LINCOLN COUNTY   NC --    WILL OF WILLIAM CLEGHORN

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Will of William Cleghorn of Tryon Co. N.C., Feb 25, 1774

Contributed by Anna L. Popejoy, Wed, 28 May 1997 

Freeholder...
To Lettice Cleghorn me dearly beloved wife, the plantation, tools, 
and house, furniture, and the plantation I now live on, her lifetime
if she sees fit to live on it, three negros during  her lifetime, if 
unmarried, and if married ,after that the three said negros I give 
and bequeath to my three sons William, James, John Cleghorn 
to be divided equally among them, then when  they become of
age
....to my beloved daughters, Rebeckah and Jane Cleghorn
, four hundred acres on the Warriers creek, S.C.
...to my well beloved daughter Mary Cleghorn, two hundred acres on 
Lawsons Fork S.C.
....to my well beloved daughter Lettice Cleghorn, three hundred and
fifty acres on Fishing creek, part in the Indian line
 ... to my well beloved sons William, James, John and John
Cleghorn
...land I now live on ?....two hundred fifty acres on South
Pacolet, to be sold at the expiration of three years after my 
decease,
one half to my well beloved friend  John Scott Junior
....to well beloved daughter Sarah Huddleston, s5 sterling, all
bills, notes,  and debts, I allow to be collected
...wife Lettice and James Hemphill, my well beloved friend, 
exrs..William Cleghorn seal. 

wit: D.Dickey, jurate., Hugh Willson . 

Filed in the Lincoln Co. Wills, N.C. Archives.

Sarah  Huddleston is wife of John  Huddleston , who is the son of 
David Huddleston, 
Huddleston Will  Rutherford Co. N.C.

Daughter Lettice Cleghorn later married John Scott Junior.


 William Cleghorn  is in the Lincoln Co. N.C. area, by the land
deed , Nov 11 1784.

 Lettice Cleghorn, of Rutherford Co. ...to James
Scott,  of  Rutherford Co. ..where as William Cleghorn did in his
lifetime sell to John Huddleston, fifty three acres, part of four
hundred acres..Cleghorn then lived on ...in will of said
William Cleghorn in Lincoln Co.. authorized his exr: Lettice to make
title..said John Huddleston having sold land to James Scott..fifty 
three acres part of a grant to John McDowell, Nov 6 1764., and 
conveyed to Cleghorn..
Lettice Cleghorn , mark..
Wit: Robert  Millican, Thomas Millican
Land ended up in Lincoln Co. N.C.