ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Josiah Cox, 19 Mar 1810
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen:  I, Josiah Cox, of the County of Onslow and State of
North Carolina, being weak in body, but of sound mind and memory; calling to
mind the mortality of my body, do make this my last will and testament in the
following manner and form.

IMPRIMAS:  I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Margaret Cox, five Negroes
(viz.) Reddick, Buck, Prince, Delela & Israel; two horses, one called Dick the
other a young mare called Gin, six cows & calves, young yoke of oxen, two
three-year old steers, riding chair and harness and cart, all my plantation
tools, four sows & pigs, fifteen year old hogs, six yews & lambs, all my
geese, all my household and kitchen furniture (except one feather bed and
furniture), twenty-five bushels wheat, all my corn and fodder, all my pork ,
all my bacon (except three hundred and fifty pounds), to her my beloved wife,
her heirs and assigns forever.

Item:  I give and bequeath to my beloved wife two hundred pounds of seed
cotton, all my flax and flax seeds, all my peas and potato slips.

Item:  I lend unto my wife during her natural life all my cleared land on the
south and east side of Mulberry branch with the privalage of cutting rail
timber and fire wood on any of my lands.  Also to clear ten acres, the said
lands including my dwelling house and out houses, also I lend my wife a Negro
girl Hannah for the term of five years & one named Irma for seven years.

Item:  My will and desire is that all my just debts and funeral charges be
paid out of the moneys I leave my children.

Item:  My will and desire is that my executors rent out my mills for the term
of seven years at the highest bidder, with the privilege of cutting for
repairing said mills and logs for sawing on any part of my lands for the term
of six years.  Said mills and logs for sawing on any part of my lands for the
term of six years, the rent of said mills to be paid annually and go as
hereafter I shall direct.

Item:  My will and desire is that my executors rent out the remainder of my
cleared lands one half to be tended for a year and six or seven acres of land
to be cleared along the line that divides my upper piece of land from the
other heirs.

Item:  My will is that Easther Jayday and five small children stay on the
plantation the present year.

Item:  My will is that my executors sell at six months credit the remainder
part of my horses and stock of all kinds, with one bed, three hundred and
fifty pounds of bacon and the balance of my wheat and cotton.

Item:  My will is that my wife keeps my children the present year clear of
charges (except Debby - she is to be boarded out at school out of my
children's moneys).

Item:  The remainder of my Negroes that is not before given away to be hired
out annually.

Item:  I leave the said Negroes that are not given away with sales of my
property, (my) will (that) Negroes (hires), rents of mills & lands, money
notes and book debts, to be equally divided between all my children as they
severally come of age or marry; if my wife should be in a state of pregnancy
at this time or at the time of my death, said child shall draw an equal share
with rest either real or personal property to them, their heirs & assigns
forever.

Item:  My will is that my lands be rented out until my youngest child comes of
age or marries, and the money equally divided between all my children and at
the expiration of said time, I leave my lands to be equally divided between
all my children male & female to them, their heirs and assigns forever.

Item:  I do hereby constitute and appoint my beloved wife Margaret executrix
and my brother-in-law Lot Ballard and Richard Shackelford executors.

Item:  I do hereby disannul all former wills & bequests by me made, ratifying
this and no other to be my last will and testament whereunto I have set my
hand and fixed my seal this 19th day of March 1810, & the word Hanner
interlined before signed.

					Josiah Cox (seal)

Signed sealed in the presence of
Ann W. Shackelford
Ga. Rowe  (The handwriting of Gavis Rowe proved by James Glenn.)

This codicil made this 23 of January 1811, whereas I have a Negro boy named 
Enoch which is not mentioned in my will that was made in March 19, 1810, my 
desire is that the said Negro be hired out by my executors and the money 
arising to be appropriated as the said money is that is given to my children 
and when there is a division of Negroes among my children, Enoch to be divided 
with the rest and this codicil to be considered as part of my will given under 
my hand and seal the day & date above written.

Josiah Cox (seal)

Signed sealed in presence of:
Ga. Rowe
Ann W. Shackelford
(The handwriting of Gavis Rowe proved by James Glenn.)