My
procrastination inclination has set in again and here it is the last
day of week 9 and the theme for this week on 52 Ancestors is Will.
Thanks to Lisa Louise Cooke's blog on 2 Mar 2018 about state
genealogy records I discovered that the State Archives of North
Carolina has posted a new digital collection of Secretary of State
Wills containing wills from 1663 to 1789. I already had some books of
abstracts of those wills, so knew that several of my ancestors' wills
were included there. With this new collection available there should
be a number of wills that I can try to transcribe.
One
of the earlier ones should be Albert Albertson, my 8th
gt-grandfather. I clicked on the link provided and was able to access
the collection. I found Albert's will which was written in 1701 and
probated in 1702. I find it amazing I can look at an image of my
ancestor's will that has survived over 300 years. Below you can see a
copy of the first page of that will. Tomorrow I will try to give my
attempt for transcribing it.
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