Will Of Richard Carlton, 1790
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Will Of Richard Carlton
Transcribed by Spessard Stone from a handwritten copy
In the name of God Amen. I Richard Carlton of Craven County & State of North Carolina being weak in body but of perfect mind sound & disposing memory & calling to mind the mortality of the body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make this my last Will & Testament in Manner and form following
Imprimis I leave to my Wife Mary the plantation Wherein I now live during her natural life & after her decease I give the said plantation to youngest son Samuel to him his heirs & assigns forever.
Item I give to my oldest children John Richard Thomas & Blake Mary Ann Elizabeth Sarah Rachel & Lydia One shilling sterling each in full for their portion of my present estate they having had their portions heretofore ------
Item after my Just Debts are paid & Legacys as above I give all my present Estate to my said Wife Mary During her Life for the maintaining & schooling my Two Young Children & after her Decease I give the residue of my then personal Estate to my Two Children Samuel & Frankey to be Equally Divided between them
Item I give to my said son Samuel all my Lands Except the plantation wheron I now live to him his Heirs & Assigns forever & after my Wife Decease I give the said plantation wheron I now live to my said Son Samuel to him his Heirs & Assigns forever
Last of all I nominate Constitute & appoint my Wife Mary Carlton & John Cox Executrix & Executor to this my Last Will & Testament Disannulling & Revoking all other Will heretofore by me made ratifying & confirming this & this only to be & contain my Last will & testament this 6th day of May 1790.
Richard Carlton Seal
Sign’d Seald published
& Declar’d by the Testator
to be & contain his last
will & Testament in
presence of us -
David his mark Bryan
John Cox
State of North Carolina
Seal By the Justices of the County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions held for Craven County.
It being Certified to us that Richard Carlton late of Craven County is Dead and hath made his last Will & Testament in Writing a true Copy whereof is hereunto assessed, and Mary Carlton the Executrix and John Cox the Executor therein named having qualified agreeable to Law.
These are therefore to authorize & Empower the said Mary Carlton & John Cox to Enter into and upon all and Singular the Goods & Chattels rights and Credits that were of the said Richard Carlton decd. wheresover in this State to be found and a true Inventory thereof & return, and all just Debts of the Deceased to pay and the Residue & to distribute agreeable to said Deceased Will.
Witness Saml Chapman Clerk of said Court at _____[?] the 15 December in the 17th year of our Independence AD 1792
Saml Chapman CC
Endnote
Thomas M. Carlton of Tallahassee in April 1999 provided me with two separate copies of the will of Richard Carlton, which I just rediscovered in one of my Carlton files. According to Thomas M. Carlton, this is the one drafted probably by his legal representative.
November 12, 2001