ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Reuben Grant, 10 Feb 1791
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen:  I, Reuben Grant of Onslow, being sick and weak of 
body but of sound mind and memory, calling to mind the mortality of my body, I 
do make & ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following:  
First, my body to the earth & my soul to the mercy of my blessed Redeemer & as 
to my worldly goods, I will in manner and form following, first my debts and 
necessary charges be paid & satisfied.

ITEM: I give unto my beloved wife Elizabeth Grant my horse Smoker & chair and 
harness, mair dove, six cows & calves, two yoak of oxen, ten ewes, twenty head 
hogs, three beds & furniture, two plows, two axes, two hoes, all my puter & 
earthen ware & pots.
ITEM: I lend unto my beloved wife during her natural life, Negro Jude & Garl 
Chain; fellows Shade, Big Balam, Ira, Will, Suton, Virgin (ia?), Simbuck Carl, 
and after her death, the said Negroes and increase to return to my son Solomon 
Grant, to him and his heirs and assigns.  I lend my wife the plantation 
whereon I live during her life, then to my son Solomon E. Grant, to him, his 
heirs and assigns forever.
ITEM: I give unto Reuben Stephen Grant, at the time her arrives to the age of 
eighteen, two Negroes; boy Imboon & Garl Col, but should he not arrive to that 
age, the Negroes I give to my son Solomon E. Grant, to him, his heirs and 
assigns forever.
ITEM: My will is that my executors sell two Negroes, Jim and Rachel, in order 
to discharge a judgment against me.
ITEM: I give unto my son Solomon E. Grant all my lands, lots houses & that I 
have in the town of Swansborough, to him, his heirs and assigns forever.
ITEM: My will is that all my Negroes not yet mentioned be equally divided 
between my four daughters, Experience, Desire, Elizabeth & Ioaner (Iona?) as 
they shall arrive of age or marry, and until such time, the Negroes to be at 
the discretion of my executors to hire them our or not, as they shall think 
most advantageous, to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
ITEM: I give to my daughter Experience Grant one bay mare called Diment to 
her, her heirs and assigns forever.
ITEM: I give to Benajah Grant or Simson, one cow & calf, on e young sorrel 
horse, one ewe and lamb, one sow & pigs, my gun, shoe & knee buckles & stock 
buckle to him, his heirs and assigns.
ITEM: My will and desire is that all the estate, both real and personal, not5 
already mentioned, to be sold by executors, either at private or public sale 
to enable them to pay my debts and after my debts are all paid, I desire the 
moneys and incomes of the Negroes here should be applied towards bringing up 
my four daughters, Experience, Desire, Elizabeth & Ioaner (Iona?).
Last of all, I constitute and appoint my friend George Mitchell and son John 
Shiver & Jim Slade attest Solomon Charles Grant my executors, revoking all 
other wills by me made, acknowledging this only to be my last, in Witness 
whereunto set my hand and fixed my seal this the 10th Feb. 1791.

					Reuben Grant (seal)

Signed sealed and acknowledged by the Testator as his will in the presence of 
us the subscribers:
Rigdon Pitts
Ezrah Hawkins
Benajah (his X mark) Grant

Onslow County:  January Term 1793,presents Edward Ward, Esq., Chairman and the 
rest of the Justices for said county, when the within mentioned last will and 
testament of the Reuben Grant, Esq., deed was duly proven before the court by 
the oath of Rigdon Pitts, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, William 
Slade & John Spicer Esquire, two of the executors therein named appeared 
before the court and was duly qualified by taking the usual oath of an 
Executor.
Attest:  Will Craft, C.S.C