BEAUFORT COUNTY, NC - Will - Joanna Downs, 1879.

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 Beaufort County
 Will Book 2, pages 165-167, Beaufort County, NC

                            WILL OF JOANNA DOWNS

 In the name of God Amen

 Know ye that I Joanna Downs of  the County of Beaufort, and State of North
 Carolina, do make  and ordain  this my last will  and Testament, after the
 payment of my just debts, I  give and bequeath to my daughter, Mary Cutler
 one dollar.

 I give and bequeath to my Daughter Susan Downs and my son Britton E. Downs
 all my  land,  House Hold  and kitchen  furniture, Farming  implements and
 Stock of every kind,  to be equally divided  between them to dispose of as
 they may think proper.

 And I appoint Britton E. Downs executor to this my last will and testament
 signed sealed and  published, by  the above named Joanna  Downs as for her
 last will and testament in the presence of us who subscribed our names her
 to and in the presence of said testator and in the presence of each other,
 this the Twentieth of Feby 1879.

 Wm. W. Galloway
 J. H. Butler                           Joanna (x) Downs



 State of North Carolina
 Beaufort County

 A paper  writing purporting to  be the  last Will and  Testament of Joanna
 Downs is exhibited before  me the undersigned Clerk  of the Superior Court
 of Beaufort County, Britton E. Downs the executor therein mentioned and of
 the due execution thereof  by the said Joanna  Downs is proven by the oath
 and examination of J.  H. Butler one of the subscribing witnesses thereto,
 who being duly sworn deposes and  says that he is a subscribing witness to
 the  paper-writing now  shown  him  purporting  to be  the  last  Will and
 Testament of Joanna  Downs that  the said Joanna Downs  in the presence of
 this deponent subscribed her  name at end of  said paper-writing now shown
 as  aforesaid  and  which  bears  date  of  20 th  day  of  February 1879.

 And this deponent further saith that the said Joanna Downs did at the time
 of subscribing  her name  as aforesaid  declare the  said paper-writing so
 subscribed and  exhibited  to the  her last  Will  and Testament  and this
 deponent did thereupon  subscribe his name  at the end of  said Will as an
 attesting witness thereto, and at  the request and in the presence of said
 testator. And  this  deponent further  saith that  at  the time  when said
 testator subscribed her  name to  the said last Will  and Testament and at
 the time  of  Deponent's  subscribing  his  name  as an  attesting witness
 thereto the said Joanna Downs was of sound mind and memory and of full age
 to execute  a  Will and  was  not under  any  restraint to  the Knowledge,
 information or belief of  this deponent. The said paper-writing purporting
 to be  the last Will  and Testament  of Joanna Downs,  deceased is further
 proven by the oath and examination of W. O. Ellis who says that William W.
 Galloway one of the  subscribing witnesses to the  aforesaid Will is dead,
 and it is further proven by the oath and examination of W. O. Ellis and J.
 H. Butler that they are well  acquainted with the hand writing of the said
 William W. Galloway having  often seen him write  and that the name of the
 said William W.  Galloway subscribed  as an attesting  witness to the said
 last Will and Testament is in  the proper hand writing of the said William
 W. Galloway.

 Severally sworn and
 subscribed this the 2nd
 day of Dec. 1898, before me.
 W. O. Ellis
 J. H. Butler

 Geo. W. Guilford
 Clerk Superior Court

 It is therefore considered  and adjudged by the  Court that the said paper
 writing and every  part thereof  is the last Will  and Testament of Joanna
 Downs deceased.

 Let the  said Will together  with the  probate be recorded  and filed This
 December 2, 1898.

 Geo. W. Guilford
 Clerk Superior Court