ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - Ezeriah Hawkins, 24 Jan 1826
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EZERIAH HAWKINS WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1

In the name of God amen.  I, Ezeriah Hawkins, being in perfect health & of 
sound mind & memory calling to mind the mortality of my body, do ordain & 
appoint this my last will & testament.
In the first place, I will my body to the dust to be decently buried at the 
duration of my afternamed Executors & my soul into the hands of Almighty God 
who gave it & as to my worldly goods, I dispose of them in the following 
manner.
I give to my son, Asher Hawkins, all my land lying on East of the salt works 
and running with the road to D---- (?) old field, thence running through the 
old field with the road leading to the meeting house to the head line with the 
house and plantation where I now live, with a path way from the salt works 
landing to (illegible) Island & also one half of (illegible) Island with marsh 
opposite of his land.
I give unto my son Jonathan Hawkins all of my land lying on the west side of 
the road before mentioned also one half of (illegible) Island with the marsh 
opposite of his land if as provided he pays over to my son Bazel Hawkins six 
hundred dollars.  If he doth not see cause to pay the above-mentioned sum of 
six hundred to my son Bazel Hawkins, I leave the land to be equally divided 
between them Bazel Hawkins & Jonathan Hawkins.  It is my will & desire that 
all the remaining part of my property not before mentioned to be sold at six 
months credit by my Executors & the amt. arising from the sale, I leave to be 
equally divided between my three daughters & two grand daughters, Phebe 
Freshwater, Jemima Morris & Catty (or Cathy) Hunt & my two grand daughters 
Elsey & Rosey Eslick, to be equally divided among them with the exception that 
my grand daughters take but one fourth part and with this further exception 
that if my heirs do refuse to give up there several rights to twenty five 
acres of land which I deeded to my son Ezeriah Hawkins now deceased, then in 
that case it is my will & pleasure that if my heirs refuse to make my son 
Asher Hawkins a right to twenty five acres of land where I now live, each one 
refusing so to do shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars to Asher Hawkins to 
be paid to him by my Executor before the delivery of the property out of their 
land.
Lastly, I do ordain & appoint my three sons Asher, Bazel & Jonathan Hawkins 
Executors to this my last will & testament in testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this Jany 24th one thousand eight 
hundred & twenty six.
(signed) Ezeriah Hawkins

Test:  I. M. Provow
          William H. Farr
          B. Hawkins, qualified

State of North Carolina, Onslow County, Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, 
November term 1829.  Then was this will of Ezeriah Hawkins offered for probate 
and the execution thereof duly proved in open court by the oaths of I. M. 
Provow & William H. Farr, the two subscribing witnesses and Bazel Hawkins, one 
of the executors therein named, qualified thereto as Executor agreeable to 

law.
Danl Ambrose, clk