Return to Tyrrell County Wills IntroductionIn the name of God Amen: I Jno. Combs Ser. of the County and State aforesaid do ordain this my last will and testament in manner following, that is to say first I give my soul to God who gave it & my body to be decently buried ---
Item 1st Then I give to my wife Nancy Combs feather bead & furniture, one cow & calf, one hand mill, one grindstone, two plows first choice, 2 weeking hoes, 2 new ground hows, 2 club axes, one horse first choice, one riding chair & harness, one yoak of oxen & ox cart & Yoke: also I give my wife a years provision for herself and family & then I lend to my wife Nancy Combs during her natural life one negro man named Peter also a negro woman or guril her first choice and at her death I leave the same negros to be equally divided between her children & mine Viz: Meranda Combs Samul H. Combs, Eliza Ann Combs, Jno. T. Combs and Jno. Combs; also I lend to my wife Nancy all the carpenters tools during her life to go with Peter, also I give to my wife Nancy my large chest, that my name is printed on, on pr cards, first choice, 1 linnen wheel do, and after all my just debts are paid I give to her one equall share of the money & notes, that may be left on hand with the rest of my heirs, also I lend to her the plantation whereon I now live and the Liverman land joining the same during her life time & then I give the above named land to my two sons Jno. Thompson & Jno. Combs and if either of them should die without issue the land to go to the other & if both should die the same land to be divided the two youngest one Nancey's shildren & mine ---
I now give to Spencer M. Combs the plantation and land where he now lives and my exutor to give him up his bond I hold against him ---
I now give to my son Urn N. Combs the tract of land known by the name of the Machat land the line to run through the middle of the swamp between that and the Gregory land to the Creeks ---
I now give to my son Samuel H. Combs a tract of land by the name of the Gregory land joining the Liverman land and the land given to Spencer Combs, also one feather bed of good guality ---
I now give to my daughter Morandy Combs one feather bead & furniture, one linnen wheel, one chest and if there is not in hand I will my excutors to buy them of good quality ---
I now give to my daughter Eliza Ann Combs one feather bead & furniture, one linnen wheel & one chest & if not on hand my excutors to buy them of good quality ---
I now give to my son Jno. T. Combs one feather bead & furniture & if not on hand I wish my excutors to buy them of good quality ---
I now give to my son Jno. Combs one feather bead & furniture & if not on hand I wish my excutors to buy them of good quality ---
I now leave all my chattle property not mentioned in my will to be sold by my excutors at a credit of six months and the balance of my negroes not mentioned in my will to be hired out two years and then to be equally divided amongst my living children and at the two years end I leave the money & notes that the chattle property and megros may hire for to be equally divided between my wife Nancy Combs and all my living children ---
And I hereby make and ordain my worthy friends Wm. Mann and James I. Pledger excutors of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I the said Jno. Combs have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal the day and year above written,
Signed, Seald, Published and Declard by the said testator to be his last will and testament in the presn
of us
Jno. Combs (Seal)
Witness
Benj. Sprill
Abram Alexander
F. Davenport
April Term 1840
Then was this will proved in open court by the oath of Abram Alexander one of the subscribing witness thereto. And at the same time apperd Jos. I Pledger one of the excutors and qualifid thereto - ordrd that the will be recorded.
Test Jos. Halsy Clk.
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