WILL OF JAMES SMITH, ANSON CO NC, 1817 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Bennie Lou Hook Altom – Baltom@NovaOne.Net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net WILL OF JAMES SMITH (Jr.) - b. ca 1755 MD – d. 17 Dec 1817 NC Aliases: James Smith,Cripple; James Smith, Little River; James Turner Smith, James Smith, Jr. 16 April 1818 - Anson County NC - Will Book 2, P. 152 "In the name of God, Amen, I, JAMES SMITH, of the County of Anson and State of North Carolina being in a weak habit of body, but sound and dispensing mind and memory, blessed be God, for the same do this fourth day of December in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen make, ordain and publish this and this alone to be my last Will and Testament in the manner and form following: First – I give and bequeath to my loving wife, LUCY SMITH, my four Negroes names ASAY, ANNEY, AMEY, and LITTLE CAESOR, during her natural life and after her decease to be the property of her child that she is pregnant with. Be it understood that if my wife should not have a living heir by me, the Testator, my will and desire is that the above mentioned Negroes named ASAY, ANNEY, AMEY, and LITTLE CAESOR, shall be the property of my two sons, JAMES N. SMITH and CHARLES A. SMITH living in Murry [Maury] County Tennessee. My will and desire also is that my Negroes above mentioned shall not be sold or dispensed of in any way but shall remain in the possession of my said wife during her natural life as above mentioned. Second – My will and desire also is that my stock of horses shall be sold and the money arising from said sale shall go to the payment of all my just debts together with my pension money which is now due me from the public. Lastly – This heretofore specified declare to be my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all other wills by me heretofore made declaring this and no other to be my last Will and Testament in witness hereto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. I do hereby nominate and appoint my wife LUCY SMITH and my son, JAMES N. SMITH, Executors of this my last Testament. Signed: James Smith; Wit: Sam'l McCullock, Polly Cooke. [Will duly proven in open court by oath of Samuel McCullock at April Session 1818.] [Additional information on James Smith, Jr. may be found in the Memoirs of James N. Smith, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin; memoirs also available at Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, TX, and University of Texas at Arlington Library; also see Elise Greenup Jourdan's Early Families of Southern Maryland, Vols. VII and VIII (1998-99).] Please visit the following Websites – www.dren.com/connect/sgtsmith, www.dren.com/connect/kerenhappuch, and www.dren.com/connect/benniealtom.