ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - Frederick Foy, 3 Sep 1833
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FREDERICK FOY WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1

In the name of God, Amen.  As it is the lot of all men to die and believing 
the time not far distant when it will be my lot to depart from the living, I 
take the present opportunity to dispose of my worldly goods which it hath 
pleased God to bless me with, by this my last will and testament in the 
following manner, but before I proceed with my worldly goods, I give my soul 
immortal to Jesus my Savior with a hope of life eternal through his name.  I 
leave my conjugal affections to my beloved wife Christian.  I leave my 
parental affections to my children with directions to live soberly, 
righteously, and Godly in this present world using brotherly kindness, one 
toward the other.
1st I give to my beloved wife Christian a portion of my worldly goods as 
follows, that is my negro man Bob and his wife Rose and negro girl Sarah to 
her and her heirs and assigns, also I give her my sorrel horse Bull and my 
year old colt Henry, one saddle and bridle, my --- and h---p, one yoke of 
oxen, cart and wheels, two plows and geer, two axes, two grubbing hoes, two 
weeding hoes, ---- and geers, & one half of the kitchen and ---------- 
furniture, two beds and furniture, two chest bureaus (?) , one mahogany table, 
two toilet tables, and a half-dozen ----- chairs.  I also give her two cows 
and calves, three sows and pigs, eight head of sheep, sixty bushels of corn, 
six stacks of fodder - three of (illegible) and three of (illegible),
ten bushels of peas, two thousand pounds of (Rock ?) and five barrels of salt.  
Also one barrel of flour, one hundred and fifty pounds of sugar (?), seventy 
five pounds of coffee, five pounds of tea, twenty five pounds of lump sugar & 
ten gallons of molasses.
2nd I lend my wife Christian for ----- in land during her life as follows: 
beginning at the mouth of the big ditch on the Higgins branch and running up 
said ditch to the Co---'s ditch runs there onto cleared land thence up the Co--
-'s ditch to the sandy ditch that runs from the old cleared land, thence up 
said sandy ditch to the ledge, thence along the ledge to the middle fence that 
runs from the back of the yard to the swamp, thence then up the fence to the 
road, thence with road a small distance to the new piney woods ditch and with 
said ditch around to the Higgins branch, thence down said branch to the 
beginning including all the buildings with privilege of fire wood and land 
timber on any of my lands.  I also lend her during her widowhood my negro boy 
Shade.
3rd I give to my daughter (Sceny ?) E. Smith, four negroes by name C-py, 
Major, Seley and Rachel and the one seventh part of the ballance of the sales 
of my perishable after my debts are paid to her and her heirs if she die 
leaving no surviving heirs of her body, then her half of the above property is 
--------- half of said negroes return to my surviving children
4th I give to my daughter Eliza Ann Foy four negroes to be drawn from the 
stock of negroes not before mentioned by valuation when she arrives of age or 
marrys, one half of said negroes to return to my surviving children, should 
she die leaving no heirs of her body also one seventh of the sales of my 
perishables after my debts are paid.
5th I give to my four sons by name Edward W. Foy, Frederick Hill Foy, James 
Henry Foy, Christopher Dudley Foy and Frederick Dean(?) Foy all the remainder 
of my property both real and personal to be divided to them by lot as they 
come of age.
6th after my wife's widowhood or death negro Shade to go to my three youngest 
sons, ----- my Executors to sell all my perishable property and pay my just 
debts.
7th I leave two hundred and seventy dollars cash to be paid first to the ------
- of my note in the New Bern bank, that is now due, seventy dollars is ----- 
to the Newbern Bank, one hundred was to General Ward, one hundred my note I 
wish returned with the sale of cotton once  ----- in the Bank which will give 
time for the sale of my whole crop in which time my whole debts can be paid, 
after my crop is all sold that is to be ---- in by fatening my hogs and 
selling them public, then my negroes hired and lands rented. The up lands 
tended every other year and low lands rest every three years and children 
educated if possible with the ------ particular a good english education.
Lastly in order to carry this my last will and testament into execution, I 
authorise and appoint my neighbor and friend Josiah ----- and my son Edward W. 
Foy my lawful executors.  I must here explain Eliza's negroes to be valued by 
an even lot with Mary's.  Signed sealed and acknowledged this 3rd Sept 1833.
(signed) Frederick Foy

In the presence of

Codicil to this will that as my friend Josiah Smith refuses to be my Executor 
that my brother Edward Foy of Jones County performs that duty with my son 
Edward Foy and that my negro boy George be on loan to my wife in the stead of 
Shade, and that my wife have my clock and my son Edward have my watch.  Signed 
and sealed and acknowledge this 11th September 1833.
(signed) Frederick Foy

In the presence of & acknowledge before
Jno. Houston
Edward Howard

State of NC, Onslow County, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, November Term 
1833.  Then was the above will proven by Jno. Houston, one of the witnesses 
and also proves the signing of Edward Howard, a submitting witness thereto.
D. W. Sanders, clk