Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Braswell, James 1765 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tommy Colbert clycolbert@aol.com June 20, 2011, 8:12 pm Source: N C Archives Written: 1765 Braswell, James, Edgecombe Co., will date 27 Sept. 1760, date recorded Jan Ct. 1765, “being in good health and of sound mind and memory”; Item- to my son Joseph Braswell one feather bed and furniture which is now in his possession; Item- to my son James Braswell one feather bed and furniture which is now in his possession; Item- to my son Benjamin Braswell one feather bed which is now in his possession; Item- to my daughter Sarah (Cain) one feather bed which is now in her possession; Item- to my daughter Olive Stinson (could be Hinson) one feather bed which is now in her possession; Item- to my son Simon Braswell my plantation and tract of land which I now live on containing 400 acres of land, also all my stock of cattle, hogs, and all my household goods & furniture after his mother’s death; Item- I make my loving son Simon my sole executor, signed James Braswell (mark, possibly J), wit. John Davis (mark), (Nathaniel) Ruffin, appears to be Nathaniel but will proved by Saml. Ruffin. NOTE: IN WILL BOOK (FILM) SARAH CAIN APPEARS TO BE SARAH LAND. Abstracted from copy of original, NC Archives CR.037.801.4, 6- 26-01. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/edgecombe/wills/braswell2594wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb