Notes for David Abernethy

Notes for David Abernethy

!William Perry Johnson, Wills of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, 1769-1824, copy in Gaston County, NC Library - 929.3/W/N.C.C., manuscript. [Mr. Johnson's abstract of an unrecorded will]: ABERNATHY, David, Sr. - of Lincoln County - Will dated 24 Aug 1808. Wife Ann. "Having heretofore given unto my Children Joseph Abernathy, Robert Abernathy, Patty Abernathy, David Abernathy, John Abernathy, Turner Abernathy, William Abernathy, Moses Abernathy, Nancy Forney, & Betsey Perkins all the property I intended to give them and which I judged consistent with my Circumstances and considering my son Miles Abernathy having charge of myself and his mother in old age after my own and my wifes decease I do hereby give and bequeath unto my son Miles Abernathy his Heirs and Assigns forever the Plantation on which I live supposed to contain two hundred and twenty Acres or thereabouts joining lines with Turner Abernathy, William Abernathy, Richard Rosdale, and Peter Forneys Lands." Negroes are also bequeathed. Executors, son Moses Abernathy and son-in-law Peter Forney.
Signed by name.
Witnesses: Jno. D. Graham, Saml. Saunders. Probated July 1814.
More About David Abernethy: Will Probated: Jul 1814, Lincoln Co., NC
Will Written: 24 Aug 1808