Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Purvis, Deroshia Virginia 1901
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Written: 1901
Recorded: 1912

	Purvis, Deroshia Virginia, will date 1 May, 1901, date recorded 24 
July 1912, to my husband, William Robert Lee Purvis, all of my personal estate 
and, during his natural life, the following real estate, one tract adjoining 
the lands of John D. Taylor, the lands of the late Benj. C. Mayo and others 
in township # 3, Edgecombe Co., it being the land devised to me by my aunt, 
the late Nancy Ann Virginia Overton and devised to her by her father, Dawson 
Taylor, containing (blank) acres, also the tract on which we now reside which 
was devised to me by my father, the late Jno. R. Overton, bounded on the 
north by the Philpot land, on the east and south by the lands of Jno. D. 
Overton and on the west by the lands of Jno. R. Purvis, containing (blank) 
acres; another tract lying in Hamilton Township, Martin Co., known as the 
Philpot land adjoining the “next above described tract” also the lands of the 
late L.K. Purvis, Andrew J. Purvis, Jno. D. Overton, Luke Council and others 
containing (blank) acres, it being the land conveyed to me by Alex. H. Smith, 
commissioner and recorded in Martin Co.; also one other tract lying in Pitt 
Co. in the town of Bethel, adjoining the lands of Warren Andrews on the 
south, the Britton lot on the north, it being the tract conveyed by Allen 
Warren, administrator of Edmund Andrews to J.E. Langley by deed dated 13 Apr. 
(1881, conveyed by illegible to Jno. R. ) Langley to W.J. (James) by deed 
dated 16 Apr. 1888 and conveyed by James to Jno. R. Overton and devised to my 
by my father, John R. Overton; also one half interest in another tract in TWP 
3 Edge. Co. adjoining the lands of C.W. Taylor, Mary Whitehurst, David Taylor 
and others, it being the land devised to my mother by her father, Dawson 
Taylor, containing 170 3/4 acres, also all the other lands I may die seized; 
At the death of my husband, the above land to go to my brother, John D. 
Overton during the term of his natural life and then to his heirs; executor, 
husband, the said W.R. Purvis, signed Deroshia V. Purvis, wit. T. Jones 
Taylor, H.L. Purvis.  Will was entered for probate in Pitt Co.  Abstracted 8-
26-03.


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