In the name of God, Amen. The twelf day of ffebuary, In the year of our Lord God, 1716. I, Jeamse Blunt, in the Prcinct Chowan, in Nor. Carolina, Being very Sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and Memory, Thanks be to God, Do make and Ordain this Last Will and Testament, In manner following, That is to say:
First and Chefest, I give my Sole To the hands of Allmighty God who Gave It me; and my body I Commend to the Earth to be Decently Buried in Christan Buriel, at the Discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at General Resurection I shall recave the Same again by the Mighty poure of God.
As Touching Worldly Estate wherewith It hath pleased God to bless me with, I give, Devise, Bequeath and Dispose of the same in manner and forme following:
I Leave to my Loving wife, Elizabeth Blunt, all my personal Estate During her Life, porvisardly that She, the Sd Elizabeth doth remain wedow, otherwaise, no longer then She the Sd Elizabeth Shall marry; at that time of her maredge to returne to my blovd Daughter, Anne, and her heairs for Ever.
I make my well beloved wife, Elizabeth Blunt, and my Daughter, Anne, full and whole Executrix, and after my Loving wife, Elizabeth, Desease, I give to my Loving Daughter, Elizabeth Yelverton, a yong mare; and to my Two grand Children James Yelverton and Jon (?) Yeltverton, to Each of them a Cow yearling after the Desease of my loving wife, Elizabeth Blunt; and
My Son, John Yelverton, I make over Seare of my Estate;
And to my Daughter, mary, five pounds, She or her heairs;
And to my Granddaughter, Sara Philips, Two Cows with ther Calvs, to be Left in the porseon of my Daughter, anne, till the Day of her maredge, the Sd. Sara Philips.
Give to my Son, John Blunt, a Shilling; and to my Son James Blunt, I give a Shilling; and to William Nea—(?), a cow yearling and Iron pott and Two puter Dishes.
And I Give and bequeath to my Daughter, Anne Blunt, the plantation that I now Live appone with Two hundred240 acers of Land, with all my Cows, Calves, Stars, Buls, Sheep, horses, mars, or Mills with all watter Crafts, with all housall gods, with all mannor of Implements whatsoever belongen unto me, rale or personal; and at the Day of my Daughter, anne, mar-redge, She may Seate (?) apon any part of the Sd. Land with out the least trouble of her, the aforsd Elizabeth Blunt, or any persone, or persons whatsoEver.
If It may please the allmighty God that I Desease att this presents, that I give to my Daughter, anne, the half of my Lether that, I, the Sd James Blunt, have by me now this psents, to her and her disposal.
And I do utrly deny, disalow, revoke, annulle and Evry other formar Testament, wills and Legacies, bequests and Executors.
And I give and bequeath to my Son, John Yclverton, fifty Shillings, to be paid in Starling money England.
I utrly deny all maner wills, Testemt. as aforSd mad befor this time named, willed and bquathed, ratifying this and none other to be my last will and Testement.
In witness, I have heareto Sete my hand, Seale the of the Yeare above Written.
James Blunt (Seal)
Signed, Sealed, published and
pronounced by the Said James
Blunt, as his last will and Teste-
ment:
F.Turner.
her
Anne N Dugles.
mark
John Yelverton.
March the 27th, 1717.
The within Will is provd. by the Oath of Jno. Yelverton in Open Court.
R. Hicks, Clk. Cur. Gen:
Copied from Original Will filed in the Office of the Secretary of State.
Source: North Carolina Wills and Inventories, copied from Original and Recorded Wills and Inventories In the Office of the Secretary of State by J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, Published 1912)
