his improvements to be equaly divided between him and my chldren unto him his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby constitute make & ordain my brother John Davenport & my brother James Davenport, my sole executors of this my Last will & Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannull, all and every other former Testaments, wills, Legacies and bequeaths and executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed, Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last will and testament in Wittness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal the day and date first above written.
Jacob (his -x- mark) Davenport
Signed Sealed Published
Pronounced & Declared
by the sd. Jacob Davenport
as his Last will and Testament
in the presence of us the subscribers
Edwd Phelps
John Brown
John (his -x- mark) Davenport
Sept 3 1746
James Devenport was qualified as Executer according to within will in open court
Test Josiah Hart Clerk Court
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