SoS_Will_Books_40_041

Albemarle
Know all men by These presents that Wee John Bentley Richard
Bentley and William Bentley doe by these presents clearely and abso
=lutely Requitt release exonerate and discharge Cornelious Serry
Administrator of ye Estate of Richard Bentley late of this County of
Albemarle deseased: his heires Executors and Administrators of and from all
and all Manner of Actions: debts acctts[accounts] Suites Claims & demands so far
due or that may any wayes hereafter become due unto us ye Said John
Bentley Richard Bentley or Wm Bentley upon ye accot of the said
Estate except an accott of Sixteene shillings being ye full Ballance of
the Said Estate due unto us ye said John Bentley Richard Bentley and
Wm Bentley from ye Said Cornelious Serry Witnes our hands and
Seales the 17th day of November Anno Do: 1693
John Bentley [seal]

Signed Sealed & the Word Sixteene
put in ye Roome of Forty & delivered
in ye presence of
Alexander Lillington
John Barron
Wm Glover

Carolina
In the Name of God Amen F Robert Smith of Pequmans
Precinct in ye Province above Written; being Sick & Weake
of Body yet of Perfect Sence and Memory praised be God
and knowing the Certainty of Death doe make and appoint
this for my last Will and Testament In Manner Following First I
give & Recommend my Soul to ye protection of ye Almighty who
gave it me & when it shall please him to call me out of this life I
Recommend my Body to ye dust & grave to be decently [crossed out] Inter
=ed at ye discretion of my Executors after Named and as to my Temporat
Estate: God hath Left mee I will & Dispose thereof as Followeth:
After my Funerall Charges & debts are Sattisfied & paid I give
and bequeath unto my Son Joseph Smith and my Daughter Eliza
=beth Smith all & Sundry my whole Estate reall & personall to be equally
divided betwixt them so Soone as either of them comes to age if they
please, to be enjoyed by them & their heirs for ever excepting the
Legacyes after Named.
If either of the above Named Children by the pleasure of God be cald
out of this life before they Attane to age which i appoint to be ye 18th year
of their age: Then I will ye Survivor to have and possess my whole
estate above said And if it please God that Both of them dye then I
will ye estate be equally divided betwixt (my) Two Friends after Named
Oversers of the Children.

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