ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - Phinehas Rouse, 2 Nov 1833
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PHINEHAS ROUSE WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1

In the name of God, Amen.
I, Phinehas Rouse of the State of North Carolina & County of Onslow, being 
weak in body but of sound mind & memory doth make this my last will and 
testament.
I lend to my wife (Fanney?) Rouse during her natural life all of my lands, one 
of my choice horses, three cows & calves of the choice of my stock, two sows 
and pigs, three (saw horses?), all my household and kitchen furniture, my cart 
& geer, twenty barrels of corn, five hundred weight of bacon, thirty 
(illegible) of lard.  I want my stock of sheep to be sold & two (sows?) to be 
bought, my choice plow & geer, two axes, two grub hoes, two weeding hoes, 
fifteen pounds of coffee, twenty pounds of sugar, my best riding saddle Also 
my negro women (Tina?)) & (Jesse?) (Haley or Holly?) I leave to my wife till 
twenty one years old and all of my property that is not before willed away to 
be sold at my death, and all that I leave to my wife at her death to be sold 
and the money to be divided between Ebenizer Rouse & John Rouse, their heirs 
and assigns forever.
This being my last will and testament, Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand 
and seal this the 2nd day of Novr. In the year of our (Lord) one thousand 
eight hundred and thirty three.
(signed his mark) Phinehas Rouse

Signed in the presence of  (us?)
Luke B. Huggins.

I leave my friend Dennis Aman, Executor to my last will and testament.

State of N. Carolina, Onslow County, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Feby 
Term 1836.

Then is the last will and testament of Phenias Rouse proven by the oath of 
Luke B. Huggins, the subscribing witness and Dennis Aman (illegible) with the 
will (annexed?) (illegible).
Clarence Kellum, Hosea Williams, & Robert Aman securities.

(signed) D. W. Sanders, clk