CHOWAN COUNTY, NC - WILL - Edward Smithwick. ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Goetz Dec. 1998 ======================================================================== Will of John Smithwick (abstract) June 18, 1761 John (X) Smithwick (A/35) June 18, 1761 no probate date Son William Smithwick - 200 acres on the north side of the Roanoke River adj. Possom Hill Creek, Charlton's Creek and the swamp, but if he dies without heirs it shall revert to my daughter Martha Smithwick. Daughter Martha Smithwick - 75 acres adj. Charlton Creek and William Smithwick, but if she dies without heirs it shall revert to my son William. Son Luke Smithwick - 265 acres on the north side of the Great Swamp adj. Charlton Creek, but if he dies without heirs it shall revert to my son Joel Smithwick. Son Joel Smithwick - my mansion plantation containing 265 acres adj. Opossum Hill, William Smithwick, William Bentilee and my line. Grandson John Sutton- 70 acres adj. the meadow and Charlton Creek, but if he dies without heirs it shall revert to the next surviving heir of his mother, but if she leaves none it shall revert to my son Luke. Daughters Sarah, Mary and Hannah - ones hilling each. Loving wife Sarah Smithwick - all my personal estate for her lifetime with reversion to Martha Smithwick, Luke Smithwick and Joel Smithwick. Ex. son William Smithwick, Edward Edmonson Smithwick,Jesse Gardner, and John Ward Wit. Thomas Howard, Kitrain (X) Howard, Cloannah (X) Duggan (Note LG: This will is identical to the one files in Book E, page 33, and probated at November Court, 1797) (Note LG: John Smithwick the son of Edward Smithwick was born in 1685 in Shaftesbury Precinct and made hiswill on June 18, 1761. The excerpts from his will were in a compilation of Bertie Co. wills available in the NCState Library, so apparently this will was probated in Bertie. His children are from wife Sarah who is believed to be aSpeller, but this has not been proven. He is also believed to have been married to Sarah Moore the former wife ofJohn Dunston Hyman.)