Craven County, NC - Will of Jessey Rountree, 1777

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North Carolina
Secretary of State Wills, 1663-1790
Will & Inventory of Jesse Rountree

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This transcription made from a photocopy of the original will. I have 
retained all original spelling & punctuation.
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In the Name of God Amen.

I Jessey Rountree of the Province of North Carolina Craven County being in Low 
State of health at present though in Perfect Good Memory Blessed be God for it 
and Calling to Mind the Mortalitity of Man Kind Do Make my Last Will and 
testamont as followeth. First I Desire that all my Lawfull Debts be Paid. 

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I give to beloved Wife one hundred and thirty three Acers of Land With my 
Dwelling house I ___?___ Live in During her Life and then to my Son Jessey 
Rountree With the Remaing Part Contaning four hundred Acers in the hole. 

Item
I Give to my Wife one Bed and furniture, Two Dishes, Two Basons, half Dozen 
Plates, Two Pots, one frying pan, one Linen Whell [sic], one Wollen[ sic] Wheal 
[sic], one Black horse, three Cows and Calves, Two Yews and Lambs During her 
Life and then to be Divided Among all my Children.

Item.
I Give to my Wife one Negro Gearl(?) Namd Hager During her Life or Widow hood 
and then to my Son Jesse and the first Child She Brings and the Next to my 
Daughter Mary and the third to my Daughter Elizabeth.

Item.
I Give to my Son John Rountre one Plantation formming the old Meating house 
Place Containing Two hundred Acers More or Less Begining at Pine on the Side 
of Parkers Marsh Begining at a Bottom at the  ____?____ of the Old Plantation.

Item.
I Give to my Son William Rountre three hundred Acers of Land Joining that of 
John Rountres.

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Give to my son John one Negro Boy Namd Jack after my my Wifes Deease.

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I Give to my son William Rountre one Negro Boy Namd frank after my Wife Deeese.

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I Give to my Son John Rountre Six hundred Acers of Land More or Less Below the 
Mouth of Wortre Branch Runing up the Branch.

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Give to my son William Rountre all my Blacksmith Tools, my half of the Still; 
and all the Rest of my Personal Estate to be Equally Divided Among all my 
Children after my Decease & my Part of the Two Mils to be Left to my three Sons 
John, William, and Jesse and not to be Sold out of the famly; if any one of 
three Refuses to Work and Keep up the Said Mils to be flung out of there Part. 

I Do Constitute and Apoint John Rountre and John frzle to be my Executors of 
this my Last Will and Testament & Signed Sealed this Seventeenth Day of October 
in the first Year of our independence and in the year of our Lord 1777.

witness:                                [signed]  Jesse rountree
Thos. Coleman
Moab Rountree
Edward fitsPatrick  
					

State of North Carolina
Personally appeared before me Richard Caswell Esqr. Governor & Commander in 
Chief of the said state Moab Roundtree a Subscribing Witness to the foregoing 
instrument of Writing And being Sworn Upon the Holy evangelists Declared that 
he saw Jesse oundtree the Testator Sign Seal Publish Pronounce & Declare the 
said Writing to be & Contain his Last Will and Testament that he was at that 
Time to the best of the said Moab Roundtrees Knowledge and belief of Sound and 
Disposing Mind and Memory, that He also saw Thomas Coleman & Edward FitzPatrick 
Sign their names as Concurring Witnesses with him in the Testators presence & 
in the presence of each other. At the same Time John Roundtree & John Frizle 
appeared and Qualified as Executors of the said Will. 

Of the premisses the Secretary is required to take Notice & issue Letters 
Testamentary accordingly. Newbern 21st  Novemr 1777.

                                              [signed]     R. Caswell


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Inventory of Jesse Rountree’s Estate

Craven County North Carolina
December 1777

Note: 	Commas have been added to separate items.

