Will, NC, Northampton, Halcot Briggs Pride 1796 I HALCOT B. PRIDE do make an ordained this to you my last will and testament as to all the property both real and personal of which I am possessed. FIRST it is my will that my executors hereafter named pay all of my debts out of the crop presently here, and, if this fund should prove deficient it is my wish that they should be paid as soon as may be out of the succeeding crops. SECOND I give and bequeath to ALLEN JONES, WILEY JONES, and JAMES BRADLEY and to their heirs forever, the land and plantation whereon I now live in the county of Northampton in the state of North Carolina known by the name of MONTE CAILLOUX [MONTE CAILLOUX SHARES NAME WITH THEIR VIRGINIA PLANTATION.], the island in Roanoke River known by the name of LONG ISLAND, and the following slaves to wit: PREICE, her daughter SILLAH, SAM, JACOB, LEWIS, and his wife JENNY, their two children KITTY and OSBORNE, FANNY, and JUDY all of the stock of hogs sheep and cattle implements of husbandry household and kitchen furniture which are on the said plantation of MONTE CAILLOUX and five horses to be chosen from my whole stock by MARY the wife of CADWALLADER JONES all of which I give to the said ALLEN JONES, WILEY JONES, and JAMES BRADLEY and to their heirs forever but upon, this is special trust and confidence that they, the said ALLEN JONES, WILEY JONES, and JAMES BRADLEY and their heirs will receive the rents issues and profits of the above mentioned property and pay the same to the said MARY during her life to the sole separate and exclusive use and benefit of the said MARY without the interference or control of her said husband. in any manner whatever. and upon is further trust and confidence that they said they the said ALLEN JONES, WILEY JONES, and JAMES BRADLEY and their hairs will receive the rent issues and profits from the above mentioned property which may accrue after the death of the said MARY and pay the same to her son HALCOT PRIDE and his heirs forever. THIRD I give and bequeath to the same ALLEN JONES, WILEY JONES, and JAMES BRADLEY and their heirs forever all my lands in the county of Halifax North Carolina but and upon this special trust and confidence that they will receive the rent issues and profits thereof and pay the same to the FREDERICK LAFAYETTE son of the said MARY when he shall have attained age and to his heirs forever. FOURTH I give and bequeath to the same trustees and their heirs forever all my lands in Northampton, except as before devised, all my lands in Chatham, and all of my western lands, but upon the trust and confidence that they will receive the rents, issues, and profits thereof and pay the same to the before named HALCOT PRIDE, son of MARY, when he shall have attained full age, and to his heirs forever. From this devise I except the land on which the above mentioned said JAMES BRADLEY now lives and has lived for some years, and which I give to the said seems JAMES BRADLEY during his life with power to dispose of the inheritance thereof in case he should die leaving children, and if he dies without children my will is that the said land that's devised to the said BRADLEY should be the property of the said HALCOT PRIDE and his heirs forever. FIFTH I give and bequeath to the same trustees, and to their heirs forever, two negro women to wit: SILLAH and PATT in trust that they will hold the same and their increase to the sole, separate and exclusive use and benefit of the said MARY so as not to be subject in any degree to the control of the said CADWALLADER during the life of the said MARY and to the said to negro women it is my will that my executors pay $16 per annum, in quarterly payments, to each of them during their lives. Page 1 of 2 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, NC, Northampton, Halcot Briggs Pride 1796 SIXTH it is my will that all the Negroes not here in specified specifically devised shall be kept or on Meesh Island in Halifax until FREDERICK LAFAYETTE comes of age in order to raise money to educate the said MARY's children and if there should be any surpluses after completing this purpose, deducting the plantation expenses and paying the money legacies hereby given, my will is that my executors pay the same to the said MARY to her separate use and I further direct that when the said FREDERICK LAFAYETTE shall come of age that then these Negroes will be equally divided between his brother HALCOT PRIDE and himself to whom and to their heirs forever I give the said Negroes. SEVENTH it is my wish, in case the said MARY should die before the said HALCOT PRIDE is of age, that the property left to him by the second clause of this my will, after his mother's, the said MARY's death, should be retained by the said trustees and their heirs and the profits their of laid out in the most advantageous manner and paid the said HALCOT PRIDE when a full age. EIGHTH it is to be understood that I make the above devices and bequests to the said HALCOT PRIDE and FREDERICK LAFAYETTE upon this express condition, that they severally assume, after they attain full age, the surname of PRIDE. NINTH it is my will and desire that ALEXANDER STRACHAN, son of the late LUCY, should have all my lands in or near Petersburg in Virginia and I do hereby give the same to him and his heirs forever. But if the said ALEXANDER should depart this life, without having a child or children living at the time of his death, I give the said lands to the three Sons of MARY JONES to wit: FREDERICK, HALCOT and CADWALLADER to them and their heirs forever to be equally divided between them but it is to be understood that the lands mentioned in this clause are given to the said ALEXANDER STRACHAN upon his this express condition that his father ALEXANDER GLASS STRACHAN shall convey, by effectual and legal conveyance, to the said ALEXANDER STRACHAN within 6 months after the said ALEXANDER STRACHAN and shall have attained full age and all of the slaves, with their increase, which he the said ALEXANDER GLASS STRACHAN received or acquired in the consequence of his intermarriage with the said LUCY, to him the said ALEXANDER STRACHAN and in his heirs forever, free from all encumbrance or control. And in the case this condition shall not be complied with within or by the expiration of the time of 6 months above mentioned then the devise of the said lands to the said FREDERICK, HALCOT and CADWALLADER is to stand good and effectual forever. LASTLY I do appoint the said ALLEN JONES, WILEY JONES, and JAMES BRADLEY executors to this my will with the hope that they will exert themselves to carry out my intentions into effect November 24th 1794. ALCOTT BRIGGS PRIDE Witnesses GEORGE HAYES NATHANIEL EUSTIS jurat June 1796 VAN LEONARD jurat HALCOT B. PRIDE will doc Court 1795 recorded in book b page 81 B. HAYNES, Clerk Page 2 of 2 ** PAGE BREAK **