MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NC - WILLS - John Steele - 1843
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JOHN STEELE WILL

In the name of God Amen.

It being appointed for all men to die and the laws of nature being 
immutable, it follows that having been born, I must die and yield 
my Spirit to Him that gave it.

As to my worldly effects, I now proceed to distribute them and 
make and ordain this my last will and testament revoking all 
others.  Viz. 

I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Ann, six negroes Tam, 
Riah, Chaney, Frank, Mary and Lane.

To my daughter Eliza Jane seven negroes Will, John, Grace, 
Manah, Sam, Alexander and Nancy.

To my daughter Patience Carolina, five negroes Newman, Hall, 
Gilly, Hannah and Cuffy.

To my son Richard Thomas Stelle, six negroes Ivey, Washington, 
Whit and child, Mary, Martha, Mingo.

To my son Robert J. Steele, six negroes Duncan, Bill, Selvey and 
child, Fanny and Edmund.

I give and bequeath to my three daughters Mary Ann, Eliza Jane 
and Patience Caroline all the lands belonging to me that are 
connected and attached to the lands on which I reside to be 
equally divided between them, also my Factory Stocks to be 
equally divided between them (my daughters) and all the money 
on hand at my death, if it should not exceed three thousand 
dollars, if it should the balance to be equally divided between all 
my children.

The profits of the gold mines and valuable minerals on all the 
lands to be equally divided between all my children.

I give to each of the balance of my children an amount of the kind 
of property heretofore and apart from what is given by this 
instrument to my daughter Mary Ann equal to that which she has 
received and there after paying my friends and debtors all that my 
be due them, divide the stock crop equally between all my 
children except the Smiths and Carpenter tools, let them remain 
on the plantation where they are.

My will and desire is that those of my children that are married at 
the time of my death have their portions allotted as soon as 
convenient thereafter and so on and the rest as they may marry or 
choose to have their part allotted, and that the unmarried portion 
remain together and have their several portions in common until 
my Executors think proper to distribute or the children desire it to 
be done.

I constitute and appoint my brothers Robert J. Steele, my nephews 
Robert L. Steele, Robert L. Ledbetter and Presley N. Stanback 
Executors to this my last will and testament in witness whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand and seal.  Signed in presence of us 
October 24, 1843

E. Mcallum
Martin Rush                         John Steele

Montgomery County Court January Session 1844 the foregoing 
will was provided in open court by the oath of Martin Rush one of 
the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
P.M. Wooley, Clerk