Owen Daugherty Will, 1785


Contributed by Sam West
Source: NC State Archives, 109 E Jones Street, Raleigh, NC
C.R.028.801.18

Written: February 23, 1785

In The Name of God Amen ~ I Owen Daugherty of the County of Craven in the State of North Carolina planter; Being very Sick and weak in Body, but of perfect Mind and memory; thanks be given unto God; Calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body; and knowing that it is appointed for all men Once to die; do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to Say; prin-cipally and First of all; I give and Recommend my Soul Into the hand of Almighty God that give it; my Body I Recommend to the Earth; to the Buried In decent Cristian burial at the discretion of my Executors; nothing doubting but at the general ~ Resorrection I Shall Receive the Same a gain; by the mighty power of god and as Touching Such worldly Estate where with it has pleased god to bleSs me in this life; I give demiSe of the Same in the following manner and form ~

First I give and bequeath to my well Beloved wife; Mary Daugherty one Horse and Saddle one feather bed one cow and calf one half Ioe and Tankard; and to my well beloved Son Robert Daugherty I give and bequeath my Lands and plantations and to my Son Daniel Daugherty I give one Cow Earling

Ephraim I give a young Two year old Mare and one Cow and as for the Negroe wench the first Child She has to be for my Son Daniel Daugherty and the Second for my Son Ephreaim and the Third Child for my Son Ruben and the Fourth Negroe Child for my Daughter Hollon; if it is please god for her to bring the fifth Child for it to be for my five Children I had by my first wife and likewiSe for Each of them as two year old Heifer a piece; and the Remainder of my Estate to be for my wife Induring her Natural life or widowhood and for my Son Daniel Daugherty to keep the Said wench tell She Brings the five Childdren weanable Leving my well beloved wife Mary Daugherty and Robert Daugherty my whole and Sole Executors and all my whole Estate to be Equally Divided By the five Childdren I had by my Las wife Mary Daugherty In witneSs where unto I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal; this 23rd day of Febry In the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Five

Owen Daugherty {Seal}

Signed Sealed, published and pronounced
and declared By the Said
Owen Daugherty, as his Last
will and Testament In the
presence of us
Daniel (his X mark) Daugherty
James Arnold
Elizabeth Daugherty

June Craven County 1786
Then was the aforegoing Last will and testament of Owen Daughety produced in Court and proved by the oath of Daniel Daughety one of the subscribing witnesses and at the same time the Executor and Executrix therein named qualified agreeable to law ordered that letters testamentary issue accordingly Wm. Bryan Clk


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