Parks Family Genealogy - Thomas Parks Jr. Will
"THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THOS PARKS Jany. Term 1791"
In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Parks of Wilkes County and
the State of North Carolina being Sick and weak but in perfect
mind and memory thanks be to Almighty God for it and calling to
mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for
all men once to die do make and ordain to be make this my
last Will and Testament in manner and form following Viz first
of all I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that
gave it me hoping through the merits of my blessed savior to
inherit everlasting life and my body to be decently buried at
discretion of my Executors hereinafter mentioned and as to all
the wordly good that hath pleased God to bestow me with I
bequeath in the manner and form following Viz
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- I give and bequeath to my Loving Wife Presilia one Negro Girl
Ivy and the Land and plantation whereon I now Dwell the Land
as low as the Middle branch during her Natural Life
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- I give and bequeath to my Daughter Peggy one Negro girl
Named Hannah to her and her heirs forever the said negro to be
delivered to her at the time of the rest of my Estate being
divided or at the day of her Marriage -----------------
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- I give to my son Ambrose Parks the land whereon I now live
as low down as the middle branch after the Demise of his Mother
to him and his heirs forever --------------------
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- I Give and bequeath to my son Reuben Parks all the Land lying
below the Middle branch being part of the Tract I now live on
to him and his Heirs forever ------------------
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- I Give to my son Ambrose Parks my Island land Consisting of
Sixteen acres to him and his Heirs forever --------------
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- My Will and Desire is that my beloved wife Precilla have the
use of all my Movable Estate only as before directed during
her Natural life and then to be Equally divided among my
Children namely Ann Parks, John Parks, Thomas Parks, Reuben
Parks, Aaron Parks, Mary Johnson, William Parks And I do hereby
Constitute and appoint my two sons Reuben Parks and Ambrose Parks
Executors of this my Last Will and Testament revoking and
disannulling all other will or wills by me heretofore made
allowing this only to be my Last Will and Testament in Witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this fifth day of
July 1790.
Thomas Parks (Seal)
Signed & Sealed
in presence of
Geo. (?) Wheatley
Richd Allen
Niason (?) x Wheatley
(wrote on the back)
The Wood Place Included in the Second line before signed - -
State of North Carolina January Term
Wilkes County - - - - - A. D. 1791
The written will was duly proved in
open Court by the oaths of Richd Allen ---- - (?)
Geo Wheatley and ordered to be Recorded
Test Chs (?) R Gordon C.C.