ORANGE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Young Dorch - 1 Oct 1826

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Orange County, North Carolina

Will Recording, Book F, Page 315 & 316

Young Dorch - October 1, 1826

I Young Dorch of the County of Orange and State of North Carolina being of sound mind & memory but considering the uncertainty of my earthly existence do make & declare this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say

First that my executors hereinafter named shall provide for my body a decent burial suitable to the wishes of my family & pay all funeral expenses together with my just debts howsoever & to whomsoever coming out of the money that may first come into their hands as a part or parcel of my estate.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my beloved wife Nancy Dorch the plantation on which I now live together with Jinny, Mirinda and Edy with their increase also all the stock of hogs cattle & horses household & kitchen furniture with the crop of corn, wheat & oats on hand at my decease to be hers & at her dispose or during the term of her natural life at her decease I desire that said plantation with Jinny & Edy with their increase belong to my daughter Lucy Walker & her heirs to be hers and at her disposal forever the above mentioned girl Mirinda I give to my wife in fee simple with all her increase to be at her own disposal forever.

Item. I give & devise to my son John Dorch a negro boy Willis to be his at a fair valuation by two good men and not otherwise also an equal share of the household & kitchen furniture at the decease of my wife.

Item. I give & devise to my daughter Mary Nichols a negro girl Dilcy & her increase to be hers at a fair valuation by two good men & not otherwise also an equal part of my household & kitchen furniture at the decease of my wife.

Item. I give & devise unto my daughter Emeline wife of David Lockhart a negro boy Dennis to be hers at a fair valuation by two good men & not otherwise also an equal part of my household & kitchen furniture at the death of my wife. I devise further that if the three last married legatees refuse to take the said slaves and pay a fair valuation as above required that they be sold by my executors and the proceeds applied to my debts.

Item. I give & devise to my daughter Lucy Walker the plantation on which I now live also two slaves Jinny & Edy with all their increase to be hers & her heirs in fee simple forever after the decease of my wife also an equal part of my household & kitchen furniture.

Item. I give & devise unto my son David Dorch the sum of two hundred dollars to be paid him by my other children proportionally as they have received of by estate to be his in fee simple forever.

And lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my trusty friends John Y Dorch & David Lockhart my lawful Executors to all intents & purposes to execute this my last will & testament according to the true intent & meaning of the same & Every part & clause thereof _ hereby revoking & declaring utterly void all other wills & testaments by me heretofore made.

In witness whereof I the said Young Dorch do hereunto set my hand and seal this 1st day of October A.D. 1826

Signed Sealed & delivered his

In presence of Young X Dorch (seal)

Jno C. Douglas mark

Martin Murphey

Orange County November Term 1826

The Execution of the foregoing Will was duly proved in open court by the

oath of Jno C Douglas a subscribing witness thereto and ordered to be

recorded Whereupon John Y Dorch one of the executors therein named appeared

and qualified as such

Test.