ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - John Pierson, 11 Jan 1828
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JOHN PIERSON WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1

In name of God amen.  I, John Pierson of the county of Onslow and State of 
North Carolina being very sick and weak but of perfect mind & memory thanks be 
given unto god calling unto mind the mortality of my body knowing that it is 
appointed for all men once to die do make & ordain this my last will & 
testament that is to say principally & first of all I give & recommend my soul 
unto the hand of Almighty God who gave it & my body I recommend to the earth 
to be buried at the discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the 
general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God 
& (illegible - as to making (?)) such worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased 
God to bless me with in this life I give, divide & dispose of the same in the 
following manner & form.
First, I give & Bequeath unto my wife Nancy Pierson all of the property that 
she had when I married her all the land & negro woman by the name of Edy & 
child by the name of Susanna.  I also give her two dollars cash.  I give & 
bequeath unto my daughter Druzelly Pierson one negro child by the name Micah 
(?) & five dollars cash.  I also give & bequeath unto my children named 
William Pierson, Margaret Pierson, John Pierson Jr. & Aman Pierson all of my 
property lands, horses, cattle & hogs & negroes named Esabelle & child(ren) 
Miriah & Charles & all of my household & kitchen furniture.  I do hereby 
constitute & appoint Benjamin F. Dulany, Esqr, Executor to this my last will & 
testament in witness whereof  I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 11th day 
of January in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight.
(signed) John Pierson

Signed in presence of 
B. J. Pollard
Patyn (?) F. Robison
B. F. Dulany qualified thereto

State of North Carolina, Onslow County, Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 
Feby. Term 1829.  Then was this foregoing will of John Pierson duly proved in 
open court by the oath of Benjamin Pollard, one of the subscribing witnesses 
thereto & B. F. Dulany, the Executor named therein qualified as Executor 
agreeably to law & the same ordered to be recorded.
Danl Ambrose, clk