Johnston County, NC - Will & Estate Records

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Solomon Hinton Will
Johnston County, NC
October 24, 1778

Transcribed by Carol Norville Berning
berningc@worldnet.att.net

In the Name of God Amen.  Solomon Hinton of the County of Johnston and State of 
North Carolina Planter being very sick and weak in body but of Perfect mind and 
memory.  Thanks be given unto God.  Calling unto mind the mortality of my body 
and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this 
my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and 
renounce my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend 
to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors 
nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again my 
the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith pleased God 
to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following 
manner and form.

Item:  I lend unto my loving wife Sarah Hinton one negro girl named Philis during her 
widowhood and at her death or marriage my desire is the said Negro girl and her 
increase shall be equally divided between my two children, Also I give unto her one 
work horse and one mare, Bridle and side saddle and my stock of cattle and four cows 
and pigs and fifteen head of two year old hogs and thirteen head of sheep and one 
feather bed, bed stead and furniture and all my pewter and one iron pot.

Item:  I give unto my loving daughter Eda Hinton one negro woman named Mall and one 
negro boy named Scotland.

Item:  I give to my loving son Willis Hinton my land plantation (?) and tenements 
that I now live on and one hundred and fifty acres of land entered and surveyed 
adjoining my plantation lands and one negro woman named Chlo and one negro boy named 
Abram and one feather bed, bed stead and furniture.

Item:  I leave all the remainder of personal estate to be sold at the discretion of 
my executors and to be equally divided amongst my wife and children.

Item:  I likewise appoint my brothers Malichi Hinton and William Hinton executors of 
this my last will and testament, and I do hereby disalow revoke and disavow all and 
every other former testaments, wills, legacies, bequest and  executors by me in any 
wise before me named willed and bequeathed satisfying this and no other to be my last 
will and testament.  In witness whereof I have herein to set my hand and seal this 
24th day of Oct in the year of our Lord 1778.  


                                          Solomon Hinton (Seal)
                                             (His Mark  x)

Jesse Johnson
Isaac Hinton
Wm Hinton

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