- IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN.
This Sixth Day of September, Anno, Seventeen hundred & forty three. I, John Slade, of Hyde County, in the province of North Carolina, being Sick & weak of Body, but of Perfect Sense & Memory, Blessed be God for it, do Constitute & Ordain this my Last Will & Testament, That is is to Say, first, I Give & bequeath my Soul to God that Gave it me; & my body I Commit to the Earth to be buried in a Chrisitan Like Manner; and as for what wordly Goods the Lord in his Mercy hath been pleased to bestow on me I Give & bequeath as followeth, Viz.:
Imprimis, I Give unto my Eldest Son, John Slade, the plantation he now lives on, with a hundred & twenty five Acres of Land, it being the Land I bought of John Smith, Cooper, to him & his heirs for ever.
Item, I Give to my Son, Benjamin Slade, the plantation I now dwell on with a Line that I have made adjoyning to the Land I bought of John Smith, Cooper, & So running up the Creek to a Pine Markt, & So round to the Said Land that I bought of the Said Smith, to him & his heirs for ever.
Item, I Give to my Son, William Hodges Slade, the remainder Part of the Manner Plantation which in my Patent is five hundred & Eighty Acres, of what is Left out of th ePatent of my Son, Benjamin Slade Land, which I have bounded by Markt trees; & Also a tract Land one hundred & fifty Six Acres of Land & adjoining to the former pieces of Land, to him & his heirs for ever.
Item, I Give unto my Son, Hezekiah Slade, the Remainder part of two hundred & fifty Acres as by patent doth appear; & also the remainder part of one hundred & fifty Acres I bought of Francis Banks, it being the remainder part of both parcels I haveing already made a deed of Gift & Given to my Daughter, Mary Jewel, & her husband Ben: JEwel, as by bounds doth appear that I have made be the Same more or Less, & the remainder of the said two parcels of Land I Give unto my Son, Hezekiah Slade, & his heirs for ever.
Items, I have already Given to my Daughter, Mary Jewel, & Benj: Jewel, her husband, two hundred Acres of Land, be the Same More or Less, as by a Deed a Gift More & at Large appears bearing date the Sixth Day of September, Anno, 1737: & also a parcel of Cattle, which is to be there full part & portion of My Estate & I Demise that they shall not Come in for no more.
Item, I Give unto my Son, Hez: Slade, one Gun.
Item, I Give unto my Son, Wm: Hodges Slade, one Gun.
Item, I Give unto my Son, Benjn: Slade, one Gun.
Item, I Give unto my Son, Hez: Slade, one Cow & Calf.
Item, I Give unto my Son, Wm: Hodges Slade, what Cattle is in his Mark which is under Square the Left ear.
Item, I Give unto my Son, Benjn: Slade, what Cattle is in his Mark which is Crop & an under bit & one Slit in the Right Ear.
Item, I Gie unto my Daughter, Sarah Slade, what Cattle is in her Mark which is under Square the Right Ear.
Item, I Give unto my Daughter, Kezia Slade, one feather bed & furniture.
Item, I Give unto my welbeloved Wife, Abigal Slade, all the rest of my Moveables within Doors & Without, that I have not already, be it of what kind Soever, or in any wise appertaining to me, to her & her Disposals.
And I will that my Wife, Abigal Slade, by my Sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament & that She Satisfie all my Debt that I Justly owe to any person
John X Slade (SEAL)
Signed, Sealed & Pronounced in
the Presence of us, to be the Last
Will & Testament of the Testator:
Richard Leath
William Wilkinson
Uriah Collins
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d. 1730, Sladesville, Hyde Co., North Carolina, USA 
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