Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Stanton, Ezekiel 1815 ************************************************ 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, 3:56 pm Source: N C Archives Written: 1815 Recorded: 1815 Staton, Ezekial will, will date 25 Feb 1815, proved Nov Ct. 1815, Book E, page 113; wife, Mary Staton, life or widowhood, plantation where I now live, formerly belonging to Benjamin Pippen, half the house of said plantation, the partition in the hall room to be the dividing line, she to have the small rooms she generally stays in both upstairs and below, also 3 negroes, one horse, riding chair, harness, 3 cows and calves, 3 ewes and lambs, furniture, 3 green and 3 yellow Windsor chairs, 6 rush bottom chairs, large iron pot, frying pan, 6 pewter plates, 1 pewter dish, pewter spoons, 2 pewter basins, case of knives and forks, 2 plow hoes, 2 weeding hoes, 1 disc, all her choice, chest, 1 black walnut table, black walnut desk, small Beaufat, all earthenware, corn and bacon, sufficient quantity to support self and family; gr. Chil: Polly and John Howell, chil of Gracie Howell, my dau, negro woman Esther and her chil. When Gr. Son arrives at 21, negro man Davey to be sold and money divided; son, William Staton, 545 acres I purchased of James Ives, $100 in part to pay for a negro girl, I am to pay $125 further for said negro girl and two negroes; son, James, 2 negroes and increase, inlaid black walnut desk, plainest black walnut table, etc; dau. Nancy Whitley, 5 negroes and their increase, negro man, Willis, 2 negro boys Bob and Frank; dau. Annis Long, negro woman, Nan, 4 negroes and their increase; dau. Sabry Hopkins, 5 negroes and their increase; dau. Bytha Jones, 6 negroes and their increase; son, Redding, Staton, 3 plantations purchased of Isaac Hill, James Staton and John Barfield, 5 negores and their increase, horse Seagull and mare purchased from John Smith, etc; son, Rickey, lands, plantation, old place where I formerly lived the Carraway place and the new purchased place, near Jesse Hawkin’s place, head of Branch running into Poplar Branch, 8 negroes and increase, horse, Bull, mare, briddle, saddle, etc; exr. Edward Power, Noah Leggett. No witness mentioned. Abstracts of Wills, Edgecombe County, 1733-1856, Williams and Griffin. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/edgecombe/wills/stanton1911gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb