I Christopher osborn farming freeholder in macklinburg [County] and State pf north Carolina being Seak and weaklie in body for _____ time and calling the mind my mortalty being in a sound ay both of mind and Judgment and has plesed an _______ God to bliss me with a memory formally do Chose to make this my last ill testament and first I recommend my Soul to almighty God who give it being he would be greacously pleased to accept the sem for [what] Jesus hath don and suffered for a lost and ruined world with regard to what the worlds goods it hath plesed God to bliss me I Chose to dispose of in the following manner and first I allow all my just and lawful debts to be dischearged Item I bequaith unto my well beloved wife Sarah Osborn the plantation I now live on with all the working instruments or tacklins on the sam all the Creatures cows horses hogs houses plenishening or furnuirtor During Widdo hood only it is to be observed that what ever creatures are hearafter named are Excepted.
Item I bequaith unto my well beloved doughter mary poak five pound in monie or value
Item I bequaith unto my well beloved Doughter rebaca powell five pound in monie or value
Item I bequaith unto my well beloved Doughter Asenia Howell five pound in monie or vallow
Item I bequaith unto my Well beloved doughter ferve Osborn the Sum of twenty pound in money or vallow
Item I bequath unto my well beloved doughter Cherity Osborn the sum of twenty pound in money or vallow
Item I bequaith unto my well beloved doughter liddia the sum of twenty pound in monie or vallow
Item I bequaith unto my well beloved doughter Millie osborn the sum of twenty pound in money or vallow
Item I bequith unto my well beloved doughter Elizabeth Osborn the sum of twenty pound in monie or vallow
Item bequith unto my well beloved son janutatn Osborn that plantation fradrick Carlock now lives on and one negroman named nead and ahors named dick taken thatis the above described plantation hath two de[e]ds
Item I bequaith unto my well beloved son Chirstofor Osborn all and Every of the passels or perselles of land to m_______ deaded and granted Itam as I belive my well beloved wife is pregnant with child My will is as follows Should it pleas an al_______ that child ______ to the age of twenty one that after said child is scold to reed at and write that at the Eadg of twenty one he shall one hundred poun payed by my son Christofor Osborn or to have the vallow therof in land as fee that is the abov described child shall chuse but Should the child beafemal and arrive at the Eadge of Eighteen years then I beuaith unto her the sum of twenty pounds in mony or vallow the Negro bob I bequaith to my son and Christofor Osborn Itam I appoint and nomnate my well beloved wife Serah Osborn and Ja___han my son to be the only Exectors of this my last will and testment and my wife to have the who__des posel of all and singelor negreoss and primisses as above named for the good of the fammaly and that during widdohude and do revoak all other wills or testimets whatsoever ackknowklidging this as my last will and testment with my seal this thirtinth day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty Eight 1788
Witness present the word [county] Eclined before sining
Michal Garman
Joseph howell
Archibald White Jurat
Christo______ Osborn (seal)
NB January the 22 1789 Should the Lord be pleased in the Course of his ______ and ______ _____ to remove any of my meal children before they ariv at the Eadge of twenty one I then order and _______ and bequaith that ones part to the surving meal _____ and should the child that my dear and loving wife pragent with at this date be a male I allow that whoever of the three be removed that an Equal [third] be m a__ that ones part to the survaiveing male or mals this acknowledges my last will the day and year above in presence of
John Carothers Archald white
a_______ Edger
the word divid__ lined before siningChristofor (his mark) Osborn
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