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    1. [NCLENOIR] Will of Sarah Sowell Hardy
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    3. Transcript found at the DAR so I have had to abstract We need a copy of the division of the estate in Nov 1808 if it was recorded. That should name her children. Have been told there was something that did name her children so assume it was this deed. WILL OF SARAH HARDY Will Book F p 118, 119 ---- I Sarah Hardy of the State of North Carolina & County of Bertie, ----- First It is my will and desire that the Division that was made of my negroes in November last among my children Shall Stand good, & that each of My children have the negro that was then drawn for them and also the orphans of My Son Lamb Hardy decd have the negro then drawn for them, ----- on their paying to my executors herein after named the Several Sums of Money that the said Negroes were Valued to offer an equal division of the whole amount of the Valuation ----- that my Executors pay to my Son Charles Hardy out of the money received from my other children in consequence of the division of said negroes, the sum of money laid off, to him at said division in Consequence of his having no negro, and also that my executors pay to my Son Benjamin Hardy out of said money received as above, the Balance due him on account of his drawing a low priced negro. Secondly, I will & desire that my wearing apparel be divided among my Surviving daughters Thirdly I will and desire that the residue of my Estate be equally divided among all my children & the orphans of my son Lamb Hardy, decd Said orphans to receive one share among them Execu loving Sons William P. Hardy & Benjamin Hardy 20th day July Anno Dom 1808. Signed by mark Cornelious Williams Sarah Williams To Court Bertie County 1809 on oath of Cornelius Williams. Exhibited by William P. Hardy, executor

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