Dear List, Here is Ann's Will. Linda CRAVEN COUNTY, NC - Will - Ann Bass Blackledge, 1805. ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Edward L Davis <edward.davis@juno.com> Mar 1999 http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5277/ ======================================================================== Will of Ann Bass Blackledge, widow of Richard Blackledge November 1805 - Proved September 1807 I, Ann Blackledge, of Craven County, Widow, being very aged and infirm but .., do hereby make this my last Will and Testament on the ____ Day of November 1805. I leave my plantation on Brices Creek in Craven County which I purchased of Joseph Leech, of Spyers Singleton, and 250 acres of land of Stephen Dunn, and a lot, front and wharf of Richard Caswell, lot #10 in New Bern and seven negroes and their increase forSpyers Singleton's children, by my daughter Elizabeth deceased. To my son Benjamin, my negro Kain, my woman Milly, two beds and their furniture. To my son, William Blackledge my negro boy Abram to be educated as a cooper and then given to my grand daughter Ann B.Hatch, or my grandson Richard B. Hatch. To my grand daughter Ann Jones, sixty pounds of current money. My son William Blackledge to educate my boy Titus and then give him to my grandson William Blackledge, son of my son Thomas. The residue of my estate to be divided equally among my children with living children, and their children; except Ann Hawks, Thomas S. Singleton; William Blackledge, son of my son Thomas; Ann B. Hatch, Richard B. Hatch, Ann Jones; Richard B. Blackledge and Thomas W. Blackledge and Benjamin Blackledge, sons of my son William Blackledge. To my grand daughter Fanny Hatch, half of my wearing apparel, half a dozen soup and half a dozen of flat china plates and four china dishes, the other half of my wearing apparel to Mary S. Blackledge, my grand daughter. The residue of my estate to my son William Blackledge. Executors my son in law Spyers Singleton, grandson Richard Singleton and son William Blackledge. (Signed) Ann Blackledge (her mark) Witnesses: William Tignor James G. Tignor Probated September Term, Craven County Court 1807