---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Date: 6/20/98 8:08 PM Received: 6/21/98 9:04 AM From: CHERNISKE FAMILY, [email protected] To: Vestal List, [email protected] Subject: Vestal page 128 > WILL OF JAMES VESTAL, SENIOR > (Records of Wills, Surry County, N.C., Book E-3, p.10) > > The seventeenth day in ye 4th month in ye year of our Lord on thousand seven hundred and ninety-three I James Vestal Senr. Of North Carolina, in Surry County Yeoman being of erfect mind and memory thanks be given to the Lord; therefore calling unto mind ye mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament & as touching such worldly Estate as Providence has blessed me with in this life I give devise & dispose of the same in the following manner & form-----. > First of all my debts and funeral charges must be paid---. > Item. I give to my son David Vestal ye improvement he now lives on with thirty actes of land at the West end of my plantation joining John Thomas Longino’s line by him freely to be possed and enjoyed without any molestation. > Item. I give to my son Thomas Vestal the improvement he now lives on with eighty-five acres of land at ye East end of my plantation joining Simon Hadley’s line he paying my > son James Vestal ten pounds in trade in five years from this date: likewise to pay to my > son William Vestal, my daughter Sarah Whitehead, my daughter Elizabeth McDaniel, my > daughter Rachel Bullock ye sum of ten shillings a peace as their full legacy paid by him. > Item. I give to my son JohnVestal a note of thirty-five shillings that I have against him for his full share. > Item. I give to my son Jesse Vestal ye remainder part of my land where I now live containing about fifty acres with all the appurtenances the reunto belonging to him freely to be possessed and enjoyed except ye privilege of ye house we live in & seven acres of cleared land with necessary wood & water & except I leave to my beloved wife during herwidowhood & no longer: likewise it is my will that my wife shall have one cow & two year old calves, three sheep, her horse & saddle, one chest & little box & pot & a sow & four pigs, one mare colt for six years & then give her up to my daughter Rebecca Vestal > ; and further it is my will that my abovesaid son Jesse Vestal shall pay to my son Isaac Vestal one horse worth twenty pounds & a good new saddle when he arrives to twenty one years of age. > Item. I give to my daughter Rebecca Vestal one feather bed & furniture, a big pot with all the goods that is lodged in Elizabeth Dixons hands and two pewter dishes and pewter bason with aforesaid mare & bed. And further it is my will that my son Thomas Vestal > shall have the care & tuition of my daughter Rebecca Vestal ‘till she arrives to ye age of eighteen years & of ye goods. > Further it is my will that my son Isaac Vestal be bound out to a trrade. And further itis my will and desire that all ye residue of my goods that is not willed away by me in this Will and one half of my crop shall be sold at public vendue to defray expenses and if there should be any over plus it is my will my son Thomas Vestal shall have it with my saddle. > & further I leave my(daughter?)Rachel to Ann Vestal, my daughter-in-law; likewise I constitute make and ordain my son Thomas Vestal & my trusty friend Thomas Hadley my only and sole Excrs of this my last Will and Testament & do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disanull all & every other former testaments, wills and legacies bequests and Excrs by me in any wise before this time nominated willed and bequesthed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. > I Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal ye day and year above written. > Signed, sealed, published, pronounced & declared by ye said James Vestal, Senr., as his last Will and Testament, in ye presents of us ye subscribers. > James Vestal > > Simon Hadley > Barnesby Teaque > Hoseph Hindshaw > (Copy presented, by Aileen Bishop, Vanderbilt Univ. Nashville, Tenn.) > Names of Children underscored to make them more easily detected. ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- Pat Bagwell [email protected] Listowner for Bagwell, Boswell, Jay, & Vestal