• General Notes

  Peter Efland's Will Names John Noe's wife, Catharena Efland Noe.
  NOTE: A John Elfand b 1762 d 1844 is buried in Stoner's Cemetery
  
                    PETER EFLAND'S WILL 4 January 1793
  
  In the name of God Amen I Peter EFLAND of the County of Orange in the
  Sate of North Carolina, being weak in body and under _____anding do
  make this my Last will and Testament  First of all I recomend my Soal
  into the hands of Almighty God that gave it to me hopeing through the
  merits of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ to receive Full pardon for
  all my sins, and as for my Body I Commit it to the Earth to be
  Decently buried at the descretion of my Executors herein after
  mentioned and as for what worly Goods it hath pleased God to bestow on
  me  I give devise and dispose of in the following manner and form
  
  Item   I give and bequeath to Catharena EFLAND my Dearly beloved Wife
  Twenty five pounds One Cove One bed bed stead and Furniture my Will
  and Desire is that it be the bed that we Lie on One Large skillet One
  Iron pot Rack allso What She pleases to Take out of Orchard and from
  the Cows and out of the garden, and further is is my Will and Desire
  that she shall have all that she Brought with her to me , and it is
  allso my Will and Desire that she keep all that I have given her
  Dureing her Natural Life and to Dispose of them at her Deceas as she
  thinks Proper, and Further my will and Desire is that What Ever is
  Laid in for our years provision and Cloathing be my Wifes and that
  None of it be Taken from her
  
  Item I give to my son David EFLAND Five Shillings Sterling it being
  all that Ever I intend he shall have of my Estate.
  
  Item I give and Beqieath to my Son John EFLAND Catharena NOE Mary GIBS
  Elezabeth HANIE Sarah GRAVES and Philis SHARP an Equal Shear Each of
  them of all that part of my Estate which is not allready given
  
  Item I do hereby Appoint my Friends John ALLBRIGHT and Obed GREEN my
  hole and _________ Executors of this my Last Will and Testament hereby
  Revoakeing all Other wills by me here to fore made and do acknowledge
  this and this Only to be my Last will and Testament in Witness Where
  of I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the 4 Day of January 1793
  
  Signed Sealed acknowledged
  and Pronounced by me to be                    his
  my Last will and Testament              Peter  x  Efland  Seal
  In the presence of                            mark
  John BULLOCK  ______
  James HOLMES
  

Details of Peter's family with Catherine "Catey" Pickard

Details of Peter's family