Wm Anderson McCoy Genealogy

In the name of God Amen. I Mary Finn of the County of Orange & state of North Carolina - being weak in body but sound in mind & memory Blessed be God for the same, do publish and make this my last Will and testament in manner & form following– And first I give & bequeath my soul to the Lord who gave it to me. Item second: I give & bequeath my body to the Earth from whence it (was?) taken and to be buried in decent order at the discretion of my friends.

Item third: My Will is that my beds& furniture be sold together with my household & kitchen furniture cattle & hogs etc etc including a small note on John Compton for the sum of seven dollars, to pay my outstanding debts, and if that should not be sufficient to pay them my Will further is that the land I now live on which my uncle Caleb Wilson bought for a home for me that he sells it and pays my aunt Betsy Allison the amount of money Principle and interest that she is due Nicholas Hester and Warren & Corbett for my deceased husband Gabriel Finn together with what other money she has expended or may expend on my account and my Will further is that my Doctors bill be paid ad all my funeral charges and expenses whatever, & the overplus, if any, be equally divided between Catharine Wilkerson, Nancy Wilkerson, Robert Wilkerson, Margaret Riggs and Lucinda Wilkerson, daughter of James Wilkerson dec’d and lastly I constitute & appoint my uncle Caleb Wilson Executor to this my last Will and testament to do and manage in the best manner he possible can. Given under my hand & sealed with my seal this 14th day of February AD 1846. Signed in the presence of us

Test Sanders Riley. William T. Tate Servant
Mary Finn (X her mark) (Seal)

Orange County. August Term 1846
The Execution of the foregoing last Will and testament of Mary Finn, dec’d was duly proved in open Court by the oaths of Sanders Riley & Wm L Tate the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. At the same time Caleb Wilson, the Executor, therein named appeared in open court and qualified accordingly. Test.