ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2 - Buckner Barry, 7 Jul 1851 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Beverly Cole ==================================================================== BUCKNER BARRY WILL State of North Carolina County of Onslow Will Book 2 State of N.C., Onslow County, July 17th 1851 I, B. Barry, being in good mind & memre, I now set down to make this my last will, it being for the good & content of my childring. First of all, I recommend my soul to God and my boddy to be deasently buried by my executors and all of my just debts to be paid = first of all, I give to my son Bryan Barry two hundred dollars out of his note I also give to my son Bazell M. Barry two hundred dollars. I now also give to my son A. Barry two hundred dollars, I also give to my son J. B. Barry three negros named Ally and her two oldist girl children named Caroline and Ann Meriah also two hundred dollars & now I give to my son Claudius Barry, if he is aliving and ever returns to this country again I leave him five negroes named Cain, Wile, Luci, Pleasant & her child Lot (?) & also two hundred dollars & if the said Claudius Barry never returns back any more for the property that I have left him to be divided among my other four boys. Now I leave to my daughter Rachel Young all the negroes that she has in possession & one hundred dollars I now leave to my daughter Athaliah Frazell all the negros that she has in possession. I also lend to her the lands where she now lives after her death to her childring. I now leave to her one hundred dollars all to be paid out of what I shall leave to be sold. I now leave to my grandson, a son of Brynson Barry deceased, ten dollars. I now give to my three grand childring Brynson Bryan, James Bryan, Selah Bryan forty dollars to each of them. Now I leave a negro man by the name of Adam to be hired out ten years if he lives & the moneys to be kept in the hand of my executors on interest untill the ten years is out & then for the moneys to be divided among my own childring if aliving or to there heirs. Now I wish and desire for all of my lands on (illegible) where my daughter Athaliah Frazell lives to be sold and all of my other property such as all my stock, household & kitchin furniture to be sold and equally divided among all my own childring that is aliving at that time. Now I leave Robert White Bazzell M. Barry my executors to this my last will doing away all others wrote heretofore as witness my hand this day & date above written. (signed) B. Barry Sign in present of State of North Carolina} County of Onslow} Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions March Term AD 1852 Then was the execution of the foregoing will duly proven by the oaths of George S. Ward, David E. Sandlin and Benjamin D. Cowell and Robert White who, being duly sworn, say that the body of said will, together with the signature thereto, is in the proper handwriting of said Buckner Barry and it is proved by the oath of said Robert White that said will was found among the valuable papers of said Barry and Bazel M. Barry qualified as Executor thereof, Robert White appearing in open court and renouncing his right to qualify thereto. Jasper Etheridge, clk