Bertie County NcArchives Wills.....Josiah Stallings May 14 1772
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Source: NC State Archives
Written: May 14 1772


In the name of God Almighty Amen;  I Josiah Stallings of Bertie County, North 
Carolina, being weak and low of body but of  perfect and sound mind make this 
my Last Will and Testament in

manner and form as follows, that is to say, first I give and recommend my Soul 
unto Almighty God who gave it me and my body to be buried in a decent manner at 
the discretion of my executor hereafter named and as to what worldly estate it 
has pleased God to bestow on me I dispose the same as follows:

 

Item:  First, I desire that my just debts and funeral expenses shall be all 
fully paid and satisfied.

 

Item:  I give to my wife Mary Stallings two negroes named Tom & Phillis during 
her life

          likewise the Plantation whereon I live until my son John is twenty 
one years old and one

          third of during her life if she lives single likewise.  I give her 
six cows and calves, one pair

          of five year old steers, one pair of four year old and one pair of 
two year old steers, one

          black mare and colt, six sows and pigs, twenty hogs that will be two 
years old this coming

          winter and ten that will be one year old at the same time, four ewes 
and lambs, one ram 

          and one winter the use of the Brandy Still, this season, like wise 
the use of one of the

          houses, furniture during her life or other wise to be sold likewise 
the use of a young Negro

          wench named Jude during her life.

 

Item:  It is my will that my Plantation lying on the south side of the Beaver 
Dam Swamp

          containing a hundred acres of land on which Zachariah Archer now 
lives together with my

          stills after the use of them for this season to my wife and all the 
items not mentioned above

          likewise the furniture not above mentioned be hers.  The Negros, Tom, 
Phillis & Jude with

          her increase.  After my wife’s death shall be equally divided 
between my daughter Betty

          and my son John Stallings.

 

Item:  I give to my son John Stallings all my lands lying on the North side of 
the Beaver Swamp

          Dam together with all the money arriving from the sales of my lands, 
stills and stocks 

          above mentioned after the deduction of the hundred pounds due for my 
daughter or a 

          husband which he is to be possessed of when he comes to the age of 
twenty one.

 

Item:  It is my will that a house eighteen feet square or a shed and piazza be 
built on the

          plantation which I now live to be paid out of money which I have by 
me and is due to me

          and the remainder of all my estate not mentioned above. I give to my 
son John, he is to be

          possessed of it at twenty one.

 

Item:  As I have given my wife Mary Stallings the use of the Plantation hereon 
I now live with

          the goods and stock as above mentioned.  It is my will that she bring 
up the two children

          which God has given us till they are of age and give them suitable & 
sufficient schooling,

          paying the extraordinary expense out of their portion, viz the money 
which is paid to the

          master.  I also make and appoint Capt. Moses Sumner, James Yearly and 
my wife Mary

          Stallings the Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

 

       In witness whereof the said Josiah Stallings have here unto my hand and 
seal the fourteenth

       Day of May in the year of our Lord, One thousand, Seven hundred and 
Seventy two.

 

                                    Josiah Stallings (His Seal)

 

 



Signed and Sealed in the presences of us:

 

Thomas Standley

Thomas Rhoades

 

(This is the will of Josiah Stallings, the son of Elias Stallings Jr., the son 
of Elias Stallings Sr., the son of Nicholas Stallings Sr.)

 

                                   Transcribed by:

                                   Callie J. Stallings

                                   October 11, 1999

Source:

North Carolina State Archives

Estate Records, Xerox Request

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