ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Mary Cahoon, 19 Jun 1826
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen.
I, Mary Cahoon, of Onslow County and State of North Carolina, being of sound & 
perfect mind and memory, blessed be God, do this 19th day of June in the year 
of our Lord 1826, do make and publish this my last will and testament in 
manner following:

That is to say:  first, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Mary Cahoon, one 
chest, one feather bedstead & furniture.  I give to my daughter Apolis Cahoon 
one feather bedstead and furniture, one horned pided heifer.  I give to my 
daughter Mary Cahoon, above-mentioned, one no-horned heifer.  I give to my son 
Edmund H. Cahoon one cow & calf.  Also I give to my daughter Nancy Cahoon one 
woolen wheel, one linen wheel, one pine table, seven setting chairs and 
bowfat, one case knives & forks.  Also, I give to my son Martin Cahoon one 
horse by the name of Ball, one small blach chest, and one bridle.

It is my desire that the remaining part of my property, namely one mare named 
Pidgeon, two cows & calfs, 1 pair cart wheels, two cart bodys, all of my 
plantation tools, household & kitchen furniture, all my hogs, also my crop as 
it now stands, (be sold) at a credit of six months for the purpose of paying 
all of my just debts, my body to be buried in a decent & ordinary manner, then 
the balance of money left to be contributed to the proper use of educating & 
raising my five youngest children, namely John Cahoon, Apolis Cahoon, Mary 
Cahoon, Edmund Cahoon, & Daniel Cahoon.

And I hereby make and ordain Luke Huggins, Esq., of Onslow County & James Wade 
to be my executors of this my last will and testament.

					Mary (her X mark) Cahoon

In presence of…

Onslow County:  Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, May Term 1828.  Thus was 
the execution & publication of the foregoing will duly proved in open court by 
the oath of Abraham Burnap who swore he heard the said Mary Cahoon, the 
Testatrix, acknowledge publish & declare the same to be her last will & 
testament.  And James Wade at the same term qualified as executor thereto.

Dan'l Ambrose, Clerk