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Colony of North Carolina
Tyrrell County
Dated 3 August 1750
In the name of God Amen I James Jones of the Province of North Carolina and in the county of Tyrrell Cooper being at present in sound mind and memory thanks be given to God for it and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appoynted for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and bequeath recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buryed at the descretion of my Exeuctors nouthing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God and as touching such worldley Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give and dispose of in the form and manner following
Impramus - I give and bequeath to my loveing wife Mary Jones dureing her naturall life one hundred and fifty acres of land including my uper Plantation
Item - After the death of my said wife my Will and Desyer is that the said one hundred and fifty acres of land including my said uper Plantation be my son James Jones to him and his heirs forever and in case my son James should die in his minorily then my Will and desyer is that the sd upper Plantation with the one hundred and fifty acres of Land be my son Fraley Jones to him and his heirs forever
Item - I give and bequeath to my son Benjamin Jones one hundred and fifty acres of land being the remaining part of the land belonging to my sd uper Plantation to him and his heirs forever and in the case my son Benjamin should die in his minority then the sd hundred and fifty acres of land to be my son Fraley Joneses and his heirs forever
Item - I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Draper one young mare.
Item - I give and bequeath my Personall Estate to my Severall children hereafter mentioned ___ly (?) Wife to have the use thereof dureing her life and in case she mary again then to have the use of my sd personall Estate dureing her widohood my said personall Estate I desyer should be equealy devided betwen my children after the death or marage of my said wife. To Wit/Evan Jones James Jones Fraley Jones Benjm Jones and Ann Jones and Elizabeth Jones.
Item - I give to John Ray the Liberty(?) dureing his life and his wifes Widohood the priveledg of dwellin on part of my land called the folley.
I do hereby apoynt and constitute (?) My loveing wife Mary Jones Excetrx togather with my two sons Evan and James Jones hole and soul Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and I do herby utterly disalow revoake and disanull all and every other former Testament Will Legacies and Bequests 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 Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty.
James Jones
Signed Sealed and Deliverd
in the presence of us
John Ray
William (his -W- mark) Howard Jurot
Elizabeth (her -x- mark) Howard
The last Will & Testament of James Jones
Recorded in the Secr. Office in Book A page 126.
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