ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - Mary Cahoon, 19 Jun 1826
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MARY CAHOON WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1

In the name of God amen.  I Mary Cahoon of Onslow County and State of North 
Carolina being of sound & perfect mind and memory blessed by god do this 19th 
day of June in the year of our Lord 1826 do make and publish this my last will 
& testament in manner following.
That is to say First I give & bequeath to my daughter Mary Cahoon one chest, 
one feather bed & stead & furniture.  I give to my daughter Apolis (?) Cahoon 
one feather bed & stead & furniture, one horned pided (?) heifer.  I give to 
my daughter Mary Cahoon above mentioned one no horned heifer.  I give to my 
son Edmund H. Cahoon, one cow & calf.  Also I give to my daughter Nancy Cahoon 
one woollen wheel, one linnen wheel, one (illegible) Tabb, seven sitting, one 
Buffet, one case knives & forks, also I give to my son Morton (or Martin) 
Cahoon, one horse by the name of Bell, one small black chest, one bridle.
It is my desire that the remaining part of my property namely one man named 
Pidgeon, two cows & calves, (illegible) cartwheels, two cart bodies, all of my 
Plantation tools, household & kitchen furniture, all my hogs also my crop as 
it now stands at a credit of six months for the purpose of paying off all my 
just debts my body to be buried in a decent & christian (?) (illegible) then 
the balance of money left to be converted to the proper use of Educating and 
raising my five youngest children namely John Cahoon, Apolis Cahoon, Mary 
Cahoon, Edmund H. Cahoon and Daniel Cahoon.
And I hereby make and ordain Luke Huggins Esqr. Of Onslow County & James Wade 
to be my executors of this my last will & testament.
(signed her mark) Mary Cahoon
In presence of  (no names entered)
Onslow County, Court of Pleas & Quarter sessions May Term 1828.  Then was the 
Execution & publication of the foregoing will duly proved in open court by the 
oath of Abraham Burnap who swore he heard the said Mary Cahoon the testatrix 
acknowledge, publish, & declare the same to be her last will & testament. And 
James Wade at the same time qualified as executor thereto.
Danl. Ambrose, clk.