Sutton-NC-Will-1750-1751

SUTTON, Thomas, NC, 1750

Thomas Sutton Will- 2/3/1750/51 - 3/2/1750 Recorded in Bertie Co., April Court 1757, Benj. Wynn cc Taken from copy of original record - NC Archives

The third day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred & fifty one. 

I Thomas Sutton of the county of Bertie in the Province of North Carolina...

I give to my Son John Sutton One negro man named Andrew 

I give to my Children hereafter named (viz) William, George, Joshua, Parthenia, Mary Elizabeth, Jesper, Sarah & Judith Eight Negros (viz) Tom, Moll, Dinah, Jane, Little Moll, Dick, Hannah & Patt, they & their increases to be Equally divided amongst them at the Expiration of Six Years from this Date, reserving the use & Services of said negros during these said Six Years for the maintainance & Schoolling of my five Youngest Children. 

Proved before GAB. JOHNSTON	Eden House March 2, 1750

On Monday 7 March 1757 the Negroes were divided among William, George, Joshua, Parthenia, Mary Sutton, Jesper, Sarah & Judith. Mary Sutton received Dinah.

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