The Last Will & Testament of Jacob Langston
Wayne County , North Carolina
December 25, 1784
Jacob Langston, of the state of North Carolina and county of Wayne being in a tolerably state of health and of a sound perfect mind and memory thanks be given to Almighty God for perfect mind and memory thanks be given to the same but calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die do constitute make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following. and first of all I commend my soul into the hands of the Lord that gave it me and my body I recommend to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate as God of his mercy hath blessed me within this life I do give and dispose of the same in the following manner viz
first my will and desire is that all my just debts and funeral charges be cleared and discharged
Item I give and bequeath to my son George Langston five shilling spacy and all the lands where dwell belonging to me to him and the heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever
Item I give and bequeath to my son Absalom Langston one featherbed and furniture and my (?Working clothes)
Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Martha (Daughtrey)five shillings spacie
Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Lydda Ginn five shillings spacie
Item I do give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Langston five shillings spacie
Item I do give and bequeath to my grandson Levi Langston 50 acres of land lying between John Thompson and John Herrings on Stoney Creek
Item I also lend to my son Masey Langston the labour of my two negroes ten years if kept as they have been and then to his two children and all the rest of my estate as I have not given away befour to my son a man.
Item I do appoint my friend David Jernigan & my son Masey Langston executors of this my last will and testament and do hereby utterly revoke disannul and make void all and every other former will or wills heretofore by me made ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixt my seal this 25th day of December in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four
Sealed ? ? the testator as his last will and testament in presence of us who in presence of each other hath hereuntofore subscribed our names Jacob X Langston
Thompson X Boyle
Isack X Hutson
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