In ye name of God amen, the 12th Day of Febuary, In ye year of our Lord, 1754, I, Edmund Blount, of ye County of Tyrrell, Being very Sick and weak in Body but of perfect Mind and memory, thanks be given unto god for ye Same, and Calling to mind ye mortality of my body & 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 principally and first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into ye hands of god that gave it and My Body I Recommend it to ye Earth to be Buried in a Christian Lake and Decent Manner at ye Descretion of my Executors Nothing Doubting But at ye General Resurrection I Shall Receive ye Same again by ye mighty power of god, and as touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased god to Bless Me in this life I give Devise and Dispose of the Same In ye following manner and form:
Imprimeses, I Give to my well Beloved Son, Edmund Blount, my manner plantation with all ye Land Belonging to it.
Item. I give and Bequeath to my well beloved, wife, Elisabeth, one third part of all my movable Estate.
Item. I Desire that Each of my Children Excepting my Son, Edmund, may Have one Cow and Calf apeice, and ye Remainder part of my Estate I will that it Go to ye maintainence of my Children.
Item- and I do make ordain and appoint my wife, Elizabeth, Executrix, and Benjamin Blount Executor of this my last will and testament, and I do hereby utterly Disalow, revoke and Disanull all and Every other former testaments, wills and Legacies, Bequests and Executors by me in any ways Before this time named, willed, and Bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal ye day and year above written.
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Edmund E Blount.
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Signed, Sealed and Delivered
by ye sd. Edmund Blount as his
last Will and testament in ye pre-
sents of us ye Subscribers, Viz:
Benjamin Blount.
Jacob Blount.
NORTH CAROLINA, TYRELL COUNTY, ss. June Court, 1754.
These may Certify that Jacob Blount, one of the Subscribing Evidences to the within will appeared in Open Court and made Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that be was present & Saw Edmund Blount, Deceased, Sign, Seal, publish, pronounce & Declare the within writing to be & Contain his will and Testament, and that be was then and at that time of sound & Disposing Memory; & that be also Saw Benjamin^ the other Subscribing Evidence, sign his name thereunto at the Same time. Then Also Appeared Elizabeth Blount, wife of the Deceased, and Qualified as Executrix by taking the Oath by Law Appointed for the Qualification of Executors. Ordered that the Honble. James Murray, Esqr., Secretary of this Province, have notice thereof that Letters Testamentory issue thereon as the Law Directs.
Test, EVAN JONES, Cler. Cur.
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)
