ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - William Pollock, 23 Dec 1800
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God Amen:  I William Pollock of the State of North Carolina and
the county of Onslow being very low in body but in my perfect mind and senses
do make this my last will and testament.  I recommend sole to God and my body
to be decently buried and my worldly good to be divided & left as follows VIZ:

ITEM: I give to my beloved wife Hannah Pollock the following Negroes VIZ:
Samuel, Phobe, Manuel, & Leah during her natural life if my debts can be paid
without but if not Manual & Leah must be sold to pay my debts and at the death
of my wife the above mentioned Negroes is to be equally divided among my three
youngest children namely Nancy Pollock, Sary Pollock and the child my wife now
travails with and likewise the increase of the said Negroes if any I leave as
the rest that I have already given.

ITEM: I leave to my beloved wife, during her natural life the plantation where
I now live, from the Craft's fence that the plantation from the river to the
woods with a straight line as the fence runs out as far as Barrows line with
all the houses and improvements thereunto belonging & at the death of my wife
I leave the above mentioned land to my son William Pollock with all the
woodling land belonging to it to him and his heirs forever.

ITEM: I leave to my beloved wife seven cows & calves with all the young cattle
& all my stock of hogs for the maintainance of her & my children also three
feather beds & furniture one yoake of oxens and my grey horse & saddle &
bridle with all my plantation tools and cart and at her death to dispose of
the last mentioned thing as she sees proper.

ITEM: I give to my son John Pollock one Negro man named Aamus with twenty five
acres of piney land at the head line of the land I bought of John Beatt also
one horse two cows and calves two yous & lambs half a dozen peuter plates two
ploghs one iron pot, to him and his heirs forever.

ITEM: I give to my son Elijah Pollock one hundred acres of land it being part
of the land I bought of John Beatt with all the improvements thereto belonging
the deviding line between my sons John & Elijah run from Butler's house a
direct course to the ditch with a negroe boy named Hosea & one horse man
pillion saddle & bridle two cows and calves two youse & lambs two sows & pigs
& three dry hogs, one bar plow & iron pot to him and his heirs forever.

ITEM: I give to my son Lewis the remaining part of my plantation from the
above mentioned cross fence to Mudy Creek & up the said creek & the above line
to Barrows line also the (?) I bought of William Norman and a negroe boy named
Sambow, one horse named Dolphin with a saddle and bridle two cows & calves and
the hogs he now claims with two yous & lambs one plow to him and his heirs
forever.

ITEM: I give to my daughter Ellenden Pollock one Negro girl named Sarah one
feather bedstead & furniture two cows and calves two yous & lambs half doz
earthern plates to her and her heirs forever.

ITEM: I give to my son William Pollock one Negro boy named Luke to him and his
forever.

ITEM: I give to my daughter Henretta Pollock one negroe boy named Hardy to her
and her heirs forever.

ITEM: I give to my daughter Elizabeth Pollock one negroe named Esther to her
and her hsirs forever.

ITEM: I give to my daughter Nancy One negroe boy named Joseph to her and her
heirs forever.

My further desire is that my three sons John Elijah & Lewis Pollock be my
executors to this my last will and testament in witness whereof I have set my
hand and seal this twenty third day of December in the year of our Lord 1800.

William Pollock (seal)

In the presence of us:
Geptha Ward
John Johnson

John, Elijah, and Lewis qualified.


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