ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2 - Dale David Riggs, 16 Oct 1837
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DALE DAVID RIGGS WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 2

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
October the 16 day 1837, To all men by these presents that I the late Dale 
David Riggs do give my wife Desire one horse and the choice of one cow and 
calf and the choice of one yoke of oxen and the choice of one sow & pigs and 
seven fatning hogs and enough out of the other hogs to make her meats one year 
and her three children and if she runs in debt, the manager shall take the 
property and sell it for the benefit of the heirs and I do want Thomas Riggs, 
my son, to come and build on my land and take the widow's team and crop, it 
with her and her children for such a part of the crop and if the team be 
dissused, the manager shall take them out of his imploy and return them to the 
widow.  James Hamilton I want to come and build on my land and all the ground 
that he clears up, have all that he makes on it two years and help to keep up 
the fence round the plantation and they shall cutt nor carry no wood nor 
timber of no kind of (ov.?) the land nor (ho-p-poles).
Turpentine, I want to go to pay my debts and if there be any left, I want it 
to go to my wife and children.  Sixty two dollars and thirty cents in cash I 
want to go for the schooling of my two sons Isaac & David.  Eighty dollars in 
notes * want the money when collected divided among my children but 
princepally to my three boy and I want it to go to school them the widow and 
Thos. and Feby my two grown children five dollars a piece out of the notes, 
all the rest of my property to be sold and if one of the children dies, I want 
their share to go the rest of the heirs and if David lives to be twenty one 
years old and has a lawfull heir, the land is (hisern?) and if he dies without 
a lawful heir, the land returns to the rest of the heirs.  I nominate Thomas 
B. Holland & Daniel Ambrose my Executors to this my last will and testament.  
I do (-- out) all others in widness whereof I have hear to set my hand and 
seal this the 16th day October 1837.
(signed) David Riggs

Test:
Joseph (his mark) Avery
James Hamilton

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
Court of Pleas & Quarter (Sessions) November Term 1837
Then was the will of David Riggs offered for probate and admitted on the oaths 
of Joseph Avery and James Hamilton in Jun Court and the widows entered her 
dissent thereto and Thomas B. Holland one of the executors qualified thereto.
Jasper Etheridge, clk