Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Taylor, Reuben 1821 ************************************************ 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, 4:09 pm Source: N C Archives Written: 1821 Recorded: 1822 Taylor, Reubin, will date 6 Dec. 1821, date recorded Nov. Court, 1822, In the name of God, Amen, 1- lend to my loving wife, Winiford Taylor, during her natural life, all my lands that I am now in possession of in Nash County, also five negros to wit, Bob, Pat, Dred, Jim, Lucy, also 5 feather beds, and furniture, loom, desk cubboard, tables all household and kitchen furniture, one wriding chair and harness, ˝ my stock of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep one barrel of brandy, work steers cart & wheels, the brand still, and all my hogsheads and barrels, 40 barrels of corn and one years supply of fodder, wheat, pork or bacon lard, and $250; to my son William, at my wife’s death, one part of the above loaned tract beginning at my upper corner at mouth of Downings Branch then down Beach Run Swamp to a cross fence then near a south course that crosses fence to the muddy prong then down the muddy prong to the main Beach Run Swamp then down the farious courses of sd. Swamp to my lower line corner joining John F. Bellamy, all the land to the south of the above specified line to my son William; to my son Allen Taylor at my wife’s death the other part of the above loaned land lying to the north of the specified line, with all appurtenances, to my son Reubin Taylor, Jr. my tract of land in Edgecombe County which he is now in possession of known by the David Taylor tract, all the residue of my property to be divided equally between my nine children, to wit, Penelope Pope, Dempsey Taylor, Elizabeth Whitehead, Kinchen Taylor, Polly House, Reubin Taylor, Jr., Jesse Taylor (for his children), William Taylor and Allen Taylor, executors, my sons Dempsey Taylor and William Taylor, wit. Jacob Ing, LittleBerry Pope, proved in open court for Nov. 1822, by Jacob Ing and Little Berry Pope. Edgecombe County Wills, CR.037.801.29, NC State Archives. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/edgecombe/wills/taylor1927gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb