This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: burney and lackey Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/yAH.2ACIB/257.1.2 Message Board Post: Daniel, I think this may be of interest to you. This is the will of John Burney who died about 1794 in Guilford Co. NC. His wife undoubtably must be Catherine Lackey. "In the name of God, Amen. I,John Burney, of the state of North Carolina and county of Guilford, being sick in body but sound in mind and memory and calling to remembrance the uncertainty of this present transitory life have thought proper to make and publish this to be my last will and testament, disanulling and revoking all former wills and testaments whether written or by word of mouth, and this only to be my last will and testament in manner and form following. First I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Catherine, one good horse and saddle and three cows, her bed and furniture and chests and all that is about the dresser and her maintainance of the plantation whilst she lives and my Negro Jeffrey to work for her and my plantation to be at her disposal whilst she lives. I give unto Elisabeth my oldest daughter one horse and saddle, one bed and furniture and chest and two cows. I give unto my daughter Rebekah one horse and saddle two cows one bed and furniture and c! hest. I give unto my son Robert two hundred acres of land where he now lives and joining to my son William's land. I give unto my son John the plantation whereon I now live, at his mother's death, and all the land that remains after Robert has got his two hundred acres. I give unto my three grandsons to wit, William's John, Robert's John and John's William my Negro man Jeffery at my wife's decease. "I do allow that after the legates(?) has got the portions designed for them in this will that there be an equal divide of what remains of my estate amongst all my children, both men and women, the clock only excepted, which is to be Elizabeth's. I do appiont my wife Catherine and my son Robert to be my executors. Given under my hand and seal this 2nd day of August in the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four." Witnesses: John Gilchrist, George Denny and William Denny signed,John Burney and his seal. This document is located at the Guilford County Court House. I'm sorry, photocopied it and did'nt get the page number. I hope this is heplful to you! Mark