ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - Banister Lester, 26 Dec 1826
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BANISTER LESTER WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1


I Banister Lester this 26th December 1826 dispose of my property in the 
following manner.
I give to my wife negro Bob, three cows and calves, three sows and pigs, her 
choice of my cattle and hogs fifteen hundred pounds of good pork and the lard 
that comes out of it, thirty five barrels corn & my house  (illegible) & one 
thousand pounds of fodder as she has some household and kitchen furniture that 
she can make out with.  I shall then lend her my home plantation including 
Jacks point & bay field & horses and my negro girl Charlotte & my negro girl 
(illegible) & their increase during her life. My negroes not to be moved out 
of the county.
Item  I lend to Polly Johnston during her life my court house lands & my 
negroes Frank & Alease & their increase except Charlotte and my negro girl 
Rachael they not to be carried out of the county.  I leave my negro boy Lias 
to be kept to wait on Andrew Jackson til he is seven years old if he lives so 
long then to be hired out & the money to be applied to the schooling of the 
said Andrew til he is eighteen years old if he lives that long then to be his 
if not to go as I shall hereafter provide.  My negro girl Dinah & her increase 
I also lend to Polly Johnston during her life and after her death all the 
property that I have lent her and her mother to go to the child that said 
Polly is now pregnant with if it lives to that time.  That is what is lent to 
my wife at her death to go to the sd. Child at this time unborn & what is lent 
to Polly at her death to go to it.  If it do not live the property to go as I 
shall hereinafter direct.  One half to go to Andrew Jackson if he is living 
and the other half to go to Elizabeth Ellis children & if Andrew's not living 
at the time above mentioned or dies before eighteen then negro Lias to be kept 
by Polly Johnston during her life & then to go to the children of Elizabeth 
Ellis.  Children that is of the aforesaid unless child is not alive but it is 
for that to have all I give to Polly;  one bed and furniture in the piazer 
room, one horse, two cows & calves & three sows & pigs & fifteen hundred 
weight of good pork & the lard that comes out & thirty five barrels of corn & 
1000 lb of fodder, one plough geer & my wife one plough & geer.  Polly to have 
her choice of horses not disposed of.  I give to Thomas Johnston my bay horse 
& saddle & bridle. He is not to come on my Estate for any thing more as his 
Mother will have all the property that was of the Estate of his father.  I 
direct my Executor to make to Turner Ellis a deed for the land where he lives, 
provided he makes one to any person that may buy the lands (illegible) river 
which I leave to be sold to the best advantage and my gray's point land also & 
the old place at Shail creek also & all the rest of my property not disposed 
of to be sold to pay any debts & what money is due me if it can be so done  
(illegible) my Executor to furnish my wife and Polly for one year such 
necessarys as they are used to out of my Estate & appoint William Mitchell 
Executor to this will & hope he will honor me by serving.

(signed) Banister Lester

State of North Carolina, Onslow County
Court of Please & Quarter Sessions
February term 1828

This day (Monday Feb 4th) Elizabeth Lester appears in aforementioned court & 
defends (?) from the will of Banister Lester her late husband (which was 
admitted to probate at the last term of this court, agreeably to act of 1784 
C.22.  Thereupon it is ordered that writ (illegible) be according to her 
petition Dower filed at this term.
Danl Ambrose, clk