Mecklenburg-Union-Burke County NcArchives Wills.....Fulwood, John M. October 11, 1843
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Source: Mecklenburg Co.,nc. Court Records
Written: October 11, 1843
Recorded: November 1844

In the name of God Amen
John M. Fulwood of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, being in a low state of 
health but through the mercy of God of sound and disposing mind and memory, do 
make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in the manner and words 
following
First, I commend my Soul to God, through the mercy of Christ, and my body to 
the ground to be buried at the discretion of my family-the property with which 
it has pleased a kind Bondsman to favour me I approve of as follows.
1st I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth B. the plantation on 
which I now live with all the improvements and appurtenances thereto belonging 
during the term of her continuing my widow or of her natural life, with 
liberty of selling said plantation at any time, with the consent & by the 
advice of my executors, shall have person to make title to said plantation and 
to buy with the price thereof, any other place for the settlement of my family 
which my wife and said executors may think desirable and such plan purchases 
shall be to the use of my wife and family as the place I now live on should 
have been.
Item 2 I will and bequeath to my beloved wife all my stock of horses, cattle, 
hogs and sheep for the use and support of herself and my children during the 
widowhood of my wife.
Item 3 I will and bequeath to my wife Elizabeth all my household and Kitchen 
furniture, Beds and Bedding, Bureaus and cupboard together with my waggon Gear 
and farming tools of every kind during her widowhood out of which she is to 
portion my children, as she may be unable as they come of age or marry, and in 
case of my wife's death, all the above specified property and stock and 
furniture, I will and bequeath to my surviving children to be equally devided 
among them Share and Share alike.
Item 4 I will and bequeath to my wife all my present standing crop and 
provisions on hand, for her years of support and the support of my children
Item 5 I will and bequeath to my wife Elizabeth my negro man Jacob during her 
widowhood and at her death or marriage to be sold and the price to be equally 
divided between my children
Item 6 I will and direct that all my just and lawful debts be paid by my 
executors out of the monies due us and my interest in the store now kept by 
Amos Stevens on 12 Mile Creek.
Item 7 I will and direct that Jackson House have the use of the tract of land 
on which he know lives four years from the 1st of January 1844, which was the 
bargain with him for improving the place. The said tract of land lying on 
Goose Creek.
Item 8 I will and direct that at the expiration of the term for which the said 
House has a claim on my land as above specified lying on Goose Creek my 
executors dispose of said land, as they may think best for the interest of my 
children.
Item 9 I hereby appoint and constitute my trusted friend William D. Howard, 
Amos Stevens executors of this my last Will and Testament, In Testimony, 
whereof I have hereto Set my hand and affixed my seal this 11th day of October 
1843.

Signed, sealed, acknowledged and published in presence of 
J.Williamson
Mortimer D. Huston

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