AAFA Wills
WILL OF JACOB ALFORD

In the name of God Amen

I Jacob Alford planter in Robeson County being very well in health and perfect sound in Judgment and perfect memory thanks be to God for his mercies. Knowing the mortality of my body do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I order my Just debts to be paid and for the Love and affect (ion) I have to my beloved wife Mary Alford I order to be given her four negroes named Hardy, Marget, Mint and Tom and at her death Tom to my youngest son Wiley and Mint to Lod my Son Except the first increase of her body to Wiley. I order my son Warren have Leat (?) my negroe winch. I order that my Daughter Charity have my negroe Yall Safron Except the first child to my son Lias. I order that my son Lias have my negroe boy Nat. I order that my son Warren Alford to have my negroe fellow Hardy after my wifes death and Marget to my son James Alford after her death. I order that all my land on Ashpole be given to my son James Alford Except one hundred acres to my son Sion Alford provided that he pays Sion Alford for the part of said land that he bought of him agreable to bargain. I order that half the land that is in the new survey that is in Trawicks name that, I have his bond for title, be given to my son Sion Alford direct from the Rim of the swamp agreable with his long line to the out side line of said Survey and that none of these lands be sold to pay any of my debts that I give to son Sion and James. I order the land that I bought of Sollomon Nolton in South Carolina the titles to be made, to my wife. I order that all the land that belong to the plantation whereon I now live with all the improvements and the tract of Land on the great Mach be sold to pay my debts and the young bay horse and the black horse. I order that all my Estate be divided betwixt my sons Lod, Lias and Wiley at my wife death Except one bed and furniture to my Daughter Charity. I order that all my debts be put to the use of paying of my debts. I order that my Executors sell all the property that I have ordered to be sold at private sale or publick sale as they see fit to put it to the best advantage of settling of my debts and that this Deed be a good and lawful right for the land and if the property that I have left to be sold and my debts will not pay my debts I order that Equal proportions be taken from Warrens, Lod, Lias and Wiley parts til the sum be made up or they pay the Equal part. I order that Sion Alford, Warren Alford my sons and Elias Barnes be Executors to my will signed, sealed this 4th day of July 1794.

Jacob Alford

Mary (M) Alford

(her mark)

Test Duncan McEacharn

Saraann McTyer Sion Alford

Robeson Co., North Carolina Record of Wills Years 1787 - 1847 Vol. 1, page 36

[ Note: I added some punctuation - commas and periods for easier reading. Janice Smith]