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RECORDS: Thomas Rogers Last Will & Testament
In the name of God, Amen, I, Thomas Rogers of the County of Union
and State of North Carolina calling to mind the certainty of death and the frailty of human life, and being now considerablyadvanced in years, yet of sufficient strength of body and mind to dispose of what Earthly goods it has been pleased God to bless me with, do hereby make, publish and declare this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking & making null& void all other last Wills and Testaments made by me.
Imprima(?) After my death & burial (which I want done in a Christian like manner suitable to the wishes of my family & friends) I desire my Executors hereinafter appointed to pay off & discharge the expenses of my burial and such other necessary expenses and just debts (if any) out of the first money which may come into their hands by virtue of their office.
Item 1 I will & bequeath to my beloved wife, Winney, oneNegro girl aged now about fourteen years named Cate to have & to hold during her natural life. Also one horse (the grey), one horse cart & gear, two cows andcalves, if any have calves (her choice), two head of hogs (her choice), all mystock of sheep that may be on hand at my death, all the kitchen furniture alsoall the household furniture, including beds, & other necessary furniture & bedsteads, tables, chairs, earthen ware, clock and all such articles as usually belong to the house. Also, I give to my dear wife one years provisions out of thecrop & provisions on hand if there is enough of such to make for herself, herNegro, horse & stock a years support, such allowance to be made by the disinterested persons chosen by my Executors.
Executors.
Item 2 I will & bequeath tomy dear wife Winney in addition to the
above & forgoing property the land on which I now live, bounded as follows:
beginning on the thru notched Road, a little west of a new field cleared in 1852 & 1853, & then run so as to leave her said field to a corner of the original hundred acre tract which corner is on a pine nearby west of the dwelling house, then down the flat branch so as to giveher all the land east of said line & north of the thru notched
Road supposed to contain two or three hundred acres to have during
her natural life.
Item 3All the balance of my property of about one hundred acres
of land joining thelands of Russel Rogers on which Rushing Rogers lives & Richard Rogers lands and the following Negro slaves viz Adam, Elijah, Bill, Hannah, Amanda, and Nancytogether with increase (if any) and all my cattle & hogs & horse and everythingnot otherwise disposed of; I wish and it is my will for it to be sold to the highest bidder on such credit as my Executors may think necessary in
their discretion to give and the proceeds of said land and Negros and
other property sosold to be equally divided between my sons viz Richard, Rushing, Russel, Shepard, Aaron, Calvin, James M., Jason and Comodore and the children of Thomas P. Rogers, such children to be entitled to the share which their father would have been entitled to were he alive.
Item 4 To Robinson Rogers, I only will and bequeath one dollar, having paid debts for him as much or more than what I conceivewould be his equal share of my property.
Item 5 I will and bequeath to my daughters, Rhoda intermarried with Arthur Sikes, and Winney intermarried with Isaac Eliott, each the sum of one dollar and no more having heretofore given to each of them a Negro, a bed, cow & calf and other property.
Item 6 All the property herein willed and given to my beloved wife
Winney, land & Negro girl, horse, cattle, hogs, & sheep, household and kitchen furniture, horse cart and otherarticles is hereby given to her during her natural life and at her death to besold with the increase of it (if any) by my Executors in the manner heretoforedescribed for the sale of other property and the proceeds of it to be
dividedamong the same persons heretofore mentioned who w