528Rice Price

528Rice Price is known mostly from his will,1 which I've transcribed below in full. I've highlighted some key phrases. Unlike typical county record copies, the image below is of 528Rice's original will, so you can see how he actually signed it.

In the Name of God Amen the 27th Day of Septbr 1756 I Rice price of North Carolina of New Hanover County planter. Being Grown Anchent Butt of perfect Mind & Memory: Thanks be Given unto God: Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body: & knowing that itt is apointed for all men once to Die Do make & ordan this my Last will & Testament: that is to say principaly & first of all, I Give & recommend my Soul into the Hands of almighty God that Gave itt. and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in Decent Christian burial att the Desare- ation of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall recive the same again by the might power of God: and as touching such Worldly Estate where with itt hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give Demise & Dispose of the same in the following manor & form —— Imprimis. I give & bequeath to Tomzin my Dearly beloved wife all in my Reall & personill Estate of Lands Goods Debts & moveable Effects & During her Living in the state of widdowood —— and afterwards to go to my three sons in manner following — Item to my son Richard price I give one Negro man Named peter & one Feather Bed with furniture thereunto beloning: and one third part of the plantion I now Live on: that part called the old plantitaon — — —
Item:	To my son James price I give one Negro man Named London & one Negro Wench Named Debroath: & one Feath'red Bead with furniture thereto beloning & one third part of the plantation I now Live on Namly the Westward side where my Dewling[?] Hous now stands — — — —
Item.	To my son Edmond price: I give two Negros one Boy Named Manull & one Negro Wench Named Bess: & one Feather Bead with furniture thereto beloning - & one third part of the plantation I now Live on Namly by the Eastermost part —
and For the true performance of this my Last will Constitute & ordain my Dearly Beloved wife Tomzin & Richard Price my Executors — Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my Last will & Testment in Wittnes wherreof I have hereunto set my Hand & seal the Day & year above written — signed & sealed in the prisance                                             Rice Prce of John I R Rogers    Henry И Harken[?]    Wm Pearse                                               his mark

I've been unable to determine when the will was probated.

His "goods & chattles" were inventoried and appraised on 26 April 1758. An excerpt is below. The full record includes various livestock, axes, a grindstone, carpentry tools, saddles, a canoe, and other items.2

This excerpt from 528Rice's appraisal includes an old negro (worth £10) and 10 old hoes (worth 1 shilling each).2

Sources Cited:

1: North Carolina Secretary of State Wills. The will of Rice Price, New Hanover County, dated 27 September 1756, North Carolina MARS ID 12.96.20.63. North Carolina Digital Collections, <https://www.digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll41/id/9404/rec/1793>, accessed 19 August 2023. This is the original will.

2: New Hanover County, North Carolina. Estate record folders, microfilm for James B. Pigford through Thomas Radcliff, folder for Rice Price, an inventory and appraisal dated 26 April 1758. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9CV-JJ4H?cc=1911121&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQJ8G-MGSP>.