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- (Research):Abstract of the Will of John Bell
Currituck Precinct, April 16, 1706; no probate date
Chowan County Miscellaneous Papers
C. 024.99002
Vol. 1, p. 33
In the Name of God amen...Sixteen Day of Aprill anno Dom 1706...
I John Bell of the Precinct of Corahtuck in North Carolina...
Sick and Weak in body...
I Give and bequeath to Margrett My Dearly beloved wife...all my personal estate...to be by her used...at her free will...during her naturall life...except half to my children hereafter named. Son William Bell...one third of estate remaining after wife's decease...one Ewe with all her increase. Daughter Margrett Russell...the other third part...one Ewe and all her increase. Desire that if wife should marry, she and her husband should remain upon my now Dwelling Plantation during her Naturall life but if she and her husband live somewhere else, she's only to take with her a third part of his personal estate, the remaining two thirds to be divided between my two children aforenamed.
Executrix: wife Margrett
(Signed) John Bell (seal)
Witnesses: William Parker, Jane (her mark) Wicker, Edwd. Taylor
The will was proved by widow Margrett Bell with the oaths of Mr. Wm. Parker,
Mrs. Jane Wicker and Mr. Edwd. Taylor before Jos. Wicker, CC, but no date is given.
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