Return to Tyrrell Co Wills Introduction & Table of ContentsIn the name of God amen: The first day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred seventy nine I Thomas Fagans of the County of Tyrrl and State of North Carolina being in perfect heath of body and of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed once for all men to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommed my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian buriel at the discretion of my Executors 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 wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give dimise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form that is to say.
Imprimis - In the first place I give and bequeath unto my beloved nephew James Blount my plantation known by the name of Barrets and all the land thereunto belonging to have and to hold the above said plantation to him his heirs Executors Administrators and assigns forever.
Item - I will the remainder part of my Estate may be equally devided between my sister Judith Blount and Arther Rhoads my brother to them their heirs and assigns forever.
Item - I do likewise constitute mak and ordain Emond Blount Junr. my Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disanul all and every other former Testaments Wills and Legacys bequeath and Executor by me in any before this time named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Thomas Fagan
Signed Sealed Published and
Declared by Thomas Fagan
to be his last Will & Testament
in the presence of
Benjamin Blount
Africa Blount
Minutes
Tyrrell County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
October Session 1780
Africa Blount appeared in open court and proved the last will and testament of Thomas Fagan ordered to be registered.
Mr. Edmund Blount appeared in open court and quallified as executor to the last will and testament of Thomas Fagan.
July Session 1783
Appeared Frily Jones in open court & exhibited a division of the estate of Thomas Fagan deceased between Col. Edmd. Blount & Arthur Rhoades being the legal representatives of the said Thos. Fagan deceased and ordered to be filed.
North Carolina Archives
Loose Estate Papers
Tyrrell County (C.R.096.508.19), Box 19
Fagan, Thomas, 1783
Valuation on 4 Jul 1783 of the moveable estate of Thomas Fagans deceased by Thomas Stubbs, John Stubbs & Friley Jones. Rear of sheet identifies it as "division or valuation."
Transcriber's Notes:
The will of William Rhodes written in 1765 cites Thomas Fagan as his son in law and Arthur and Judith Rhodes as his children. Tyrrell County marriage bonds show the marriage of Judath Rhoads to Edmund Blount on 30 Dec 1777, Joseph Whedbee security. The name of Thomas Fagan's wife is unknown and, based on the fact she is not mentioned in his will, may have died prior to his death, or perhaps he had never married since he apparently had no children.
See the estate file on William Fagan in 1758.
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