ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Sally Askew, 4 Mar 1830
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

The following is the nuncupative will of Sally Askew, deemed delivered by her 
on her death bed sickness at her last earthly residance and dwelling house in 
Onslow County (VIZ) herself in conversation with James Glenn & other 
neighbours.  Then present made the following request of the said James Glenn, 
that is to say:
I find my bodily health strength & appetite all leaving me & I shall also go 
and leave you all before long.  I want you to take what I am now in possession 
& owner of it but trifling in quantity & value here is my feather bed and bed 
stead worth but little, my two wheels, my meat & fat together with every other 
article not convenient at present to enumerate.  I do not want the truble of a 
vandue about it but sell it including my hogs, two sows & five sholtes for 
what you can get.  Buy sister Betsey, Rachel & Susan a black frock and 
handkerchief, little Frank or Francis a pair of trousers, as he is bare for 
clothes.  Buy my son Edward a coat & waistcoat like his brother Nathan.  Pay 
Stephen Wallace for his cow I had of him.  Pay my taxes & yourself as far as 
it will go and as my son Edward is bound to you, take Susan my daughter and 
raise her, as she is extremely fond of her brother Ned & he of her.  Nathan, 
their elder brother, can if he choosis come and see them both at once which 
request & were made by the said Sally at & in her dwelling house on Thursday, 
the day before she died being the 4th of March A.D. 1830 at which time and 
place she appeared in every degree to possess her usual understanding & in 
Presence of Nathan Askew.

					Sally (her X mark) (seal)
By James Glenn, nominated

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
Court of Pleas and Quarter Session August 1830}
Then was the above will proven by the oath Nath Askew in open court and James 
Glenn qualified as Executor to the same in due form of law.

Test:  D. W. Sanders, C.S.C.