Cumberland County NcArchives Wills.....King, Isabella 1849
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Written: 1849

Isabella King, 1849

Fayettte Ville July 24th 1846
My Dear Brother

Daily experience is constantly reminding us of the uncertainty of life and how 
little we can tell what a day may bring forth. Who can say when they start on a 
journey that they will ever return. Duly impressed with this truth should it 
please God that I am not to live to return from the journey I have in 
contemplation. It may be a satisfaction to you & my dear sisters to know my 
wishes respecting the little property I hold. I have that confidence in the 
affection of each one, that I think my wishes simply expressed will be 
considered the same as if const’d in all the formalities of the law.

I would like the family of Negroes left together and would wish you to purchase 
them at a fair valuation, Cinthia & her three children Henry, Sandy & Fanny. You 
will deduct the money advanced for my expenses to the North. Pay both the Dr. 
Robinsons for advice & medicine for myself & servants and discharge all my 
funeral expenses.

I wish a pretty silver cream pot purchased to cost about $10 or 12 mark’d “J K 
to J C K” with the year of my death & given to Isabella Kelly as a token of my 
love & affection, the same amount of money laid out in good table clothes & 
sheets sent to Hugh, which I think will be more useful for him. I wish a black 
calico dress given to Hannah, Cinthia & Fanny, a round jacket & pantaloons to 
suit the season for a Sunday suit for Henry & Sandy.

The balance of the purchase money to be equally divided into 4 parts: for sister 
Jane, sister McLean, Eliza & yourself, but as it is not my wish that the 
purchases should cause you any embarrassment, you are to be allow’d five years 
to pay more than the interest, with the exception of sister Jane’s portion, who 
I wish to receive $10 of the principle with the interest every year to assist in 
clothing her. From sister McLean’s portion you will deduct the monies advanced 
to enable her to accompany me to the North. 

My half of the drawing room carpet with my share of bed bedding & furniture I 
bequeath to my dear Eliza with the (exception of my Lar’d work quilt which I 
wish you to have) my little silver scissors & all my little working matters I 
wish Eliza to have & my cloaths to be divided between my three sisters. Did my 
means equal my affection you all would be richly endowed; the little work box 
that brother Joseph made for me before Isabella McLean was born I wish sister 
Jane to keep for hers & my sake.

Accept my dear brother my fervent prayers that God will bless & preserve you & 
keep you from evil. And grant us thro’ faith in Christ an inheritance in the 
world to come, where, thence will be no more parting on sorrow. With full 
reliance in the perfect atonement that Christ Jesus made for sinners, I hope to 
be ready then and when ever it may please God to call me home.

I remain my dear brother your loving & ever affectionate sister Isabella King


State of North Carolina Cumberland County 
County Curt June Term 1849

Now in open court the within paper writing is propounded for probate as the last 
will and testament of Isabella King & it appears to the court that the same was 
found among the papers of the deceased, Isabella C. & it being given to the 
state justice of the court by the oaths of Isabella Kelly, Hugh O. McLean & 
Edward W. Wilkinson that the hand writing of the said Isabella was generally 
known by the acquaintances & that they believe that the same & every part is in 
the hand writing of the said Isabella. It is considered by the court that the 
same is the last will and testament of Isabella King & sufficient in law. 

Eliza W. King is by the court appointed administratrix with the will annexed of 
the said Isabella. Order’d that she enter into bond in the sum of $2,000 with 
Jane King & Mary Ann McLean as sureties.


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Cumberland County, NC
NC Archives
CR 029.801.28

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