ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Nathaniel Loomis
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen:  I, Nathaniel Loomis of the County of Onslow, State 
of North Carolina, Physician, although in the enjoyment of a terrible(?) share 
of health and in the possession of my eartion(?) 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 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 a willingness to 
resign it into the hands of that Almighty being who formed it and as to my 
body, let it be buried at the discretion of my executors.  SECONDLY: It is my 
earnest will and desire as to my estate with which it has pleased God to bless 
me, be approximated and disposed of in the following manner, (viz.)

FIRST: that all my just debts and funeral expenses be honestly and punctually 
paid.
SECONDLY: It is my will that two of my old Negroes, Leasor and his wife India, 
be manumitted and set free and that they have for their maintenance and 
support the use of that tract of land containing eighty four acres which I 
bought of Benjamin Ramsey known by the Scott place, also the use of the 
cleared land and what they may clear of the land adjoining the same which I 
bought of Stephen Parker, also two cows and calves, one yoke of two or three 
year old stears, two sows and pigs and ten barrels of corn, during their 
natural lives.
THIRDLY: It is my will and desire that none of my land or Negroes be sold but 
that my land be rented and Negroes be hired out if found necessary to 
discharge my debts.
FOURTHLY: it is my will and desire that my wife Alice Loomis have the use of 
one third part of all my land during the term of her natural life.
FIFTHLY: It is my will and desire that all my personal estate consisting of 
Negroes, cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, household and kitchen furniture and 
plantation costs and all other personal estate, after the payment of my just 
debts, be equally divided into three parts as equally as can be done and that 
one third part go to my wife, Alice Loomis and the other two-thirds to my 
three brothers Simon Loomis, Solomon Loomis and Epraharas(?) Loomis, to them, 
their heirs, executors and administrators and assigns forever.
SIXTHLY: It is my will that if there is a surplus of money arising from my 
bonds, notes and accounts after paying my just debts, it is my will that it be 
divided as directed for my personal estate.

ONSLOW COUNTY: In court January Term 1816, this will of Nathaniel Loomis was 
left to a jury who brought in the verdict that (it) was his will.
ATTEST: Banister Lester, clerk