ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 1 - Elijah Simmons, 10 Dec 1827
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ELIJAH SIMMONS WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 1

In the name of God amen.  I, Elijah Simmons, of the county of Onslow & State 
of North Carolina, Planter, being in a reasonable state of health & of perfect 
mind & memory blessed by god for the same, & calling unto mind the mortality 
of my body and knowing that it is once appointed for all men to die, do make & 
ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of 
all, I give & recommend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God that gave it & 
my body to the earth to be buried in a decent, Christian manner at the 
discretion of my Executors & Executrix, nothing doubting but at the general 
resurrection, I shall receive the same by the mighty hand of God & as to 
making (?) such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with in this 
life, I give, devise & dispose of the same in the following manner & form.
ITEM  1st I give & bequeath unto my beloved wife Adahann Simmons two negro 
girls Hannah & Fanny, two feather bed, steads and furniture, half dozen stool 
chairs, four slag (?) chairs & all my crockery ware, one mahogany table also 
choice of y horses, one yoke of oxen, one hand mill, one grind stone, one 
chair & harness choice of carts, three cows & calves, eight head of sheep, all 
my kitchen furniture, one large trunk & two small ones.  I lend unto my 
beloved wife Adahann Simmons, my house & plantation, all my woodland, bank 
land, one cotton machine, one still, one negro man called Onslow during her 
natural life or widowhood.
ITEM  2nd I give unto my son Henry Simmons one negro girl named & called 
Tiner.
ITEM  3rd I give unto my son Avirett Simmons one negro man named & called 
Prince.
ITEM  4th I give unto Haskel Simmons, son of Brice Simmons, one negro girl 
called Diner.
ITEM  5th I give unto my son Elijah Simmons two negroes Jude & Silas.
ITEM  6th I give unto my son David Simmons two negroes Tony & Leah, one 
feather bed.
ITEM  7th I give unto my daughter Scena Smith youngest son one negro named & 
called Ginna.
ITEM  8th I give unto my daughter A--- (illegible) Tilmon one negro called 
Selah.
ITEM  9th I give unto Elizabeth Rhodes or have given two negroes girls, 
Pleasant & Amy also two cows.
ITEM 10th I give unto my son Ivy Simmons two negroes Anthony & Lena also one 
feather bed & furniture.
ITEM 11th I give unto my son in law William B. Jones one negro girl called 
Juda (?) to him & his heirs forever also all my land lying on the north side 
of Wolf Swamp.
ITEM 12th I give unto my wife Adahann Simmons one loom and my sloup (?) & 
harness also all my wheels & carts also one years provision out of my Estate.
ITEM 13th I give unto my son Elijah Simmons to him & his heirs (?) 
(transcriber note: the remainder of this bequest seems to be missing as the 
next line begins immediately following the word "heirs".)
I nominate & appoint my son Elijah Simmons & my wife Adahann Simmons my sole 
Executors, this my last will & testament hereby making and disannulling all 
other wills by me heretofore made declaring this to be my last will & 
testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 10th day 
December 1827.
(signed) Elijah Simmons

Signed sealed published & declared this to be his last will & testament in the 
presence of us, Test.
John Gornto
Josiah Henderson Junr

State of North Carolina, Onslow County, Court of Please & Quarter sessions, 
November Term 1829, Then was this will of Elijah Simmons duly proved in open 
court by the oath of John Gornto & Josiah Henderson Junr.
Danl Ambrose, clk