ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Joel Wilder, 21 Oct 1825
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God Amen:  this 21st of October 1825, I Joel Wilder of Onslow
County, a farmer by occupation being in a low state of bodily health but of my
usual understanding & knowing it is appointed for all men to die do make this
my last will and testament in the following words, first I recommend my soul
to the care of my redeemer & my body to its parent earth & concerning my
worldly estate, I dispose of it in the following manner, that is to say, I
lend to my beloved wife Hester during her natural life my Negro woman slave
Tilda and her eldest son Shade, her next eldest son Julius & her daughter
Selah together with their increase and also my stock of cattle, my hogs &
horse, during her natural life and at my wife's death such part of my cattle
hogs & my horse if then alive, together with Negro woman Tilda, boy Shade &
Julius & girl Selah & all their increase be equally divided between my
following children, that is to say, my son Jesse and my daughters Savina,
Fanny, Betsey, Sena, & Hettie to them and their heirs and assigns forever.

I also lend my beloved wife Hester all my bed, bedstead, & furniture, my
household & kitchen furniture & my plantation tools of every description
during the term of her natural life & at her death the last loaned property to
be equally divided between my granddaughter Oma Wilkens, my grandson Joe
Wilder & the heirs male & female of my daughters Selah Stone to them their
heirs and assigns forever.

I give and bequeath to my son Malachi Wilder the sum of ten dollars to him his
heirs and assigns forever, which gift of ten dollars to Malachi is not
intended to hinder his accounting with my executors hereinafter named for same
amount due me ona ajudgement I now hld against him which judgement I expect to
balance against a note said Malachi holds against me or has held against me, I
also appoint John Averitt of Onslow County & John Kennedy of Duplin County
executors to this my last will, denying all other wills and acknowledging this
to be my will in testimony whereof I here set my hand and seal and in
presence.

					Joel Wilder (seal)

James Glenn Sr
James Strange

ONSLOW COUNTY: Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions August term 1808, this was 
the foregoing will of Joel Wilder duly proved in open court by the oath of 
James Glenn one of the subscribing witness & John Kennedy one of the executors 
therein named qualified thereto, agreeably to law.
Daniel Ambrose, clerk


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