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DAVENPORT, ISAAC H.
State of North Carolina In the name of God Amen. I Isaac H Davenport of the
County of Tyrrell and state of North Carolina do hereby make and declare this to
be my last will and testament in manner and form following
Item 1st I give bequeath and devise to my beloved son Gilford L. Davenport
to him his heirs and assigns the following described tracts of Land. It
being the tract whereon I now reside and bounded as follows Beginning at Shell
Landing on the Scuppernong River then westwardly the edge of the swamp low water
mark then the various courses of the swamp to my road to two pines Stumps thence
westwardly along said road to the head of the old ditch then along said ditch
and swamp Northwardly to the river then southwardly along the old Patent line to
the Begining. Containing Eighty five acres more or less to have and to hold to
him the said Gilford L. Davenport his heirs & assigns. I also give
and bequeath to my beloved son Gilford L Davenport all of my personal
property of every nature and Kind. Item 2nd I give bequeath and devise to my beloved son Isaac H Davenport all the ballance of my land containing Eighty five acres more or less to have and to hold to him the said Isaac H Davenport his heirs and assigns Item 3d I give and bequeath to my beloved Daughter Nancy Davenport two hundred and fifty dollars in money to be paid to her by my son Gilford L Davenport within one year from and after the day my son Isaac H Davenport becomes twenty one years of age, there is to be no interest paid by him on this bequeath. Simply the Two hundred and fifty dollars and this bequest is to be a charge on the property given to my son Gilford L Davenport in the 1st Item of this my last will and testament
Isaac H Davenport (seal) Signed and Sealed in our presence at the request of said Isaac H Davenport we signed this as witnesses thereto Arthur Spruill A paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Isaac H Davenport deceased is exhibited before me the undersigned Judge of Probate in and for said County by Gilford L Davenport the executor therein named and the due execution thereof by the said Isaac H Davenport by the oath and examination of James O Mydgett and W. G. Colstan two of the subscribing witnesses thereto who being duly sworn doth depose and say and each for himself deposeth and saith that his is a subscribing witness to the paper writing now shown him purporting to be last will and testament of Isaac H Davenport that the said Isaac H Davenport in the presence of this deponant subscribed his name at the end of said paper writing which is now shown as aforesaid and which bears date 22d day of October 1880 and the deponant further says that the said Isaac H Davenport the testator aforesaid did at the time of subscribing his name as aforesaid declared the said paper writing so scribed by him and exhibited to be his last will and testament and this deponant did thereupon subscribe his name at the end of said will as an attesting witness thereto and at the request and in the presence of the said testator and this deponant further saith that at said time when said testator subscribed his name to the said Last will as aforesaid and at the time of the deponant subscribing his name as an attesting witness thereto as aforesaid Isaac H Davenport was of Sound mind and memory of full age to execute a will and was not under any restriction to the knowledge information and belief of this deponant and further these deponants says not James O Mydgett T L Jones Updated July 30, 2001
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