Edgecombe County, NC - Will of William Nicholson, 1728

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Abstract of the Last Will and Testament of William Nicholson who died 
MAR/APR 1728 in Edgecombe (later Nash) County, North Carolina.

Source: Abstracts of Norfolk County Virginia Wills, 1710-1753, 
published by the Colonial Dames of America, 1922, page 118.

Will dated 24 FEB 1728
Will proved 17 May 1728

......unto my loving son William Nicholson the manor plantation and 
houses whereon I now live together with all houses and lands on western 
or westward side of the holly bush Branche excepting the new brick 
house which I shall hereafter direct and dispose of...after the decease 
of my loving wife Alice,
...... unto my loving son Thomas (Tom) Nicholson all my land on the 
Eastward side of the Holly Bush branch...my gunn called my short gunn.
......unto my sons George and Lemuel Nicholson all my land lying and 
being on the north side of the Gum Swamp Run in Princess Anne Co. to be 
divided in the manner following, that is to say, marking a line of trees 
from a place on the said land called the Cow Ponns unto another place 
called Little Run and that part of the land on the North side of said 
line, be it more or less I give unto my son Lemuel....and 0n the south 
side of said line, left it be more or less I give unto my son 
George...the true intent and meaning of this my last will and testament 
is that neither of said sons George and Lemuel Nicholson shall sell or 
dispose of any part of said land to any out of the name Nicholson and 
likewise that my son William, Thomas and John Nicholson Shall have 
privilege to drive on and off the said land their hoggs.
.....unto my son John Nicholson a Negro named Fortune and my painted 
stock gun.
.....unto my grandson Joshua Nicholson, the son of my William, the first 
child that my Negro girl Kate brings that lives to be twelve months old.
.....unto my daughter Elizabeth my Negro girle called Kate.
.....unto my daughter Anne Butte my Negro girle, Unity.
.....unto my daughter Mary Langley a Negro boy.
.....unto my daughter Abigaill, a Negro girle.
.....unto my daughter Dinah a Negro girle.
.....unto my daughters, Elizabeth, Abigaill and Sarah after the death of 
my wife Alice, the new brick house for all of them to live until they 
are married.
.....wife Alice Nicholson...my executrix...my son William Nicholson my 
executor.
William Nicholson (seal) Witnesses: Thos. Butte, Nath'el Tatum, George 
Sparrow, Peter Lowe.

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