Duplin County, NC - Will & Estate Records

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North Carolina 
Superior Court          Duplin County
                        before R. C. Broadhurst, cfc

In the matter of the last will and                      Covenant
testament of William Stroud deceased

A paper writing, proporting to the last will and testament of William Stroud deceased 
and which is words and figures following, to wit. a copy of which is hereto attached 
marked A, is provided for probate by the executor therein named and provided in 
Covenant form, wherefore as Thomas Stroud as kin-at-law and next-of-kin of the said 
William Stroud came into court with a covean to the probate thereof and say that the 
same is not the last will and testament of the said William Stroud for the various 
(unknown word) and said that a certain paper writing exhibited by him of date 30 day 
of September 1882 is his last will and testament, a  copy of which is as follows.

(copy) a copy of which hereto attached marked B.  And therefore the coveat? depicts the 
following issues to be made up and submitted to the jury, to wit.

is the said paper writing or any part there of date 18 day of March 1854, if so which 
part, the last will and testament of the said William Stroud?

Is the said paper writing or any part therefore, of date 30 day of September 1884, and 
is so which part, the last will and testament of the said William Stroud?

And on motions , it is ordered that a notice be issued against William Stroud & 
Winnifred Stroud & Elizabeth Stroud the kin-at law and next -of -kin and the persons 
intended under said paper writings to appear at the next time of Superior Court of 
Duplin County to be held tho? (at Wednesday of August 1890 to see proceedings in this 
cause, and to make themselves parties to said issues, if they shall think proper.

                                          R. C. Broadhurst		

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