ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2 - Bengamin Jarman, 25 Oct 1830
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BENJAMIN JARMAN WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 2

In the name of God, Amen, this 25th day of October AD, 1830.
I, Bengamin Jarman of Onslow County (NC), cartwheel maker & planter, being in 
a perfect state of bodily health & of sound mind and memory, but of a 
considerable advanced age in life & knowing it is appointed for all men ounce 
to die do make my last will and testament in manner & form following, that is 
to say princepally & first of all, I recommend my soul to the hand of my 
Redeemer & my body to its parent Earth to be buried at the discretion of my 
Extrs. Hereafter named.  And concerning such worldly estate as it has pleased 
God to bless me with in this life, I dispose of in the following manner 
(viz.).
I give and bequeath my wife Esther (once a slave belonging to William Cannan 
of Craven County & from which Cannan I bought the said Esther), to her the 
said Esther's oldest son David (once a slave but now a free man of colour of 
Onslow County), commonly called David Jarman, during the natural life of the 
said Esther and disire that the said David Jarman shall comfortably & 
plentifully support & mentain her the said Esther during her life.  And for 
the purpose of enabling the said David Jarman the better to support & maintain 
the said Esther, his mother, I give & bequeath to the said David Jarman, his 
heirs and assigns my land and the difernt improvements thereon of every kind 
on the west side of Jinkinses (Tueam? Or Treeany?) on which I now live 
containing fifty acres.  I also in like manner and for the purpose aforesaid 
give and bequeath to the said David, his heirs or assigns, one other tract of 
land containing fifty acres in the desart near the Royal Oak, both of which 
tracts of land was granted to me the said Bengamin by pattent which may be 
seen in the proper offices.  Also for the purposes aforesaid, I give to the 
said David Jarman his heirs or assigns, all my stocks of every kind, horses, 
cattle & hogs and my crops standing & growing on the primises already named or 
elsewhere if growing or housed as the case may be also all my plantation 
tools, shop tools, &C. (etc.?) of every kind, house furniture together with 
every other article of farming utensils & house or kitchen furniture not 
already named, I give to the said David Jarman, his heirs or assigns forever.  
It is also my will and desire that the said David take the two children now in 
my possession into his possession that is to say Rebecca, a mulatto girl that 
I the said Benjamin Jarman bought of Joseph Basden & raise & support her the 
said Rebecca to such an age as the law of (NC.) declares free born female 
children free.  Then it further & lastly my free will & disire that the said 
David, his heirs or assigns as the case may be, set the said Rebecca free 
after the term of servitude to him or them is fully accomplished, the said 
Rebecca being born a slave & child of colour.  Also that the said David Jarman 
take into his possession the other child above named a boy child named Ben a 
child of colour & son of Cassey, a slave which slave Cassey I bought also of 
the aforesaid Joseph Basden and that said David Jarman hold in his possession, 
use & service, the said boy child of colour named Ben till he the said Ben 
arrive to the age of twenty five years to enable him the said David Jarman the 
better & more cheerfully thence forward to Emancipate & set free the said boy 
child Ben & defray the expences incident or accidently attending such 
emancipation or setting free the said boy or man Ben & for & in consideration 
of the several gifts divisees or bequests made by me, the said Benjamin Jarmin 
to him the said David Jarman, I strictly enjoin it as his the said David's 
duty and my particular request that he set the said children Rebecca & Ben 
free for & during their lives according to the laws in fource concerning the 
emancipation or setting coloured slave born children free at his the said 
David's expence after the term of their survitude aforesaid is expired, & 
lastly, I the said Bengamin do nominate and appoint my long known & trusty 
friend Edw. Williams, Esqr. And my son the aforesaid David Jarman, the 
executors of this my last will & testament which has been distinctly & 
repeatedly read to me & by me approved & denying every other will or wills by 
me alledged to have ever been made in witness whereof I the said Bengamin 
Jarman do here set my hand & seal & in presence of

James Glenn
James Wallace

(signed his mark) Bengamin Jarman

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, November Term 1837.  Then was the will of 
Benjamin Jarman offered for probate and admitted on the oath of James Glenn 
and David Jarman, one of the Executors therein named qualified in due form of 
law.
Jasper Etheridge, clk