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- Sept. 1734
ENOCH WARD ESQ, CAME INTO OPEN COURT AND MADE OATH UPON THE HOLY EVANGELIST THAT THE FOLLOWING PERSONS WAS AND IS NOW OF HIS OWN PROPER FAMILY. ENOCH WARD, WIFE ELIZABETH WARD, SON RICHARD WARD, DAUGHTERS ANN WARD, MARTHA WARD, ELIZABETH WARD, MARY WARD, AND SARAH WARD, JOHN WILLIAMSON, JANE WILLIAMSON, ANN WILLIAMSON, RICHARD WILLIAMSON, NEGROS JOBE, WILL, SHARPER, JEMMY, GEORGE, DOLL AND DINA AND AN INDIAN MAN JUDE.
Feb Court 1750
In the name of God Amen, I Enoch Ward, being very sick and weak of body but of perfect mind... I desire that all debts be paid by my wife Mary, and she to have half the household goods, and my Negroes and my stock during her lifetime, and then her part to my son Enoch at age 17. My daughters Anne, Martha, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Abigail and Susannah to have the other half of my household goods. I give to James Shackleford 250 acres of my Banks land and the rest to my son Richard and his heirs. Son Richard is to be executor.
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- 1750