Davidson-Rowan County NcArchives Wills.....Ellis, James June 1843
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Source: Davidson Co. Will Book 1 Page 410
Written: June 1843

James Ellis
Will
Davidson Co. N.C


To my cousin Robert Ellis as trustee for my Cousin Mariah McDonald, wife of 
Thales McDonald, all my tract of land lying in Rowan County containing 564 
acres which I purchased of Kilpatrick, with all the negroes on said plantation 
to wit. Old Esther, Little Ben , Alfred, Betsey, Franklin, Het (Easter’s 
daughter) , Caroline, & Lydia ( children of Easter) George Up-ham (Easter’s son 
and his wife Emma and her child Sarah) Old Hampton, Easter, Hampton’s wife & 
their 3 children, to wit: Ned, Osbourn, & Nancy, Henry & Sam Hampton’s children 
David Isom’s son, Brutus & Nell, also all the stock, farming tools, all crops 
now growing ( except the cotton ), all provisions with all the household, the 
future increases of everything on said plantation to be managed by Robert 
Ellis, Trustee. The net proceeds are to be paid to Mariah McDonald annually as 
long as she may live and at her death to be divided among her then living 
children.  I leave in the hands of my executor the sum of $300.00 to be applied 
to the repairing of our family burying ground on the plantation whereon my aunt 
Judith Ellis now lives. He is to procure a decent set of marble tombstones for 
my father, mother & brother Henry for my grave. Should it not take all to 
execute the work above named, the balance is to be kept at interest & the 
interest applied to the repairs of the said graveyard as it may need it. To the 
trustees of the Jersey Settlement Meeting House the sum of $200.00 to help 
complete the new Church now in building. To Mary Ellis, who is I suppose is my 
wife-in law- the sum of $5000.00 which is to be full of all the part which she 
& her child now at her breast are to have. To John A. Bradshaw, son of Austin 
Bradshaw, my gold lever watch. I will that Alexander, Jane, Amanda, children of 
Molatto Eliza, bought of John A. Chaffin by my brother Henry, deceased, & by 
his bequeath to me remain in my estate & that my executor to have full power to 
convey them to a free state in order to set them at liberty so that they, 
Alexander, & Jane Amanda may have their full freedom & when they arrive in a 
free state that the expenses of conveyance & $100.00 to each one of them be 
paid out of my estate. I will that my executor ell my negro woman Eliza, willed 
to me by my brother Henry, deceased, also my tract of land lying below 
Bradshaw’s Mill, adjoining the lands of David Smith & the lands of John L. 
Hargrove, deceased, together with all my personal property of ever description, 
negro slaves excepted, on all my plantation in Davidson Co. on a credit of 12 
months & after paying all my just depts. & the bequest in this will, the 
residue of said sale, together with all my cash which may be on hand & notes & 
accounts be divided equally between the following persons: My cozens Robert 
Ellis,  son of John Ellis, deceased, John W. Ellis, Sarah Ann Elli, Mary Jane 
Ellis, & William Anderson Ellis children of Anderson, deceased. I also give to 
the said Robert Ellis, John W. Ellis, Sarah Ann Ellis, Mary Jane Ellis & 
William Anderson Ellis all my lands in Davidson County, lying continuously on 
Swearing Creek, Potts Creek, known as the Jersey Lands. Also my Negroes in the 
County of Davidson now living on said lands are to be divided equally. I 
empower my executor to sell the interest which I have in the store of Holmes & 
Ellis at the Washington Mine at per cost privately on a credit of 6 months, and 
the proceeds of which to go into my estate & to be divided as above directed, 
also the interest in the notes & accounts or cash to be divided in the same 
way.                             


Executors:
James Wiseman

Witnesses:
W.R.Holt
James Wiseman
Samuel Richards

Recorded Davidson Co. Will Book 1 page 410


Transcribed by
Bob & Linda Ellis    Duluth Ga.


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