ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Thomas Dulany, 20 Apr 1813 ============================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the North Carolina USGenWeb Archives by: Beverly Cole ============================================================================ Record of Wills, Book A 1800-1825 Onslow County, North Carolina In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Dulany, citizen of the county of Onslow & State of North Carolina, do make and constitute this my last will & testament, revoking all other wills heretofore by me made. As to my worldly substance which God hath been pleased to bless me with, I desire it may dispose of in the manner & form following. Item: My will is that my debts be collected and all the just demands against me be satisfied and paid. Item: I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Elizabeth Smith a Negro woman named Isabel & her increase to her own proper use, to dispose of by will or otherwise hire them out year by year in that manner as she may think proper. Or to sell them if she sees cause so to do. In like manner, to do with the rest of the property given her, also that part of my estate which I shall after mention, that is to say a child's part with her three children by Barber both real & personal as hereafter directed & division made. Item: I give & bequeath unto my son Daniel M. Dulany all of that tract or parcel of land whereon he now livith, lying and being in the county & state aforesaid on the south side of the north east of New River, agreeable to deed given unto me by Christopher Dudley, Esq., for the said land with all the privileges & appurtenances to the same belonging. I also give him my Negro man Luke and boy Hercules, ratifying all and singular what property hath been given him here before. Item: I do hereby ratify and confirm all and singular what I gave my well beloved daughter Ann N. Borden at her marriage and since, furthermore I give and bequeath unto her one Negro woman named Anna, boy Anthony and boy George, also one fourth of the property to be divided and fourth of my cattle and sheep not otherwise given. Item: I do hereby ratify and confirm all and singular what I gave to my well beloved daughter Rachel Ward at her marriage and one Negro woman named Finnette (called Bun), with her three children and their increase forever. Also the young sorrel mare, my common dinning table, and one arm chair with one fourth what may be sold and of cattle and sheep. Item: I give unto my son Benjamin F. Dulany the land and plantation whereon I now live, the sound plantation, and land also with all the privileges to the same belonging according to the titles I hold each of them by and three hundred and thirty four acres of land on both sides the great swamp in said county as may appear by the titles & I also give him the house wherein I now live with two best beds & furniture, the house & kitchen utensils, his brother John's gun, horse & wearing apparel, Putima colt, one yoke of oxen, all of the hogs, with carts, ploughs, and all the plantation tools whatever, two stocks of bees, one hand mill, one half of corn, bacon & pork on hand. All the money due me after my debts is paid with one fourth of my cattle & sheep. I give and bequeath to him the following Negroes (to wit) Old Lucy, Harry, Owen, Esther and increase and cape, notwithstanding the above bequest, my desire is though B. F. Dulany be mentioned as executor, he may not be permitted to act nor able to give a right or title until he is twenty one years of age and then if he cares, let him qualify. My will is that the crop now planting should be regulated and divided as above. Item: I give and bequeath unto my two grandsons Thomas D. and John. L. Barber, one Negro boy named Sanders, equally divided between them when Thomas comes to the age of twenty-one years. The boy Sanders to be hired out annually by executors after named for schooling necessaries as may be most needful, for said Thomas & Jno. Barber, if either should decease before they come to the age of twenty-one years, the said Sanders to be entirely the others. I also give each of them a child's part with their mother of the property left to be sold and divided. Item: I give and bequeath unto my granddaughter Helen D. Barber fifty acres of land in the fork of Wallace Creek, I bought of Ben Melton as by patent & deed may appear, also a child's part either her brothers & mother as above. Item: My will further is the land on both sides of Wallace's Creek of mine be sold, also all the turpentine or hand tar kiln. Brilliant (horse?), old riding chair and all my other property (except cattle & sheep) be sold & divided between Elizabeth & children, Daniel, Ann & Rachel. Item: I request that my burial may be with common decency and my body carried & laid by your mother's. Lastly, I hereby constitute and appoint my two sons Dan. M. Dulany and Benjamin F. Dulany executors of this my last will and testament, utterly revoking all other wills heretofore by me made, declaring this to be my last will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, this 20th of April 1813. Thomas Dulany (seal) Signed sealed & declared by Thomas Dulany to be his last will in the presence of us: Brice Fonvielle, Sr. John Griffen Nancy (her X mark) Royals Onslow County: In court of October term 1815. This will of Thomas Dulany was duly proved in open court by the oath of Brice Fonvielle and Daniel M. Dulany, the executors therein named qualified thereto. Attest: Banester Lester, C.S.C.