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Waldrop, Jechonias Sr. - 1826 - Rutherford County, NC - Wills
September Court 1826
North Carolina
Rutherford County
In the name of God, Amen. I Jechonias WALDROP Senr being weakly in body by of sound mind and knowing that I appointed once to die do make this my last will and Testament. First resign my soul to God and that my body be decently buried and that my just debts be justly paid. Then I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Margaret WALDROP the house and plantation whereon I now live, including three hundred acres land more or less, all the tract or parcel of land except two hundred fifty acres including the improvements where James SUMMERHILL lives and also the improvement where Jechonias WALDROP Junr now lives and including the land round the meeting house land crossing the creek at the old ford that led to the meeting house and up the north prong of the said creek to where the hill (?) skirt (?) to the creek and then up the hill to the back line of said tract or parcel which [illegible] first above mentioned three hundred acres including the building more or less I give and bequeath to my wife, Margaret with the prvilege of four of my children having their support on it by their labor and behavior and at my wife Margaret's death to be equally divided among them four names as follows Richard, Mary, Mary Ann and Rebecca. The two hundred fifty acres above mentioned I give to my two sons Luke & Jechonias by their paying one third part of the value of said land, which third part shall be divided as follows, to the heirs of my son Joseph WALDROP, Robert and Zachariah WALDROP and to my daughter Margaret PETER ad five dollars to the children, heirs of my son John WALDROP. I further ?state? that my sons Luke and Jechonias shall have two years after they get possession of said land before they shall pay up to the other legatees. As to personal estate I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Margaret during her natural life, except a cow and calf or the value thereof to my three daughters, Mary, Mary Ann and Rebecca and then to be divided as follows to Alfred HESTER if he stays with the old woman until he is twenty one years old that he has a horse and saddle worth forty dollars and what remains at her death to be sold at twelve months credit and the money divided among the heirs of my son Joseph, Robert and Zachariah and Margaret PETER. I nominate and appoint my two sons Luke and Jechonias as executors to this my last will and testament. Given under my hand and seal as my last will and Testament. Signed in the presence of us; May ye 20th day 1826.
Jechonias WALDROP (seal)
Terrell WILKINS (Jurat)
John WILKINS
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1750 - 1826 (~ 86 years)