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A True and Perfect Inventory of the Personal Estate of Jesse Roundtree Deceasd 
as Far as has Come to our hands or Knowledge:


To 2 horses, 1 Mare, one yearling Colt
To 23 head of Cattle
To 3 Feather Beds and Furnature, 1 Ditto
To 2 Chests, 1 Trunk, 1 Table
To 1 Case, 15 Bottles, 10 Chears
To 1 Woling Wheal
To 2 Sinning Wheals
To 2 Large Bottles, 1 Ditto Small 
To 2 Junk Bottles
To 1 Large Jug, 1 Small Ditto
To 1 Rifle gun, 1 Smooth Bore gun 
To 1 Looking Glass, 3 Stone Mugs
To 2 Tee pots, ½  a Dozn Sassers,  3 Tee Cups, 2 Drinking Glasses, 1 Glass Tumbler, 
                  Earthin Butter Dot, 2 Shuger Boxes
To 1 Pepper Mill
To 7 Putor Bassons, 4 Dishes, 23 Plates, 1 perinnr(?), 9 Spoons 
To 8 Cas Knives & Forks
To 4 Iron Pots, 1 Iron Kittle, 1 Iron Tee Kittle, 1 Skillet, 1 Iron Bacon
To 2 Frying Pans, 1 Iron Spoon
To 2 Pare of Pot hooks, 1 pot Tramel, 2 Small Iron hooks
To 1 Iron Crain
To 1 pare of Small Stillaids, 1 Slate, 1 pare of Sheep Shears
To 1 pare of Shears Ditto 
To 1 Candlestick, To 1 Fier Tongs
To 1 Box Iron and 3 heators
To 1 Cutting Knife
To 1 Couragng Knife, 1 Draising Knife, 5 Narrow axes, 1 Braud axe
To 4 Weading hoes, 1 Narrow hilling hoe, 1 Grubing hoe, 2 Plow hoes, 1 harow, 1 
             Small Bar Plow, 2 Pare of Iron Trases and hames, 2 Grinding Stones 
To 1 Cart and Wheals With an Iron Back Band 
To 1 Pare of Iron Weagis
To 1 Iron Spice Morter 
To 1 Set of BlackSmith Tools 
To half of a Still 
To 1 Saw Mill, 1 Grice Mill, ½  Each with the Chain and CroBar
To 1 Large Bibble, 1 Small Ditto, 8 Small Ditto 
To 2 Man Sadle, 1 Woman Ditto, 2 Bridles 
To 11 Sider Barrels
To 1 Sider Mill, 1 Tin Funnel 
To 2 Negro Boys, 1 Garl
To 5 Slays, 3 ____?____ els, 
3 Washing Tubs, 5 Pails, 1 Can, 1 Meal Sifter, 1 Search, 4 Trays, 2 Boals
To 1 pare of spoon Moalds
to 9 lumber Casks
to 2 rundlets 
to 1 fifteen gallon Cag
to 1 ring & Staple 
to 1 meal Sifter 
to 1 pare of warping bars and boxes & Slayboards 
to 9 Sack baskets 
to 1 Rusk basket 
to 2 bee hives 
to 18 head of Sheep 
to 11 head of hogs 
to 3 reap hooks (or shooks ?) 
to 2 augers
to 4 Chissels
to 1 gouge, 1 Carpender adds
to a part of a Set of Shoe makers tools 
to 19 dollars & 6 & 8 p. 
to 1 hand saw, 1 razor 
to 1 Square, 2 Crumperces(?) 
to 1 brace bit


                                        John Rountre
                                        John Frissel   [his mark]
                                        John Rountree  [his mark]

Inventory of Jesse Roundtree [sic] Decd. Returned December Court 1777

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Note #1
The names of John "Rountre" and John "Frissel" are written in the same 
handwriting as the inventory, and John Frizzle made his mark of an "X" 
between his first and last names. Below this, John Rountree signed his name, 
clearly in a different handwriting than the inventory and the first time his 
name was written, and spelled differently as well.

Note #2
Jesse Rountree, Sr. was the son of Francis Rountree who arrived in Chowan 
Precinct by the latter 1690s and died there in 1734. Jesse moved into Beaufort 
County by 1755, and he lived in the portion that became Pitt County in 1760. 
He lived in Pitt between 1760 and about 1776, when he sold his Pitt property 
and moved to Craven County, where he died a year later. His wife Rachel still 
lived in Craven in 1779, the last known record of her. His son Jesse Rountree, 
Jr. (1765-1831) served in the North Carolina Continental Line during the 
Revolution, and afterwards, he spent his life in southwestern Pitt County, 
near the Greene County line. He served as sheriff of Pitt for a while, and 
later broke away from the Baptists and was a founding member of the Disciples 
of Christ denomination. Jesse's daughter Mary married John Frizzle, and they 
lived in Pitt near Jesse Jr. during their lives.

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