ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Richard Averitt, 3 Feb 1800
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen.  I Richard Averitt of the County of Onslow & State 
of North Carolina, being very sick and weak but in perfect mind and memory 
Thanks be given unto God, calling unto mind the mortality o my body and 
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die to make & ordain this my 
last will and testament, that is to say Principally & first of all, I give and 
recommend my soul in to the hands of Almighty God that gave it & my body I 
recommend to the Earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the 
discretion of my Executors;
ITEM: I lend to my well beloved wife Rosemond Averett the plantition where I 
now live during her natural life, containing tone hundred acres and at her 
death to return to the two sons of John Averett, Armand and Alfred Averett.
ITEM: I also give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Rosemond Averett on 
Negro named Bob and one Negro Boy James one Negro girl named Hannah to her and 
her heirs forever.
ITEM:  I give unto John Averetts daughter Tillitha Averett one Negro girl 
named Joan to her and her heirs for ever and if should die without an heir, to 
return to Armand and Alfred Averett.
ITEM:  I also give unto Armand and Alfred Averett all of my back lands to be 
equally divided between them.
ITEM:  I also give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Rosemond Averett all 
the rest of my property and she paying all of my just debts and if in case 
Armond and Alfred Averett should die without heir, that the fore willed (Note: 
entered here "wore into caint read" apparently by earlier transcriber) to 
return to Tillitha Averett and if in case none of the heirs of John Averett 
should live, for all forever willed property to return to my mother's 
children.  I do hereby constitute & appoint a& ordain my beloved wife Rosemond 
Averett and Squire John Jones as my Executors to this my last will and 
testament, enterlined in the sixteenth line Rosemond Averett, Febry 3rd 1800.

Richard Averett (seal)

Signed & declared in the presence of us
Test:
Hardy Gregory
Arctas Williams Jr.

Onslow, April Term, 1800
This will of Richard Averett was proved in open court by oath of Arctus 
Williams and Raymond Averett, one of the executors there named qualified 
thereto.
Nath. Loomis, C.S.C.