In the Name of God Amen, I, Samuel Slade, of Beufort County, within the Province of North Carolina, Planter, being in good Health of Body & in Perfect Sound Mind & Memory, praised be God for it, But Knowing the uncertainty of this Life and that it is appointed for all men One to die, Do make, Ordain, Constitute & appoint This to be my last Will & Testament, To Say, First, I Will that all my Just Debts be paid, my Funeral Rights dischrged & satisfied; And as Touching my Worldly Goods I give, bequeath & Devise in Manner following to:
First, to my beloved Daughter, Elizabeth, Wife of William Dunbarr, give my two Female Slaves known by the Names Serey & Judey, but the Child that Serey is at this Time pregnant with Igive unto my Grand Daughter, Mary, the Eldest Daughter, of William Dunbarr & my Daughter Elizabeth. I also give unto my Daughter, Elizabeth, aforesaid, One Bed of Feathers, One Pair of Sheets, One Rugg & a Bed stead & three Cows & their Calves. Unto my Grand-Son, Samuel Dunbarr, I give & bequeath all that Tract or Parcel of Land, being & lying on the South Side of Pamtico River, at the Head of Blounts Creek, & on a Branch known by the Name of Good Neighbourhood Branch, & near this Land whereon I now Dwell, which Land was granted Unto me by his Excelency Gabriel Johnston, the Present Governor of this Province.
unto my beloved Daughter, Hanah, the Wife of William Tossyue (?) I give two Shillings, Sterling, with full Value in Current Money of the Province.
unto my Grandson Samuel Blount, son of James Blount, begotten on the Body of my Daughter and his late wife Jane, I give my Negro Male Slave Named Joshawa, that is now a Child about four Years of Age; and also two Cows & their Calves.
Unto my Grand Daughter, Mary Blount, Daughter of James & Jane Deceesed as aforesaid. I give my Nesyo Female Negro Slave named Charley, now an Infant, an also two Cows & their Calves.
Unto my Dearly beloved Daughter, Susana Slade, I give, Devise & bequeath this my Manner Plantation, whereon I now Dwell with all the Buildings, Houses, Edifices and Improvements thereon & all the Tools, Tackell & utinsils thereunto belonging, with all other my Lands not before given, to be holden to her & her Heirs, as also all the Rest, Remainer & Residue of my Estate as Goods, Chattels, Apperrell, HouseHold Furniture, & Slaves. Especially Jack & Jerome & Sam & Nan, and all other things or Part of my Worldly Estate unto me belonging, or any wise appertaining, all these I give unto my Daughter, Susana, aforesaid.
I Do nominate & appoint my beloved Daughter, Susana, to Executrix & Benjamin Rigney & Jacob Nevell, both of the County, Executors of this my last Will & Testament.
Samuel Slade (SEAL
Signed, Sealed, Published & De-
clared this Seventeenth Day. of
March, in the Year of Our Lord
God 1746. In the Presence of:
Richard Evans.
Thos. James.
Phillip Shute.
her
Mary X Dunbarr.
mark
Beaufort County. ss. December Court 1746.
Present his Majesty's Justices:
These are to certify that the within last Will & Testament of Samuel Slade, late of the said County, Planter, Deceased, was exhibited into open Court & proved by the Oaths of Thos. James & Phillip Shute, Signing Evidences thereto, who swear that they see'd the afsd. Deceasd Sign. Seal, Publish & Declare the Within to be his last WQI & Testament, and that they seed the other Subscribing Evidences witness the Same. Benjn. Rignic Exor. within named qualified himself by taking the Exor's Oath according to Law. Ordered that the Secrty. have Notice thereof.
Testas. John Forbes. Clk Curill
Recorded in Will Book 6, page 45.
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)
