ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2 - Joshua Foy, 16 Jan 1851
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JOSHUA FOY WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 2


State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
In the name of God, Amen.  I, Joshua Foy, of the state and county aforesaid, 
being of sound mind and memory and knowing the uncertainty of life and the 
certainty of death, hath thought proper to make this my last will and 
testament, revoking all other wills by me maid and devised this my last will 
as follows, viz.
1st I will my sole in the hands of its creatur to be delt with as his tender 
mercy shall direct.
2nd I will my body a decent burial.
3rd My will is that all my just debts be paid if any and if my death should 
take place at any time after my crop is planted that my executor shall proceed 
to have it tended and howsed.
4th I leave my son Enoch Foy sole executor to this my will to sell at public 
or privet sail as he may think best to pay the debts in a maner that will be 
hereafter mentioned.
ITEM I lend unto my son James an equal proportion of my negroes that will be 
hereafter named during his natural life to gow in the following maner, that is 
to gow in the hands of my son Enoch Foy intirely out of the control of my said 
son James and not subject to aney debt that he may create further than the 
hire and income of said negroes which I leave for his maintainance, solely at 
the will and controle of my son Enoch and if my son Enoch shall die before my 
son James, my wish is that the court appoint some good man to take the said 
negroes in hand for my son James giving him, James, the income only and my son 
James shall die without lawful begotten heirs of his body, the said negroes 
shall be equally divided betwixt my son Enoch and Edward W. Foy.
ITEM give to my son Enoch Foy, Edward W. Foy, lending my son James Foy as 
above written the following negroes Nicy and her young child now at her brest 
Jerden, Benn, Shartol and Jim, Eliza and Bertha to be equally divided betwixt 
my three sons as before named James, Enoch and Edward.
ITEM I lend to my daughter Cyreney Elizabeth Foy my negro girl George 
Cassander and my negro boy Henry during her natural life and after her death 
to gow to the lawful heirs of her body if any, if none to be eaqually divided 
betwixt surviving brothers, that is Thomas, Joshua and George Foy.
ITEM I give to my son Thomas Foy, Joshua Foy, George W. Foy all the lands I 
know live on consisting of one hundred and forty acres, all my stocks of 
cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, all my plantation tools, house hold and 
kitchun furniture excepting one bed and furniture for my daughter Cyrene E. 
Foy to be eaqually divid among my three named sons when my said son George W. 
Foy shall arrive at the age of twenty one.
ITEM I leave my son Jesse W. Foy ten dollars.
ITEM I leave Mary Ward fifty dollars.
ITEM I leave my debts to be paid if any in the following maner, that is my 
negroes shall be hired out and pay agreeable to value in proportion of said 
debt that my crop lands and stock shall pay agreeable to value on said debt 
untill they are all paid.
Signed sealed this 16th day of January AD 1851
Wrote and signed by my self
Joshua Foy (seal)

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions March Term 1852
Then was the execution of the foregoing will duly proven by the oaths of 
Joseph Rogers, Edward Foy, Eli W. Sanders and Otway B. Sanders who being duly 
sworn say that the body of said will together with the signature thereto is in 
the proper hand writing of said Joshua Foy, and it is proved by the oaths of 
Edward Foy and Joseph Rogers that said will was found among the valuable 
papers of said Foy - and Enoch Foy qualified as Executor thereof, when it was 
ordered that letters testamentary be granted him.
Jasper Etheridge, clk