SUBJECT: 928 Philemon Bradford UNFINISHED
LOCATION: Granville County, NC
DATE: August 25, 1769
DATE PROVED: January 1770
SOURCE: Gwynn,
Granville Co. Wills 1746-1808, 4-5 (abstracting p. 8 of the 1746-1771 unrecorded wills).
NOTES:
- Philemon's will identifies the names of his wife (Mary) and seven children: sons Thomas, Richard, Philemon Jr., John and David and daughters Mary (who married a White) and Elizabeth (who married a Hudspeth).
- After debts and funeral expenses, Philemon left five pounds each to his daughters Elizabeth Hudspeth, Mary White and sons Thomas and Richard. To his wife, Mary, he left "the plantation where I live," four male and three female slaves and "all stock and household goods" until she either died or re-married. To his son John he left "all that track of land I purchased of my son Thomas Bradford on each side of Fort Creek ... containing fore hundred acres more or less" as well as, at his mother's death, three named slaves, all cattle he was keeping "at William Parnals," three cows and calves, six sows and pigs, two beds and furniture -- all of which was to be divided equally among Philemon's other children if John died childless. Philemon's son David was to inherit, on his mother's death, the "400 acres whereon I live" which was described as being "on Poplar Branch" and another thirty acres Philemon had purchased from his son Thomas, along with four slaves, six cows and calves, two beds and furniture -- all of which was to be divided among David's siblings if that son died childless.
- Philemon's will was witnessed by Joseph Parker, Mary Parker, James Heflin and Christopher Parnal.
In the name of God Amen. I Philemon Bradford of the county of Granville and province of North Carolina Being in perfect health and sound in mind and memory thanks be to God for the Same and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die Do make this my last will and Testament in manner and form following and first of I all I commend me soul to almighty God who gave it in assure and comfortable hopes of a joyful resurrection through the merits and sufferings of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ...
...Fore hundred acres more or less and Bounded as followeth: to wit: Beginning at a white oak running east to a pine; thence north to a white oak thence west to a spanish oak thence south to a corner to two persimmon trees thence along a line of mark trees to the poppler Branch thence up the said branch to a corner poppler thence east to a ash thence south to the first station...
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