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This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. by martha Mewborn Marble mmarble@erols.com ========================================================= WILL OF JOHN TULL Original found in Lovit Hines Collection #2, PC 1759.1, Folder - Tull Will, NC Archives, Raleigh, NC NOTE: Everywhere the name PROBERT COLLIER appears, is without question spelled Probert, yet in the deeds it is spelled Robert First page Probert & John Collier Recipts $50.00 No. 4 2nd page Oct. 18, 1822 Received 18th October 1822 of Isaac & Henry Tull Executors of John Tull decsd Twenty five dollars it being in full of a legacy bequeathed to Probert Collier by the said decsd. Signed Probert Collier Craven Metts Received 18th October 1822 of Isaac & Henry Tull Executors of John Tull decsd Twenty five dollars it being in full of a legacy bequeathed to John Collier Son of Thomas Collier by the said decsd. Signed Probert Collier for John Collier Craven Metts The Last Will & Testament of John Tull, dec. State of North Carolina, March 9, 1820 In the name of God amen, I, John Tull, of the County of Lenoir and State aforesaid, knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following Item 1st, I lend to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Tull, four negroes to wit: Tony, Leah, James and Phillis and one Feather Bed and Furniture during her natural life and my will and desire is that my wife live with either of my three children which ever she prefers living with and the above named Negroes along with her in order to work for the support and maintenance of her as long as she lives free of any charge. After her decease, I give the above named Negroes, bed and furniture to my three children, Elizabeth Graham, Isaac & Henry Tull, to be equally divided amongst them to each of them their heirs an assigns forever. Item 2nd, I give, bequeath and devise to my well beloved daughter Elizabeth Graham , wife of Chancy Graham, my plantation lying on the south side of the Yadkin which land I purchased of William Croom and in her possession and following Negroes to wit, Moll, Simon, Ester, Ben, Frank, Tuper ?, Gabe, Judah, Rachel, Sam, Lewis, Dennis, Tomy & Lige and their Increase to her, her heirs and assigns forever. Item 3rd, I give, bequeath and devise to my well beloved son Isaac Tull the following Negroes to Wit, Sam, Bob, Daniel, George, Phebe, Rose, Tommy, Jesse, Dill, Silas, Amy & their Increase to him his heirs and assigns forever. Item 4th, I Leave to my beloved daughter-in-law Mary Tull, my Dwelling House and other out houses together with as much of my plantation adjoining as my Executors may deed sufficient for her farm, also the following Negroes to wit, Ephraim, Junior, & Raif during her Natural life or widowhood, after her decease or marriage the above house lands and Negroes Ephrain, Junior & Raif and their Increase I give to her Daughter Sally Eliza Tull. I give and bequeath to Mary Tull Two Feather Beds and Furniture, one horse called Snap, two Mules, three Cows and calves, three sows and pigs, Fifteen dry hogs, one bee hive, one years provision, half a dozen chairs, one table, one pair of and drons, two plows, two pair of trams, two axles, two weeding hoes, two Iron pots, one Grubbin hoe and one pair of Iron wedges, one case of Knives and forks to her, her heirs and assigns forever. Item 5, I give bequeath and devise to my well beloved Grand Daughter Sally Eliza Tull the plantation I now live on, containing about one thousand acres also the following Negroes to wit, London, Doll, Little Elleck, Kitty, Margaret, Needham, Richard, Susan and John, they and their Increase and Six Hundred dollars to be put on interest and to be educated out of the Income of her property and the lands and Negroes to be rented and hired out until she marries or arrives at legal age. Item 6th, I give and bequeath to John and Probert Collier, my Grandsons, Twenty five dollars each. Item 7th, I give and bequeath to my three children Elizabeth Graham, Isaac & Henry Tull, the whole of my property not herein before given away or intended to be given to be equally divided amongst them their heirs and assigns forever. Item 8th, I will that if she the said Sally Eliza Tull dies before she marries or has a lawful begotten heir the whole of the property given to her to be equally divided amongst my three children, Elizabeth Graham, Isaac & Henry Tull, to them, their heirs and assigns forever. Lastly I nominate, constitute and appoint my sons Isaac and Henry Tull Executors to this my Last Will and Testament, Hereby revoking all former Wills by me made, In Witness I hereunto set my hand and Seal this Ninth of March, one thousand eight Hundred and Twenty. Signed, Sealed and published by the Testator to be and contain his Last Will and Testament, in presence of: Thos. Campbell Geo. P. Lovick Lewis C. Desmond (Signed) John Tull State of N.C. Lenoir County, October Court 1820 Then was the foregoing last Will and Testament of John Tull, Sen'r, exhibited into Court and proved by the oath of Lewis C. Desmond one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. At the same time Isaac and Henry Tull, the executors, therein named, appeared and qualified. Therefore letters testamentary issue accordingly. C.Westbrook, Clerk I do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the last Will and Testament of John Tull, deceased, given undr my hand at Kinston, the 18th October, 1820. C. Westbrook, Clerk