ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Zebedee Hancock, May 1820
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina



In the name of God, Amen:  I, Zebedee Hancock of the county of Onslow in the 
State of North Carolina, being in perfect health of body and of sound & 
disposing mind, memory and understanding, considering the certainty of death 
and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being desirous to settle my 
worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it 
shall please God to call me, hence do therefore make and publish this my last 
will and testament, in manner and form following, that is to say:

First and principally, I commit my soul into the hand of Almighty God, and my 
body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors 
hereinafter named.  I lend to my wife Nancy Hancock my house and plantation 
whereon I now live from Mill Branch up to the next branch about 75 acres more 
or less, during her life and to my son William, his heirs & assigns.

ITEM: I give and bequeath unto my youngest son Anson Hancock all my lands 
lying below Mill Branch (only a privilege of forty acres march I will to be 
divided between my son William and my daughter Elizabeth) to him, his heirs 
and assigns.
ITEM: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Hancock my plantation and 
land by the name of Bakers Field where Brown formerly lived, to run up the 
branch far enough to contain seventy five acres to her, her heirs and assigns.
ITEM: I give and bequeath the rest of my Piney land to be equally divided 
between my two sons William and Anson Hancock, to them, their heirs and 
assigns.
ITEM: I lend unto my wife Nancy Hancock four Negroes by the name Tom, Amy, 
Chany, Finnety, during her life then to be equally divided between my three 
children William, Elizabeth and Anson, to them, their heirs and assigns.
ITEM: I give and bequeath unto my son William one Negro girl by the name of 
Moriah to him, his heirs and assigns.
ITEM: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth one Negro girl by the 
name f Venus, to her, her heirs and assigns.
ITEM: I give and bequeath unto my son Anson one Negro boy by the name of Abram 
to him, his heirs and assigns.
ITEM: I give and bequeath at the divisions, that my two sons Williams and 
Anson shall pay unto my daughter Elizabeth fifty dollars a piece for the 
licency in her land.
ITEM: I lend unto my wife Nancy all the rest and residue of my estate both 
real and personal during her life and then to be equally divided between my 
three children William, Elizabeth and Anson and lastly, I do hereby constitute 
and appoint my son William Hancock to be sole executor of this my last will 
and testament, revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made, 
ratifying & confirming this & none other to be my last will & testament.  In 
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my seal this (?) day of 
May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty.

					Zebedee Hancock (seal)

Azariah Simpson
Susanna Simpson

Onslow County:  In court August term 1824, this will was proved in open court 
by the affirmature of John Eubank and William Hancock qualified as executors.
Banister Lester, Clerk