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WILL OF WILLIAM LADD 

MECKLENBURG COUNTY
        WILL BOOK 1 
        PAGE 333-334

I WILLIAM LADD OF THE COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG DO MAKE AND ORDAIN
 THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM FOLLOWING FIRST
 I LEND UNTO MY BELOVED WIFE URSULA THE PLANTATION WHEREON I NOW LIVE AND
 ALL MY ESTATE BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL DURING HER NATURAL LIFE OR WIDOWHOOD
 EXCEPT SUCH PART AS I SHALL HEREAFTER BEQUEATH AWAY.  ITEM I GIVE TO MY SON 
GARRARD LADD THE PLANTATION WHEREON HE NOW LIVES CONTAINING EITHTY FIVE
 ACRES - ACCORDING TO A LINE DRAWN TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVEVER, I GIVE TO
 MY SON WILLIAM LADD SIXTY FIVE ACRES OF LAND ACCORDING TO A LINE DRAWN TO 
HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER.  ITEM I GIVE TO MY SON THOMAS LADD TEN POUNDS
 CURRENT MONEY OF VIRGINIA TO BE RAISED OUT OF MY ESTATE AFTER THE DECEASE OF 
MY WIFE TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER.  INEM I GIVE TO MY SON JACOB LADD TEN POUNDS 
CURRENT MONEY OF VIRGINIA TO REASED OUT OF MY ESTATE AFTER THE DECEASE OF MY
 WIFE TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER.  ITEM I GIVE & BEQUEATH UNTO MY DAUGHTER
 HULDAH ONE FEATHER BED AND FURNITURE AND ONE COW AND CALF AND ONE WOOLING
 WHEAL AND ONE PAINFEARDS & ONE LOOM AND TWO STAYS AND
ONE DISH AND THREE PLATES TO HER AND HER HEIRS FOREVER.
ITEM I LEND TO BY DAUGHTER HULDAH AFTER THE DEATH OF MY WIFE THE USE OF ONE
HALF OF THE LAND WHEREIN I NOW LIVE ONE HALF OF THE ORCHARD AND OF THE NEW
HOUSE AND LIKEWISE NEGRO WILL DURING HER NATURAL LIFE OR MAIDENSHIP.  
ITEM I
GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY SON JAMES LADD THE LAND PLANTATION WHEREON I NOW LIVE
 AFTER DECEASE OR INTERMARRIAGE OF MY WIFE TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER. 
 ALSO I GIVE TO MY SAID SON JAMES ONE GOOD FEATHER BED AND FURNITURE TWO COWS 
AND ALSO ONE SOW AND PIGS AND FOUR CHAIRS AND ONE DISH AND THREE PLATES TO HIM
 & HIS HEIRS FOREEVER.  ITEM I GIVE TO MY DAUGHTER URSULA WHATEVER I HAVE ALREADY
 POSSESED HER WITH TO HER AND HER HEIRS FOREVER.  ITEM I GIVE TO MY DAUGHTER 
ELIZABETH WHATEVER I HAVE ALREADY POSSESSED HER WITH TO HER AND HER HEIRS 
FOREVER. 
 ITEM I 
GIVE TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER AGGATHY LADD ONE COW AND CALF TO HER AND HER HEIRS
FOREVER.  ITEM AFTER THE DECEASE OF MY WIFE OR HER INTERMARRIAGE AND AFTER THE
DECEASE OR INTERMARRIAGE OF MY DAUGHTER HULDAH MY WILL AND DESIRE IS THE THE
NEGRO FELLOW WILL SHALL HAVE IT IN HIS POWER TO CHOOSE WHICH OF MY CHILDREN HE
PLEASES TO LIVE WITH AND MY WILL IS THAT SUCH CHILD PAY FOR THE SAID WILL SUCH
PRICE AS TO INDIFFERENT PEOPLE SHALL ADJUDGE TO BE HIS WORTH WHICH MONEY I
GIVE TO BE EQUALLY DIVED AMONG ALL MY CHILDREN THAT SHALL BE THEN LIVING.
ITEM I 
APPOINT MY THREE SONS - WILLIAM, THOMAS AND JAMES LADD EXECUTORS OF THIS MY
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND
AFFIXED MY SEAL THIS 7TH DAY OF MARCH 1778.
SIGNED SEALED & DELIVERED
BEFORE US
(S) JOHN LADD
(S) HEZEKIAH TABOUR
(S) THOMAS STONE        (S) WILLIAM LADD    
(S) JOHN HALL junr
(S) ROBERT JOHNSON

AT A COURT HELD IN MECKLENBURG COUNT THE 8TH DAY OF MAY 1780 THIS WILL WAS 
PROVED BY THE OATH OF JOHN HALL & AFFIRMATION OF HEZEKIAH TABOR WITNESSES
THERTO 
AND ORDERED TO BE RECORDED AND ON THE MOTION OF WILLIAM LADD THOMAS LADD
 AND JAMES LADD THE EXECUTORS THEREIN NAMED WHO MADE OATH THERETO AND
 TOGETHER WITH JACOB LADD AND WILLIAM TAYLOR THERI SECURITIES ENTERED
 INTO THE ACKNOWLEDGED THEIR BOND IN THE PENALTY OF TEN THOUSAND POUNDS
 CONDITIONED AS THE LAW DIRECTS  CERTIFICATE IS GRANTED THEM FOR OBTAINING
 A PORBATE OF THE SAID WILL IN DUE 
FORM.
           TESTE            
        (S)  JOHN BROWN C??

Submitted BY: Charles Ladd

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