ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - Benjamin Berryman, 25 Jun 1830
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BENJAMIN BERRYMAN WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1

In the name of God Amen.  I, Benjamin Berryman, of the County of Onslow and 
the State of North Carolina, planter, being in bad health, but in perfect and 
sound mind & memory calling to mind the mortality of body and knowing it is 
appointed unto all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and 
testament in manner & form following, that is to say principally and first of 
all, I recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to earth to (be) 
buried in a decent Christian like burial and to what worldly estate it has 
pleased God to bestow on me in this life, I give & dispose of the same in the 
following manner.
(Illegible) my will & desire is that all my just debts and funeral expenses be 
first paid.
First, I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Maryann (?) Berryman one negro 
woman (Beth or Bett ?)
and child.  Secondly, I give my wife Maryann one (bay horse called Hornet ?) 
and one cow & calf, one three year old steer, nine head sheep, all the beds 
and furniture I have in my house, two sows and pigs, one side saddle, one plow 
and geer, one ox, one (weeding hoe ?), and all my household and kitchen 
furniture of every description and I further give my wife Maryann forty 
barrels of good (ground or sound ?) merchantable corn, two thousand pounds of 
pork, two thousand pounds of fodder, thirty pounds of coffee, sixty pounds of 
sugar, two barrels of flour, twelve gallons rum, five gallons of molasses, 
four hundred pounds of seed cotton to her and heirs & assigns forever.  I also 
lend my wife Maryann one negro boy by the name of Bill during her natural life 
and at her death, it is my desire for the negro boy Bill to be sold and the 
money to be equally divided between the heirs of Lott (?) Strange and the 
heirs Polly Simpson to them, their heirs and assigns forever and I lend to my 
wife Maryann during her natural life one negro man David which is now in the 
possession of Master (?) Handcock.  Then to be sold and the money to be 
equally divided between the heirs of Lott Strange and the heirs of Polly 
Simpson to them, their heirs and assigns forever.  And I desire all the rest 
of my negroes not herein named to be sold and the money to be put to the use 
of my debts and all my stock of cattle not herein given.  I desire them to be 
sold and my mare colt and the balance of my hogs to be sold, the money to go 
to the use of my debts.  And the balance of my (illegible) after taken out 
what I have given to my wife, to be sold and the money also to go to the use 
of my debts, all the residue of my property not herein disposed of, I leave it 
to be sold and the money to be put to the use of my debts and after all my 
debt is paid, if there is any money left, I give it to my wife Maryann and two 
sides of  (illegible) and one large side of (illegible) and I do hereby 
appoint Jonas Johnston and my wife Maryann Berryman my whole and sole 
executors of this my last will and testament, denying all others and 
(illegible) this and no other to be my last will and testament.  Witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 25th day of June AD 1830.

(signed his mark) Benj. Berryman

Signed in presence of W. H. (?) Thompson & Saml. Frazel

Onslow County, Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, July Term 1831.
Then was the above will of B. Berryman proved in open court and Jonas Johnston 
qualified as Executor thereto.  A copy.
Test:  D. W. Sanders, clk