ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Abraham M. Barrow, Sr., 5 Jul 1799
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen; I, Abraham M. Barrow, Sr., of the State of North 
Carolina and of Onslow County, being very sick and weak of body, but of 
perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God therefore; calling to mind the 
mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, 
do make and ordain this my last will & testament, that is to say principally 
and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that first 
gave it to me and my body I do recommend to the earth to be buried in a 
Christian like manner at the discreation of my executor hereinafter mentioned.  
Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same by 
the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate as it hath pleased 
God to bless me with in this life, I give and devise of & dispose of in the 
following manner,
(VIZ);
ITEM I have already given to my daughter Sarah Olliver & my son Zachariah 
Barrow & son Abraham Barrow in time of life the greatest part of my worldly 
goods & chattels, consisting of land, Negroes & household furniture, too 
tedious to mention, I do also give unto the three before mentioned children 
one shilling to each of them & their heirs forever.
ITEM: I lend to my beloved wife Sarah such part of the land and plantation and 
buildings where I now live as the land of our land prescribed for her.  I also 
give & bequeath to her all money or moneys or property, real or personal, that 
shall or may come to her by being an heir to her father.
ITEM: It is my desire should my executor hereinafter mentioned think it best 
that all my lands should be sold that lays on baregrass percosan and on the 
Chinepine Percosan and on both sides of Ashes Road, excepting one hundred 
acres of piney land adjoining the clame, being part of another survey, three 
hundred acres to be left for the use of my family.
ITEM: I give and bequeath to my son John Barrow the land & plantation whereon 
I now live that is to say all on the east side of a branch called Roaches 
Branch, also fifty acres joining Woodhouse Rhoads; Thos. Avery & Wm. Pollock's 
lands on or near the main road; also, one shotgun & one sorrel mare by the 
name of Fannie to him and his lawful heirs forever; also, lands I have not 
mentioned to be for the use of my family lying on Button Branch & joining 
Roach Branch.
ITEM:  It is my desire that my black horse, my sorrel horse and my colt should 
be sold and the money arising thereby, also the money arising by the land I 
have left to be sold & the money due from John, should go to pay my just debts 
and after paying the same, should any remain to be equally divided amongst my 
young children, my wife reckoned as one of the number.
ITEM:  I leave my Negro wench Sue now in the possession of Nathan Ashey to be 
left for the use of my family & her increase hereafter arising.
ITEM; I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth one Negro girl Nesse, the 
child of Sue now with her mother at Ashey's, to her & heirs forever.
ITEM:  It is my desire that when my children comes of age or marrys, each one 
so applying, may draw their equal part of everything here left for the use of 
the family & also of everything not herein mentioned and lastly, I appoint and 
constitute my true & trusty friends McGains Rowe and Joseph Hadnot my whole & 
sole executors to this my last will & testament as witness my hand & seal this 
the 5th day of July Anno Domino One Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety nine; 
Signed, Sealed, Published and Delivered & pronounced by the Abraham Barrow 
(Sr.) as his last will and testament.

					Abraham M. Barrow (seal)

In the presence of us
David (his X mark) Miles
Abraham (his X mark) Janill
William (his X mark) Screws