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b. ca 1727 MD - d. 1790 NC

Richmond County NC
Will Book 1, Page 37
24 Nov 1790

In the Name of God, Amen.  I, JAMES SMITH, SR., being weak in body but in my perfect sense and memory do make and ordain this Last Will and Testament revoking all other will or wills heretofore by me made. 

First:  My will and esire is that all just debts be paid.

Item 2: - I leave to my beloved wife, SARAH SMITH, all stock and household furniture belonging to me during her life.
Item 3: - My will and desire is that MARY WARD, after the death of her mother, have one cow.
Item 4: - My desire is that my son, JOHN SMITH, after the death of his mother, have two cows and calves.
Item 5: - My desire is that my daughter SARAH SMITH have one cow and calf after the death of her mother.
Item 6: - My desire is that the balance of my estate be equally divided among ALL MY CHILDREN after the death of their mother.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 24th Day of November 1790.  Signed JAMES SMITH.  Wit. JAMES TURNER, JEMIMAH (X) BOGAN.

[Transcribed from photocopy of original by Bennie Lou Hook Altom, September 1999.  For list of remaining children of JAMES SMITH, SR. see will of MARY WARD, Will Book B-1, P.22-27, Maury County TN written January 1816.  Also see HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF JAMES NORMAN SMITH in the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.  Typed copy of memoirs also available at Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas and University of Texas at Arlington.  SMITH FAMILY records in EARLY FAMILIES OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND, Elise Greenup Jourdan, 1998-1999, Vols. VII-VIII; SOUTHERLAND LATHAM and ALLIED FAMILIES, Imogene Southerland Voorhees, 1947, LDS-FHC.]

Bennie Lou Hook Altom  Baltom@NovaOne.Net

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