In the name of God amen: I Ephrom Sawyer of the county of Tyrrell Farmer being infirm in body but in a low state of health, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in form following. That is to say I give and recommend my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion of my Executors and touching such worldly Estate which it hath pleased God to bless me with I Will and bequeath in the following manner and form.

Item - I bequeath unto my son Josiah Sawyer seventy acres of land which I now live on in the said county aforesaid one hand mill, one gun two heifers four year old next spring, and all my Plantation tools, one small dish and two three quart basons two pewter plates.

Item - I give unto my eldest daughter Kesiah Sawyer one bed and furniture belonging to it, half a dozen pewter plates, two pewter basons one three quart, One and the other a quart bason, One flat iron two chairs two cows and cows yearlings.

Item - I guve unto my next eldest daughter Sarah Sawyer one new bed and furniture belonging to it half a dozen new pewter plates two three pint basons, nine pewter spoons one flat iron, two chairs, two cows and one heifer yearling.

Item - I give unto Francis Sawyer my dearly beloved wife ten stocks of bees and their increase and what household goods that aint mentioned her life time and then at her decease to be divided between the three small children equally, by her truly to be possessed with and enjoyed.

I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every former Testaments and Wills by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 29th day of November 1789.

Updated April 15, 2001
Jean H. Pennell

Will from Tyrrell County, North Carolina Genealogy