Bertie County NcArchives Wills.....Brantley, Edward 1837
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Source: Nc State Archives, Bertie County Records
Written: 1837
Recorded: May 1837

North Carolina State Archives, Bertie County Wills, 1749-1897
CR.010.801.2
Edward Brantley, May 1837
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Source:  NC State Archives, Bertie County Wills, 1749-1897;Book G,p290
Recorded: May term, 1837

Edward Brantley 1837:  
In the name of God Amen.

I, Edward Brantley of the County of Bertie and the State of North Carolina do 
make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form as follows to 
wit:

Item: I give and bequest unto my beloved wife Clarissa Three hundred pounds of 
pork, Six Barrels of Corn, one Sow and pigs, Ten pound coffee, Ten pounds Sugar, 
Six Gallons Molasses and all the property she possessed before I married her, 
Seventy five pounds Flower; 

Item:  I give to my beloved son Augustus Brantley all my Currituck tract of land 
where I now live and one Negroe man Stephen.  I also wish all my stock, one grey 
mare, all my Cattle, Hog, Sheep, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Farming 
Utensils, all to be sold and the Money Equally divided between my wife Clarissa 
and son Augustus Brantley after my just debts is paid; one third to my wife and 
two thirds to my son Augustus Brantley.  

Item: I send? to my daughter Margaret Sorrell my Winton tract of land during her 
life and at her death to be equally divided between her children.

Item: I give to my friend Charlton Rogers Fifteen Dollars at my death.

Item:  I give to my step daughter Mary Cail Ten Dollars in Money at my death.

I also bequeath my Body to the dust from whence it came and my soul to that God 
that gave it.

In witness whereof I hear set my hand and affixed my seal in the ?sance of 
																				   
His 
Witness						Edward   (X)   Brantley 
 								   Mark
                 						 and Seal                                                    
                                                        
Mich. J Wilder  							                                                             
              
Cullen(X)Askew

I wish Josiah Holley, Edward Hardy and William A. Rarce?(Pierce?) To be 
Executors to my last will and testament.



State of N. Carolina
Bertie County Court, May Term 1837

This last will and testament of Edward Brantley decd was proved in after court 
by the oath of Michael J. Wilder one of the ? witnesses ? and ordered to be 
recorded at the same time William N. Pierce, one of the Executors therein named 
qualified as such.

		Jos ??? (writing is illegible)





Additional Comments:
On May 10, 1832, Edward Brantley and Clarissa Cole (Cale)were married in Bertie 
County, NC.  It seems that Clarissa stayed in Bertie Co as she is found on the 
census there in 1850: Claresy Brantly,55, living with James Cale, 16, and 
Harriet Cale, 10. 

In 1860, James Cale was living in Washington County, TX working for the Hunt 
family as the overseer of their plantation. James served as a Private during the 
Civil War with the TX 10th Infantry, losing an arm in the Atlanta Campaign.  He 
returned to Washington Co, TX after the war and married Maggie Hardy.  James 
died in 1888 and Maggie in 1929.  They are buried in Oak Rest Cemetery near Old 
Gay Hill, TX.


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