CRAVEN COUNTY, NC - Will - Charles Butler, 1861. ====================================================================== 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: Elizabeth Ross Feb. 1999 ======================================================================== The Last Will & Testament of Charles Butler 1861, Craven Co., NC Mary B. Buck Papers, ECU Manuscript Collection #83 J. Y. Joyner Library, Greenville, NC. In the Name of God Amen - - - - - - I Charles Butler Of the County of Craven and State of N. Carolina Being of Sound disposing Mind and Memory, - do Make and publish this my Last Will and Testament . . in manner and Following That is to say I Loan to my beloved Wife Rebbecca Butler all the money and Notes after Paying off my Just debts. - Also my Stock of Cattle Sheep and Hogs Bees &c. together with the Plantation o which I now live; - Also the Household and Kitchen Furniture, together with all my utencils for Farming and other mechanical Purposes - During her Natural Life or Widdow hood, 2nd Item, I Give and devise to my Oldest son Wm. H. Butler a certain Piece of Parsel of Land Situated in Craven County N. C. on the North Side of Swift Creek. Adjoining the Lands of Scott Spears and James Roach, Beginning at a White Oak Known as the Spears Corner, and Patented by Arthur [Butler] being Fifty Acres more or Lews - Also one other Tract Situate as Above, Begining at the begining Corner of my own Land - Scott Spears and William H. Butler and runs with the said Wm. H. Butlers line to the Creek and down the Creek to Butlers Ford, thence with the Edge of the Creek swamp to my Corner, thence with my line to Calvin Butlers Corner made by myself, - thence with Calvin Butlers to the Mery Branch thence up the Branch to Wm. H. Butlers A Scott Spears line to the begining Containing Fifty Acres more or Less. 3rd Item, I Give and Devise to my son Calvin Butler One Tract or Parsel of Land situate and Lying and being in the County of Craven and State of North Carolina on the North side of Swift Creek begining on the Miery Branch, Wm. H. Butlers Corner and runs with his line to his Corner, thence with his line to a corner in Bryans line thence with Bryans line to Charles C. Butlers Corner thence with Calvin Butlers line made by myself to the Miery Branch thence down the Branch to the begining. Containing Seventy Five Acres be the same more or less, -- 4th Item, I Give and Devise to my youngest son Charles Christipher Butler one Tract or Parcel of Land Situate as above, lying and being on Swift Creek, adjoining the aforesaid Lands as Calvin Butler Corner in Miery Branch, running with and up said branch to Charles Butlers Begining Corner thence with my line to Calvin Butlers Corner 5th Item, I Give and Devise to my Two sons Charles C. Butler and Calvin Butler the Piece or Parsel of land lying in the Creek Swamp adjoing the lands of Wm. H. Butler and others Supposed to be Fifty acres more or Less, Likewise I make Constitute and appoint my son Wm. H. Butler to Be Executor to this my last will and Testament hereby revoking all Former wills by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my Name and affixed my Seal the 4th day of Aug. one thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-one. Signa Charles (his mark) Butler Seal The above written Instrument was subscribed to by the Said Charles Butler in our Presence and acknowledged by Him to Each of us and he at the same time Published and declared the above Instrument so subscribed to be his last will and Testament and we at the _____ [illeg. word] Request and in his Presence have signed our Names as witnesses Hereunto Signers Levi P. Wayne Jackson Clark