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Will of NATHAN BASS-1837
Granville County Wills 1837-1840
Will Book 14, Page 20
In the name of God, Amen. I NATHAN BASS of the County of Granville & State of North Carolina being of sound mind & disposing memory do ordain this to be my last will & testament revoking all former Wills by me made.
1st. I want all my just debts paid by my Executor hereafter named for him to sell such property as I shall not hereafter will for the payment of my debts.
2nd. I give & bequeath unto my wife MARTHA BASS one desk, one bed & necessary furniture, one spinning wheel, one flax wheel, one cow & calf, one sow & pigs, the choice of my horses, one side saddle, one pot & oven, one set of knives & forks, half dozen puter plates, two decanters, one tub & pail. I also loan unto my wife MARTHA BASS during her life ten acres of land to include the dwelling houe that I now live in & also the out houses, to be laid off as she may think proper (reserving one acre of land around the Grave yard for a family burying ground) And I loan her my still during her life and at her death I give the above still & ten acres of land to WARNER TANNER [sic] better known by the name of WARNER BASS to him & his heirs forever.
3rd. I give & bequeath unto the aforesaid WARNER TINER all of that part of my land lying South of the Big path running from WILLIAM BRADFORDs to MRS. ANN S. TAYLOR's in the tract I now live on to the line of LEWIS PETIFORD, one black horse, which he has now in possession, one cart, and one half doz. puter plates to him & his heirs forever.
4th. I give & bequeath unto LEWIS PETIFORD who married my daughter DIZA fifty acres of land be the same more or less being the land on which the said PETIFORD now lives bounded by the land of JOSHUA HUTCHINSON dec'd & others and one pot to him & his heirs forever.
5th. I give and bequeath unto my daughter HONOR JONES that part of my land not already divided (that is) all on the East side of the Pathway frm my house to WILLIAM DIMENTs to her & her heirs forever.
6th. I give & bequeath to my son JESSE BASS five shillings to him & his heirs forever.
7th. I give & bequeath to my Grandson LEMUEL VALENTINE five shillings to him & his heirs forever.
8th. I give & bequeath unto my daughter SALLY PETIFORD five shillings to her & her heirs forever.
All the property I have not named in the above will I want my Executor to sell and if there should be more than will pay my debts i want it equally divided between my wife MARTHA & WARNER TINER. I the said NATHAN BASS do hereby appoint WILLIAM BRADFORD Executor to this my last Will & Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 2nd day January A.D. 1835.
NATHAN BASS ("X" his mark)
Signed & acknowledged in presence of us
D. A. PASCHALL
BENJ'A KITRELL
A. H. WALKER
State of North Carolina
Granville County
August Court A.D. 1837
The execution of the foregoing last Will and Testament of NATHAN BASS dec'd, was duly proven on oath in open court by DANIEL A. PASCHALL and ANDERSON H. WALKER two of the subscribing witnesses thereto. And BENJAMIN KITRELL the other subscribing witness being dead, DANIEL A. PASCHALL made oath that the signature "BENJA KITRELL" is in the proper handwriting of BENJAMIN KITRELL & that he witnessed the same in the presence of the other Witnesses. On motion it is ordered to be recorded.
Witness
JAS. M. WIGGINS, Clk
(Nathan Bass, b. abt 1752, illegitimate son of George Anderson & Lovey Bass; he was married 1st to Sarah Bass, 2nd to Martha Bass)
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