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Marriage: Children:
  1. James Jernigan: Birth: ABT 1753 in Bertie County, North Carolina. Death: 1801

  2. Jesse Jernigan: Birth: ABT 1755 in Bertie County, North Carolina. Death: in South Carolina

  3. Faribe Jernigan: Birth: ABT 1757 in Bertie County, North Carolina.

  4. Sarah Jernigan: Birth: ABT 1759 in Bertie County, North Carolina.

  5. Alice Jernigan: Birth: ABT 1761 in Bertie County, North Carolina.

  6. Elizabeth Jernigan: Birth: ABT 1763 in Bertie County, North Carolina.


Notes
a. Note:   In the name of God Amen the day of October 1785 I JESSE JERNIGAN of the County of Bartie being Very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to say principallily and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to beburied in decent burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form Item I give and bequeath my well beloved wife JERUSHA JERNIGAN one balld horse and saddle Item I give and bequeath to my beloved son JAMES JERNIGAN two hundred acres of Land lying on the south side of the Loochy swamp to him and his heirs forever and if he should dye without heir to be devided amongst the rest of my Children. Item I give and bequeath to my beloved Son JESSE JERNIGAN ninty acres of land whereon I now live to him and his heirs forever after my wife death after my Debts is payd all the remainder part of my Estate hoses cattle hogs sheep and household furniture to be devided equally between my Wife JERUSHA JERNIGAN and JAMES JERNIGAN and JESSE JERNIGAN and FARRIBEE JERNIGAN and SARA H JERNIGAN and ALCE JERNIGAN and ELIZABETH CARTER and equal shear with what she has had I likewise constitute and ordain my trusty friends THOMAS BOND and BENJAMIN JERNIGAN and NATHANIEL VEZEY My sole Executors of this my lastwill and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannulall and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies and bequests and Executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand an d seal the day and yearabove written signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the saidJESSE JERNIGAN as his last will and Testament in the presence of us JACOB JERNIGAN LEWIS JERNIGAN JESSE (HIS X MARK)JERNIGAN RACHEL (herXmark) WATTS Bertie County November 1785: proved by JACOB JERNIGAN AND LEWISJERNIGAN. STEVENS GRAY CCC 1035 (page 440) JESSE JERNAGAN Inventory (undated) by Benjamin Jernigan and Nathaniel Vezey DAR PATRIOT INDEX, p. 368. Bishop Sol NC


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