ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - William Wiley, 17 Feb 1801
                    --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤--------------

Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen: I William Wiley of the County of Onslow County and
State of North Carolina, Planter, being sick and weak in body but of perfect
mind and memory, thanks be given unto God and calling unto mind the mortality
of my body and knowing it is appointed unto all men once to die do make and
ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of
all I give and recommend my sole in the hands of Almighty God that gave it me
and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried Christian form at the
descretion of my executors nothing doubting  but at the general resurrection I
shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such
worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give
and devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form, VIZ:
First, I give and bequeath unto mbeloved wife Sally Willey, one gray mare by
the name Fly to her and her heirs forever, also two feather beds and
furniture, to her her heirs forever and further lend my wife three cows and
calves till my children arrives to full age ormarry and then to belong to my
children I also lend my wife a certain Negro man by the name of Peter during
her widowhood and longer if she keeps my children till them come to age and
then to be returned to my children and then to be sold and the money to be
equally divided between my three children, VIZ: Betsy Willey, Sealy Wiley, and
Susanna Willey.

ITEM: I also give un;to my beloed wife Sally Willey, all my household
furniture and all my kitchen furniture to her and her heirs forever, also one
fluke plow to her and her heirs forever, also two weeding hoes to her and her
heirs forever.

ITEM: I also give my beloved wife two sows nd pigs, her choice to her and her
heirs forever, and al lthe rest of my property not mentioned in my will to be
sold to pay my debts.

And lstly I moniate and appoint my loving friend Joseph Ballard and Lawrence
Jarman to be my hole and sole executors of this my last will and testament,
and I do hereby disallow disnul and revoke ll and every former testament wills
and bequeaths and exes, by me heretofore named willed or bequeathed ratifying
and confirming this and no other to be my last will and tetament in witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the seventeenth day of
February in the year of our lord Christ eighteen hundred and one.

					William Willey (seal)

Signed sealed publishe dpronounced and delivered by the said William Willey as
his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in
the presence of each other have hereuto subscribed our names.
Matthew (his X mark) Jarman
Polly (her X mark) McDaniel

Proved by the oath of Polly McDaniel Executrix, April term 1807.
Nath Loomis, C.C.


___________________________________________________________________

	Copyright.  All rights reserved.
	http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm

	This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives 
	by:  Beverly Cole	
___________________________________________________________________