Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Kitching, Booz 1772
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Written: 1772

	Kitching, Booz, 8 June 1767, Nov Ct 1772; Booz Kitching in sickness 
weak and low in flesh like to die yet in perfect sence Thanks be to God as 
for my body I resign to the earth and sprit to God that gave it.  I give unto 
my well beloved wife one feather bead, six pieces of puter, one pot, a sorrel 
horse and side saddle and briddle, four cows and calves, and I lend her one 
Negro woman named Cate for her use during her widowhood; to my well beloved 
daughter, Leucresy Hudnall six head of groan cattle; to my daughter, Leurany 
one Negro garl Cate (philice) and one feather bed and furniture; to my well 
beloved son William Kitching a tract of land being 100 acres being part of 
Cain’s patten beginning at a pine in the (sopper pond) so running along a 
line of marked trees to Deep Creek to a gum a corner tree then down the creek 
to the mouth of the Cabbin Branch then up the branch to a hickory and then up 
the road to a hickory a corner tree and from thence to the first station; to 
my well beloved son Booz Kitching the plantation whereon I now live being 160 
acres and also a sider still and also a Negro woman named Cate; to my well 
beloved daughter Christian Kitching one Negro garl named Cloc and also a 
feather bed and furniture; to my well beloved son Larrance Kitching one Negro 
garl named Hannah and also ten head of groan cattle; to my well beloved 
grandchild Mourning Hudnall 13 pounds six shillings & eight pence; the rest 
of my estate after the (during) of my wifes widowhood to be equally divided 
among my three sons and three daughters and also my grandchild; I appoint   
my wife and my son Booz to be my executors; signed Booz Kitching, wit Thomas 
Joyner, Benjamin Batts, Mary Joyner.  NOTE: File contained two depositions, 
one dated 20 Sep 1772 by Robert Hudnall and another by Amos Hudnall and 
Lurena Kitchin stating that Booz had given a Negro boy slave named Buck about 
3 years old to his son, Jethro Kitching as a gift.  Appears that slave was to 
be given as part of Jethro’s inheritance but not mentioned in will.  
Abstracted 8-24-04, NCA file CR.037.801.17, CTC.


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