In the name of God Amen
I,  John Wright Stanly, do make and ordain this my last Will and
Testament.

First ;  I appoint my wife Ann Stanly, my Executrix & Thomas
Turner, my Executor, Guardians to my children, my wife's Trust
however in both cases to cease on her second marriage.

Secondly ;  I desire that all my debts may be honestly paid. I
mean in such kind of money as I agreed to pay when I contracted
them, and not depretiated paper for Gold & Silver, and this as
soon as the amount can be raised by the collection of debts due
me, the produce of my Farm, rents of my Town property, or sale of
my public secureties.

Thirdly ; If my wife should marry it is my will, that a valuation
of my whole estate be made on oath by, Gen'l Bryan, Rich'd Dobbs
Spaight, John Green, John Sitgreaves & Edward Bryan, or any three
of them. That my debts be deducted from the amount and the
balance divided into equal shares ,( To Wit ) One for my wife &
one for each of my children then living, my wife taking her
choice of said shares which share by her chosen I give and
bequeath to her & her heirs forever. But if my wife remains a
widow I lend her during her life or wodowhood my lots in the Town
of New Bern No 280, 281, 282, & 283 with my dwelling house and
every other improvement on the said lots together with all my
household and kitchen furniture, plate, china, Carriages and
Carriage horses, and the following Negroes, To Wit; Venture,
Nelly, Barbary, Phebe, Sam, Alcey, Little Garbary, Jack, & Moody,
and I leave my said wife during her life or widowhood five
hundred Spanish Mill Dollars or the value thereof in currant
money per annum to be paid quarterly by my Excutor.

Fourthly ; all the rest and residue of my estate not given or
lent as aforesaid, I bequeath to my children, to be equally
divided as they respectively arrive at age. And on the marriage
or death of their mother I leave the property lent to her to be
divided in the same manner, the valuation & division to be made
by any three of the five Gentlemen named heretofore.

Fifthly ; I desire my children may be liberaly educated & the
boys put apprentice to learn such professions or trades as their
abilities seem best adapted to, and when my eldest son arrives to
the age of twenty one years I appoint him an Executor to this my
last will & testament and a guardian to my other children.

Sixthly ; I desire that the partnership of John Wright Stanly, &
Co. or as it is now called Stanly & Turner, in which Thomas
Turner  is interested one sixth part and I five sixth , may
continue under the direction of said Turner untill the debts due
by the said Copartnership are fully paid or untill he has
sufficiency in hand of the Companies effects to pay their debts
after which if agreeable to said Turner, it is my will that the
business of said Partnership be continued half on his account and
half on mine, untill my eldest son shall come of age, in this
case no charge to be made for the use of my wharf, stores, or
Distillery, nor Mr. Turner, for his trouble of conducting the
business and lastly I recommend that my slaves be kept at work on
my farm under Industrious humane overseerers and that other farms
be settled on my unimproved lands if my Excutors think proper.
And I hereby revoke all former Wills by me made, & in testimony
thereof have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty second day
of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty eight.

                                J.W. Stanly  { seal }


Craven County, Court
June Term 1789

Then was the foregoing last will and testament of  John Wright
Stanly, Dec'd  produced in open court, and there being no
subscribing evidence thereto the hand writing of the said
deceased  was proved by the oath of Richard Caswell, John C.
Bryan, William Shepard & William Slade, who swore that they were
well aquainted with hand writting of the said deceased and verily
believed that the said will was written & signed by him, which
was admitted by the court and ordered to be registered, and at
the same time the Executrix & Excutor therein named to wit Ann
Stanly, & Thos. Turner, appeared in court and qualified as such
agreeable to law, Ordered that Letters Testamentary Issue .Test


                                Samuel Chapman,  C.C.


North Carolina
Craven County

I William M. Watson, Clerk of the Superior Court in and for the
County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true and perfect Copy of the last Will and Testament of John
Wright Stanly, Dec'd, and probate thereof duly recorded in record
of  Will's  "A"  folio 198.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of
said court, in office at New Bern, N.C. this 6th day of March
A.D. 1908

                                W.M. Watson

                                Clerk Superior Court
                                { Court Seal }



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