ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - John Hammond, 23 Feb 1823
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen:  I, John Hammond of the County of Onslow and State
of North Carolina, although in the enjoyment of a tolerable share of health
and in the possession of my rational faculties, reflecting on the mortality
that is prevalent among mankind and knowing that it is appointed for all men
once to die, I have thought it prudent and advisable to constitute, make and
ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following, (viz.):
First, believing in the immortality of the soul, I wish for willingness to
resign it into the hands of the Almighty Being who furnished it and as to my
body, let it be buried at the discretion of my executors.  2nly:  It is my
earnest will and desire as to my estate with which it has pleased God to bless
me, be appointed and disposed of in the following manner, (viz.): 1st, that
all my just debts and funeral expences be honestly and punctually paid.

1st: I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Esther Hammond all my land
whereon I now live, one bed, one Negro woman named Gin aged about thirty five,
one Negro boy by the name of Isaac aged about fourteen years, one chest, one
spinning wheel, one loom, one yoke of oxen, one cow and calf, three heifers,
one linen wheel, one plow and gear, one beaufit and crockery, one pine table,
two ewes, and kitchen furniture, two sows and pigs and nine shoats, which is
my will and desire that she shall have during her natural life and then be
disposed of as I shall hereafter direct.

2nd:  I give and bequeath unto my son Washington Hammond all my lands whereon
I now live containing two hundred and eighty five acres, be the same more or
less, one bed and furniture, one chest, three hoes, but I reserve the right of
land for my wife her lifetime.

3rd: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Merenda Scott one bay horse, one
bed, one chest, one pot, one cow and calf, which I have heretofore lent her.

4th: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Rebecca Hammond one bed and bedstead
and furniture, one black walnut chest, two ewes and all remaining cattle of my
stock except one yoke of oxen at the death of my wife, also three chairs, one
seder table, one wollen and one linen wheel at the death of my wife also, one
pot, one tea kettle, one loom.

5th:  I give and bequeath unto my son John H. Hammond, one Negro woman by the
name Gin aged thirty five years, one bed and furniture, one yoke of oxen at
the death of my wife, two ewes, one blue pine table, one hand mill, one pair
of stulyards, three chairs, one beaufet at the death of my wife, one three
gallon jug.

6th: I give and bequeath unto my son Edward G. Hammond one Negro boy by the
name of Isaac aged fourteen years at the death of my wife, also one bed and
furniture at my decease.

7th: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Margaret Littleton one bed and
bedstead, two cows and calves, which I have lent them heretofore, two chairs,
also it is my will and desire that my two youngest sons John H. Hammond,
Edward G. Hammond act as my executors.  In testamony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my hand and seal February 23rd, 1823.

					John (his X mark) Hammond (seal)

Signed in presence of us:
Joseph Hawkins
Mary Hawkins

Onslow County:  In court August term 1823, this will of John Hammond proved by 
Joseph Hawking, one of the subscribing witnesses and John Hammond, one of the 
executors therein named, qualified thereto.
Test:  B. Lester, clerk
By Robert C. Lester, Asst clerk