Samuel Pratt

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Anson County NC Slave Data & Free Persons of Color
October 10, 2020
Will of Samuel Pratt (son of William Pratt who died in 1817) Anson County NC Will Book B Pages 197 thru 200. Written May 12, 1843 – Probated October of 1845;
In the name of God Amen, I Samuel Pratt of the County of Anson & State of North Carolina, being of sound mind & disposing memory do make, ordain & publish this to be my last Will & Testament as follows;
Item #1 – I give & devise to my son John Pratt & his heirs five hundred acres of land, being the last tract I purchased of W. H. Harrington & also the following Negro slaves by the names of Ben, Stephen, Tom & George & should my son die without lawful heirs of his body, then the said land & slaves are to go to my other children & their heirs surviving.
Item #2 – I give & devise to Alexander McAlpine Alexander Smith McAlpine & John Pratt & their heirs, the plantation whereon I now live (embracing the Carter, Nancy Curtis & Short properties) and also the Negro slaves by the names of Hardy, Jim, Henderson & Nelson to hold in trust for my son William Pratt during his natural life & after his death to go to his lawful children & their heirs but should he die without any children, then the property would go to my other children & their heirs.
Item #3 – I give & devise to Alexander McAlpine & John Pratt & their heirs, the lands I first purchased of Col. H. W. Harrington, lying on the south side of Jones Creek, together with one hundred & seventy-five acres that I purchased from Chaney Moorman & also the slaves by the names of Aaron, Ned, Charles & Aleck, to be held in trust for my son Hiram Pratt, during his natural life & after his death to his lawful children & their heirs & should he die without having an lawful issue of his body, then to my other children & their heirs that are surviving.
Item #4 – I give & devise to Alexander McAlpine & John Pratt & their heirs in trust for sole & separate use & benefit of my daughter Sara Brooks & her heirs, the land situated north of Jones Creek of the first purchase I made of H. W. Harrington, together with one half of the old tract I purchased of H. M. Evans & also the slaves Hal, Little Joe & Marlow.
Item #5 – I give & devise to Alexander McAlpine & John Pratt & their heirs in trust for the sole & separate use & benefit of my daughter Charlotte Short (wife of Thomas Short) & her heirs, one half of the lands that I purchased from John C. McKenzie & also the following slaves; Lila Lila, slave woman & her youngest child & Esther & her youngest child.
Item #6 – I give & devise to Alexander McAlpine & John Pratt & their heirs in trust for the sole & separate use & benefit of my daughter Nancy Short (wife of Daniel Short) & her heirs, the tract of land known as “Magnolia” where Daniel Short now lives which was purchased from Farquhar McRae & also the following slaves; Old Joe, Ann & child & Esther.
Item #7 – I give & devise to Alexander McAlpine & John Pratt & their heirs, the lands that embrace in the second purchase that I made of H. W. Harrington together with one half of the old place known as the Evans & Adams lands & also the slave woman Phyllis & her child & their increase, to have & to hold in trust for the sole & separate use & benefit of my granddaughter, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas & Eddy Bailey, for her natural life & after her death to her children & if she dies without any children, then to be equally divided between my children (her uncles & aunts on her mother’s side) & their heirs surviving.
Item #8 – I give & devise to Eliza McAlpine, wife of Alexander McAlpine, the other half of the John C. McKenzie lands (the one half having been already divided to Charlotte Short). I also give to Eliza Alpine, the slave girls Sylvia & Betsy & also fourteen hundred and fifty dollars to her & her heirs.
Item #9 – All the residue of my estate both real & personal that I devise shall be equally divided amongst all my children & all that part or portion which may fall to my sons; Hiram Pratt & William Pratt & to my daughters; Sara Brooks, Nancy Short & Charlotte Short & my granddaughter Ann Elizabeth Bailey. I leave to Alexander McAlpine & John Pratt & their heirs, to be held by them in trust in the same manner & for the same purposes as is herein before respectively provided.
Item #10 – I nominate, constitute & appoint John Pratt & Alexander McAlpine, Executors of this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking all other Wills heretofore made by me & declaring this & this only to be my last Will & Testament on this May 12th of 1843
Samuel Pratt
Signed, sealed, published & declared to be the last Will & Testament of this Testator in the presence of us, who in the presence of the Testator & of each other have witnessed the same. Transaction witnessed by Dudley D. Daniel & C.C. McCaskill.
Anson County Clerk of Court – October Term 1845 – Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions – The last Will & Testament of Samuel Pratt was duly proven in open court by the oaths of the witnesses, whereas John Pratt & Alexander McAline qualified as Executors of the estate of Samuel Pratt.
Norfleet D. Boggan – Clerk of Anson County Superior Court

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