Miller, Robert - 1765 - Mecklenburg County, NC - Wills

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 WILL OF ROBERT MILLER SR. DIED MECKLENBURG 1765
 
 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I ROBERT MILLER SR. OF THE COUNTY OF
 MECKLENBURG AND THE PROVINCE OF NORTH CAROLINA BEING IN GOOD
 HEALTH AND PERFECT MEMORY, BLESSED BE TO GOD. THEREFORE DO
 THIS FIRST DAY OF JANUARY IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF THE
 LORD GEORGE THE THIRD AND IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1756 DO MAKE
 AND PUBLISH THIS, MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND
 FORM FOLLOWING, THAT IS TO SAY IN PRIMUS, I COMMEND MY SOUL
 UNTO THE HANDS OF ALMIGHTY GOD WHO GAVE IT TO ME, AND MY BODY
 TO THE EARTH FROM WHENCE IT CAME IN HOPES OF A JOYFUL
 RESURRECTION THROUGH THE MERITS OF MY SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST AND
 AS FOR MY WORLDLY ESTATE WHEREWITH IT HAS PLEASED GOD TO
 BLESS ME, I DISPOSE THEREOF AS FOLLOWS: FIRST, I GIVE TO MY LOVING
 WIFE MARY MILLER FOUR COWS AND CALVES, ONE RIDING HORSE, ONE
 BREEDING MARE, HER CHOICE OF THE WHOLE STOCK, HER SADDLE AND
 BRIDLE, A GOOD BED AND FURNITURE, ONE HALF OF ALL THE PORCELAIN,
 EARTHENWARE, THE NEGRO SARAH AND CHIT, 2 IRON POTS, A SPINNING
 WHEEL AND TWO HOGS, THE HOUSE NOW BUILT, THE CLEARED LAND ON
 THE UPPER END OF THE 800 ACRE TRACT ON LITTLE TYGER RIVER WITH
 CONSTANT FIREWOOD DURING HER LIFE PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT THE
 NEGRO WENCH AND CHILD HAVE LAND TO BE HIS PROPERTY DURING LIFE
 AND NO LONGER. THEN I GIVE AND DEVISE TO MY SON NATHANIEL
 MILLER THE UPPER END OF THE 800 ACRE TRACT ON LITTLE TYGER RIVER
 BEGINNING ACROSS THE WHOLE TRACT ACQUIRED INCLUDING THE
 WHOLE FORK- THE SAME MAN IS LEFT TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS AND
 ASSIGNS FOREVER, HIS MOTHER'S LIFETIME ONLY EXCEPTED AS
 AFORESAID. THEN I GIVE AND DEVISE TO MY SON JOHN MILLER 200 ACRES
 OF LAND RUNNING ACROSS AS AFORESAID AND ADJOINING NATHANIEL
 MILLER'S LINE WITH ONE HALF OF THE WAGON OR HALF THE PRICE
 THEREOF AND THE BIG IRON POT AND THE NEGRO WOMAN AFTER MY
 WIFE'S DEATH AND NOT BEFORE. THE SAID LAND SHALL BE TO HIM HIS
 HEIRS AND ASSIGN FOREVER. TO MY SON ROBERT MILLER I GIVE AND
 DEVISE FOUR HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND ON TYGER RIVER OR LITTLE
 RIVER TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER AND LIKEWISE TEN
 POUNDS PROCLAMATION MONEY TO BE PAID IN TWELVE MONTHS AFTER
 MY DEMISE. THEN I GIVE TO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH ( this is Adam Meek's
wife)
 TEN POUNDS
 PROCLAMATION MONEY AS AFORESAID, THAT IS TO SAY IN TWELVE
 MONTHS AFTER MY DEMISE. THEN TO MY DAUGHTER MARY TEN POUNDS
 PROCLAMATION MONEY TO BE PAID AS AFORESAID. THEN I WILL AND
 ORDER AND REQUEST THAT THE REMAINDER OF THE 800 ACRES OF LAND
 ON LITTLE TYGER RIVER SHALL BE SOLD TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE AND
 THE PRICE THEREOF TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED IN THE FOLLOWING
 MANNER, THAT IS TO SAY TO MY SON JAMES MILLER ONE THIRD OF THE
 PRICE OF THE LAND ABOVE SAID, THE SECOND THIRD PART TO MY
 GRANDSON SAMUEL NEELY AND THE OTHER THIRD PART TO MY
 GRANDSON JAMES MEEK, THE SON OF ADAM MEEK, THE CHILDREN'S
 MONEY TO BE PUT IN TRUST BY THEIR PARENTS. THEN TO MY DAUGHTER
 ANN (wife of Alexander Lewis) FORTY SHILLINGS PROCLAMATION MONEY OR
TWENTY
 SHILLINGS
 STERLING. THEN TO MY GRANDSON JOHN MILLER THE SON OF MY SON
 ROBERT, TEN POUNDS PROCLAMATION MONEY. THEN TO MY
 GRANDDAUGHTER ANN, MY SON ROBERT'S DAUGHTER, I GIVE 5 POUNDS
 PROCLAMATION MONEY. NOTE: IF THE NEGRO WOMAN SHOULD HAPPEN
 TO BEAR ANOTHER CHILD IN MY LIFETIME, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH THAT
 TO MY GRANDSON SAMUEL NEELY. THEN THE REMAINDER OF MY ESTATE
 BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL TO BE SOLD TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE AND
 THE AMOUNT THEREOF TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED INTO SEVEN SHARES OR
 PARTS; TO MY WIFE MARY A PART, TO MY SON JOHN MILLER A PART, TO
 MY SON ROBERT MILLER A PART, TO MY SON JAMES MILLER A PART, TO
 MY SON NATHANIEL A PART, TO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH A SHARE, TO
 MY DAUGHTER MARY A PART, AND LASTLY I REQUEST AND DEVISE THAT
 ALL JUST DEBTS AND FUNERAL EXPENSES BE FULL PAID AND I DO
 HEREBY REVOKE AND DISANNUL ALL FORMER WILLS AND TESTAMENTS
 AND DO DECLARE AND PUBLISH THIS AS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
 AND NO OTHER, AND I MAKE, CONSTITUTE AND ORDAIN MY GOOD
 FRIENDS ALEXANDER LEWIS, JOHN MILLER AND WILLIAM NEELY TO BE
 MY EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
  IN WITNESS WHEREOF I THE SAID ROBERT MILLER SR. HAVE TO THIS MY
 LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS FOURTH DAY
 OF JANUARY ANNO DOMINI 1765. (WILL BOOK B, OFFICE OF CLERK OF
 SUPERIOR COURT, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, CHARLOTTE, NC.) FROM
 MINUTES OF MECK COUNTY COURT 1774-1780
 
 1778. ON MOTION ORDERED THAT A SUPOENA (sic) ISSUE TO THE
 EXECUTORS OF LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ROBERT MILLER THAT
 THEY ANSWER SUCH MATTERS AND THINGS AS BROUGHT AGAINST THEM
 BY ADAM MEEK. EXECUTORS ARE ALEXANDER LEWIS, WILLIAM NEELY
 AND JOHN TAGGART.
 
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