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Joel Swindell Will Transcription

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Date: 16 Aug 1814 [unknown]
Location: Hyde County, North Carolina, United Statesmap
Surname/tag: Swindell
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1814 Joel Swindell Will. North Carolina, Hyde County, Probate Court, Wills, Vol. 1, p. 489, 16 August 1814, digital image 254 of 282, FamiySearch.org ([1]: accessed 23 August 2022)

Transcription

In the name of God amen I Joel Swindell of the state of North Carolina and County of Hyde make and constitute this Instrument my Last will & testament in form & manner following that is to say first it is my Desire that my body sould [sic] be Intered in a Christian Like manner by my Executrix I made ally after my Decease and as touching my worldly Estate I give in. manner & form following viz
Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth one negroe Cow & Calf after the Decease of my wife (or widowhood) interlined. Item I give and bequeath unto my son Joel Swindell on [sic] negroe one bed & furniture one Cow & Calf after the decease of my wife (or widowhood) Interlined, Item I give unto my son Warran Swindell one half of the negro woman Voilet Excepting the Children she should have any hereafter one bed & furniture one Cow & Calf after the decease of my wife or her widowhood. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Silas Swindell one half of all the Increase after this of the before mentioned Voilet one Cow & Calf after the Decease of my wife or widowhood. Item, I give and bequeath unto my two sons Cornelius & Marquis Swindell the Plantation where I now Live to be Equally Divided between after the Decease of my wife or her widowhood. Item I Leave all the Rest of my Property to my wife after my Just Debts is paid. And Lastly I do make & Constitute and by this Instrument appoint my beloved wife Dorcas Swindell my hole [sic] and sole Executrix of the my Last Will Revoking all others by or for me made Ratifying this to be my Last Will and testament where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th Day of August 1814
Joel his X mark Swindell, seal
Signed & acknowledged in presents of Sally ________ & Thomas Spencer
Hyde County of August term 1814
This Last will & Testiment of Joel Swindell Dec’d was produced in open Court by the oath of Thos. Spencer a subscribing witness to the same in Due form & ordered by to be Recorded.
Benj Foreman Clk





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