Will Book I, Page 77

Washington Co NC
 

Will of Baptist McNabb
 

In the name of God Amen. This fourth day of January in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, I, Baptist McNabb, of the county of Washington and State of North Carolina, being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory calling to mind the mortality of this my state and that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and order this to be my Last Will and Testament. This is to say principally and first of all I recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to earth to be buried in a decent and Christian- like manner at the discretion of my executors and further such worldly goods where with it pleased God to bless me with I give and dispose of in manner as follows:
 

First of all I order and it is my will that all my just and lawful debts and funeral charges be paid for by my executors
 

I do give and bequeath unto my daughter Isabella McNabb my two mares and colts and a bed and furniture, one cow and calf, such as now got two more her choice of the stock at my decease and all and every part of my household furniture

I do likewise and on that my executors make a right to the tract of land that I gave to my son John McNabb and likewise to that tract I gave my son David McNabb. The other parts which I now live on I do give unto my son Jonathan McNabb and his heirs with its improvements upon condition that it be valued by three indifferent persons to be chosen by the Legatees, He having two Legatees parts the other part to be had in manner following in one year after my decease. That is to say to William McNabb, John McNabb, David McNabb and Isabella McNabb and in case that he should refused to take said land on those conditions that it be sold and the money arising there from be divided amongst the legatees in manner aforesaid. And that all the stock and moveables not otherwise be sold, and equally divided between amoungst the legatees and in case Isabella McNabb should die in her now age that her part should be divided their ____ legatees aforesaid and also leave and bequeath unto my daughters Mary McNabb, Margaret McNabb, Jean McNabb, and Katrin McNabb five shillings to be paid to them one year after my decease by the other legatees.
And I constitute my son John McNabb and David McNabb to be sole executors of this my Last Will and Testament.
I do hereby revoke and disanull and make void all other wills and testiments by me heretoforemade and constitute confirming approving this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament signed, sealed, published and generated in presence of us.

John McNabb, William McNabb, Agnes Campbell, John Campbell Baptist McNabb
The foregoing will was proven in court by the oath of Wm McNabb and John Campbell two of the subscribing wittnesses thereto on May 1784 and recorded at length.