Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Proctor, Absolum 1858 ************************************************ 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 21, 2011, 11:06 am Source: N C Archives Written: 1858 Proctor, Absolum will, 1858; NC Archives Edgecombe Co. wills, CR.037.801.25. In the name of God Amen, I Absolum Proctor Sen of the County of Edgecombe being sick and weak but of sound mind memory and understanding– considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof; to the end that I may be the better prepared to leave the world when it shall please my god to call me hence have now (2 words ) what disposition sall be made of any property after my death and after maturely considering the circumstances and condition of all those as my heirs at law or the object of my gratitude or affection in my judgement estate should be distributed I do make publish ordane this to be my last will and testament hereby revoking and making null and void all former last wills and testaments and writing in the nature of last wills testaments by me heretofore maid. And my will is first that after my decease my body shall be decently buried with out ostentation or unnecessary expenses that my funeral charges and just debts shall be paid by my executor hereafter named and as to the of my estate and property with which God has blessed me and which shall not be for the payment of my funeral charges and the expenses in and about the execution of this my will and the administration of my estate I give devise and dispose thereof as follows to wit I give devise dispose to my beloved wife Proctor her lifetime or widowhood all the lands and tenements that I am now posest of(Possibly farming utensils) house hold and kitchen furniture one carte and wheels two bay mares the colt that one in fold excepted two cows and calves six yews and lambs two sows pits and six shotes sixteen hundred pounds of pork or bacon in (proportion) one stall beef, thirty five barrels of corn ten blad stucks all the above property I give to my wife her lifetime or widow hood except forty acres that I give to my son Absolum Proctor to be cut of next to Elza Taylor’s to wit I give and devise to my sun Joshua L. Proctor all the lands on the east side of a large branch one colt one heffer and one sow one feather bead and furniture two yews and lambs one shoult ?? to wit I give and devise to my sun Josiah P. Proctor all the lands on the west side of the Bige Branch except the forty acres I first give one heafer one sow one colt one feather bead and furniture two yews and lambs to wit I give and devise to my daughter Harriet Proctor one hundred and twenty five dollars in cash to be paid (lifetime) or widowhood her mother to wit I give and devise to my daughter Marry Proctor one hundred and twenty five dollars to be paid at the same time as the above money to wit I give and devise to my daughter Elizabeth Proctor one hundred and twenty five dollars cash at the end of her moth death or widow hood also I give to my three daughters one feather bead and furniture each and after all my just debts are paid the balance of money if any arising from the sale equally divided between my seven children my further Is for my negro boys Isaac and Warren to stay with my wife for to sporte the family (saling if they becom un rulley) my executor to sell them I expect Joshua L. Proctor to stay with my wife in 1847 and have one third of all can be mad and I do nominate and appoint my said son John Proctor to be the sole executor of this my last will and testament In testimony whereof I have heare unto set my hand seal in the Of this 2nd day of October 1845. Absolum Proctor (X), wit. Ander A. Calhoon (Absalom Proctor Jr written in but scratched out, then in different pen, what appears to be Theo. Thomas. Will proved Aug .Ct. 1858 by the oath of Theo. Thomas and by oath of John Norfleet and Reddin L. Petway that Ander A. Calhoon is dead; Norfleet and Petway are familiar with writing of said Ander A. Calhoon and swear that the signature was his. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/edgecombe/wills/proctor2629wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb