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

In the name of God:  I, George Mitchell of Onslow County, do by this 
instrument appoint my good friends Joseph Scott Cray, Reuben Grant, William 
Jones and my son George Warren, soon as he may come to age of eighteen years, 
my executors to have full power of such.
FIRST: to collect all the money and debts that may be due me and settled where 
may be due; if not sufficient, then to sell either at private or public sale 
such part of my estate as they may think best to discharge the same, then make 
a division of all my personal estate (if Negroes) or so called (and) if not, 
they are to be included in as many part as may have children/nine months after 
my death including my wife, then she to have her choice which I give to her 
and her heirs and assigns forever.
If they or as many of the children as may be of age or married at the above 
division, they or either are to draw in the most legal manner and receive 
accordingly which I give to them he or she, to their heirs and assigns 
forever.
Then my whole estate to be kept together by keeping the Negroes and stock and 
the lands rented out or employing manager as my executor may think best.
A division to be in like manner as all the children may come to age or marry 
as the above which I give to them, their heirs and assigns forever, including 
if a daughter and equal part with all my daughters all my lands on New River 
or the waters thereof on New River Banks, reserving the plantation and 
sufficient renters for the use of the same, where I formerly lived on, to my 
wife during her life which lands I give to them, their heirs and assigns 
forever.
I give all my other land to be divided in like manner to my sons as they 
arrive to the age of twenty-one or marries, to them, their heirs, assigns and 
assigns forever.
The division to be made by three unconnected gentlemen, choose by my executors 
to do legal rights by valuation after division and then draw for in most 
perfect manner and where there may be money given to make legal, the pair 
shall have one year paying interest credit.
If any one shall refuse to pay the money to make the others equal, my 
executors are to sell giving twelve months credit paying interest frame 
(from?) the date as much of the refusers legacy as will discharge the same & 
give the bond to he or she as the case may be.
My desire is that all my children shall be educated in as good a manner as the 
estate will admit of without the use of the principal.
This I do acknowledge to be my last will and testament, revoking all others & 
as my whole time has been to do equal interest by all, this none will try to 
destroy the same & I do not date it as present but leave it so as to take in 
all my children to my death or if possible nine months after, but if an 
accident should happen so it should not be dated, I beg it may not be set 
aside.
In testimony I hereof, I set my hands.
					George Mitchell