CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NC - WILLS - John Tolar, 19 Nov 1826
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Will of John Tolar 

	Be it known by these present, that I John Tolar, of the County of 
Cumberland, and state of North Carolina, being of sound mind, and perfect 
memory, to make and ordain, this my last will and testament.  That is to say 
as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in 
this life.  I give, demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and 
form.

Item #1	I will and devise that my Executors herein after mentioned or named,
sell all my perishable estate, on a credit of six months, and of the proceeds
of the same, pay all my just debts and funeral expenses.

Item #2	I give and bequeath to my son John Tolar, one Negro girl named Judy,
one hundred and fourteen acres of land, two cows and calves, a horse and one
bed and furniture.  All of which he has received in advance, to him and his
heirs forever.

Item #3	I give and bequeath to my son William Tolar, one Negro girl named
Becca, one hundred acres of land, a cow and calf, one bed and furniture.  All
of which he has already received in advance, to him and his heirs forever.

Item #4	I give and bequeath to my son Isiah Tolar, one Negro girl named Lucy,
one hundred and fifty acres of land, a cow and calf, a bed and furniture.  All
of which he has received in advance, to him and his heirs forever.

Item #5	I give and bequeath to my son Henry Tolar, a Negro woman named Dicy
and her child James, two horses, a cart, one bed and furniture.  All of which
he has received in advance, to him and his heirs forever.

Item #6	I give and bequeath to my son Nedham Tolar, one Negro boy named Hardy,
one hundred acres of land in which he now lives being the land which I bought
from William Tolar, and one cow and calf.  To him and his heirs forever.

Item #7	I give and bequeath to my son Robert Tolar, my Negro boy named
Charles, one hundred acres of land, viz the seventy acre tract in which he now
lives and thirty acres out of my lands next to and adjoining the same, one cow
and calf.  To him and his heirs forever.

Item #8  	I give and bequeath to my daughter Sally Jessop, one Negro girl
named Lotty, a cow and calf, and one bed and furniture.  All of which she has
received in advance, to her and her heirs forever.

Item #9	I give and bequeath to my daughter Nancy Thagard, one Negro girl named
Rachel, two cows and calves, (one bay mare ?), one bed and furniture.  All of
which she has received in advance, to her and her heirs forever.

Item #10	I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann Boon, one Negro girl named
Eliza, one cow and calf, and one bed and furniture.  All of which she has
received in advance, to her and her heirs forever.

Item #11	I give and bequeath to my daughter Kitty Ann Edge, one Negro girl
named Judy, one bed and furniture, which she has already received in advance,
and I further give her a cow and calf to her and her heirs forever.

Item #12	I give and bequeath to Betsy Ann Pope, my motherless helfer yearling
named Cherry, and one bed and furniture commonly ? in the family Betsy Ann’s
bed and furniture, to her and her heirs forever.

Item # 13 	I give and bequeath to my affectionate wife Ann Tolar, for and
during the term of her widowhood, all my cleared land including all my
buildings, with timber sufficient to cultivate the said cleared land and fine
wood, and my Negro woman Mary Ann and her child Saul, with all my stock of
cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, oxen, carts, plantation tools, household and
kitchen furniture (that may be left after the payment of all my debts and
funeral expenses).  This estate of lands, Negros, stock, household and kitchen
furniture, plantation tools are left to my wife during her widowhood, is to be
charged with or subject to the raising and educating of my youngest children;
Joseph Thames Tolar, Semion Tolar, and a child of which my wife Ann Tolar is
non grate.

Item #14	I give and bequeath to my sons Joseph Thames Tolar, Semion Tolar and
the child of which my wife is non grate, to be equally divided between them
all my land amounting to 1200 acres, likewise all that part of my property
left to my wife Ann Tolar during her widowhood at her marriage to be equally
divided among them, meaning Joseph Thames Tolar, Semion Tolar and the child of
which my wife is non grate, and in case of my wife Ann Tolar’s no marrying to
be divided about at her death.  To them and their heirs forever.

Item #15	I make and ordain my worthy friend Jonathan Evans Esquire, Executor
to this my last will and testament and I do hereby revoke, ? and ? all former
wills or clauses of wills and testaments by me heretofore made and I do hereby
publish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament.  In witness whereof
I have hereby set my hand and seal this 19th Nov 1826.

							John Tolar
In the presence of us
John Jackson
Biggers Jackson

I further will and devise that my Executor should if he should think it 
advisable, be at liberty to use a part of the timber of my timbered land, 
either of juniper or pine to aid in the raising and educating of my young 
children; Joseph Thames Tolar, Semion Tolar and the child of which my wife is 
non grate.