Richard BENNETT

- Abt 1764

• Name	Richard BENNETT
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	8110
  Will	Will of RICHARD BENNETT Bute Co. North Carolina 1764 In the name of God amen I RICHARD BENNITT of the County of Bute and Colony of North Carolina - Being through the abundant mercy of God tho Weak in Body yet of a sound an perfect understanding and Memory and knowing the Uncertainty of this Life and that all men Must Die and Return to their Mother Earth Do Constitute this my last will and Testament and Desire it may be taken as Such by al Imprimis I most Humbly Bequeath my Soul to God my Maker Beseeching his most gracious Acceptance of itt through the all Sufficient merits and meditation of my most Compassionate Redeemer Jesus Christ in this hope and Confidence I Render my Soul with Comfort & Imprimus and as for my Body I give to the Earth from whence it was taken in full assurance of its Resurrection from thence at the Last Day and as for my Burial I Desire that It may be ordered in a Decent manner at the Direction of my Executors Here after named and as to my worldly goods which it hath been please God to bestow on fare above my deserving I will and positively order that all my Debts that in Right and Conscience I owe to any man be paid in Convenient Time after my Decease by my Executors Hereafter named #3 Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Christian Langston The wife of Absalom Langston one Bed and furniture. #4 Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Langston the wife of Solomon Langston five Shilling Sterling money #5 Item I give and bequeath to my son Richard Bonit foure head of cattle and foure head of Sheep and my Shue maker tools and one sithe #6 Item I give and bequeath to my Son Mark Bennit five shillings Sterling money #7 Item I give and Bequeath to my Son William Bonnit one Negro Boy Named Robin #8 Item I give and bequeath to my Son Moses Bennitt one Bed and Furniture and three head of cattle and my Riding Mare #9 Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Martha Bennitt one Natural Paceing Mare Colt one Cow and Calf two Dishes #10 Item I give and Bequeath to my Son James Bonnit one Negro girl named Jean and Her increase #11 Item I give and Bequeath to my Daughter Ann Bonnit one Cow and Calf #12 Item I give and Bequeathe to my Daughter Amey Bennit one Cow and Ca #13 Item I give and Bequeath to my Loveing wife ANN BONNIT the use of my Whole Estate Dureing Life or Widdow Hood My Desire is and will is that all the Remainder of my Estate that I have not all Ready given What so Ever or Where So Ever after the Limited time to be Equally Divided Between my three Daughters to wit Martha Ann and Amey Further more my will and Desire is that my three Sons to witt Richard Mark and William Shall Divide the Same #14 Item I do hereby ordain Constitute and appoint my Loveing wife ANN BENNITT Mark Bennitt and William Bennitt my whole and Sole Executors of this my Last will and Testament utterly Disannuling all former Wills here to fore by me made. In witness whereof I have here unto Set my hand and affixed My Seal this third Day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred Sixty and foure. Signed Seald and Delivered Bute County for August Court 1764 In the Presence of us This will was proved by the Oaths James Thompson of James Thompson & Drucilla Susannah Malone Thompson two of the Subscribing Drucilla Thompson witnesses thereby & on Motion it was ordered to be Recorded. Then ANN BENNET Executrix & Mark Bennett & William Bennett Executors therein named Qualified as such which on Motion was ordered to be Ceritified Ben McCullock CC Will Book 1760-1800 - Part 1, page 11 3 August 1764 August Court 1764 Bute County, North Carolina
  Died	Abt 1764	Bute County, North Carolina
  Person ID	I8110	Bennetts of Pittsylvania County
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2012

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann BEATTY
  Family ID	F1584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Granville Co., NC Deed Book E, pg. 237 1762, Richard Bennett gives to son William land on the fork of Buffalo Branch, northside of Great Fishing Creek. To have land after my death and death of my wife Ann Bennett, 100 acres, part of the tract where I now live, beginning at Richard Bennet's Spring Br. Wits: Thomas Turner, Cannon Cooper, William Cooper. Rec. May 1762 --------------------- Granville Co., NC Deed Book F, pg. 379 1762, Richard Bennett of St. John's Parish, to son Mark Bennett, 85 acres on Buffalo Creek. Wits: John Bennett, John Smart. August Court 1763