ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Lemual Williams, 5 Sep 1806
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina


State of North Carolina:

In the name of God, Amen:  I, Lemual Williams, being very sick and weak in 
body but of sound mind and memory, calling to mind that it is appointed once 
for all men to die, I therefore make and ordain this my last will and 
testament in the following manner, that is to say:

ITEM: I lend to my beloved wife Elizabeth during her widowhood my plantation 
where I now live with all my plantation tools and the bay mare Diamond and her 
filly, eight cows and calves, four three-year old steers, six sows and pigs, 
fourteen head of sheep, twenty head of geese, one feather bed & furniture, all 
my kitchen furniture, twenty five two-year-old hogs and thirty year-old hogs, 
one saddle and two bridles and all my household furniture.
ITEM: I give unto my beloved son Brice Williams the plantation where he now 
lives, beginning at the New River Swamp at the mouth of a drean running along 
the drean to Montford line down Mumford line to the corner, thence down Killy 
Cranky Road to the River Swamp, then up the swamp to the beginning and five 
pound in money.
ITEM: I give to my son Bryan Williams one cow and calf and the plantation and 
land lying on Sabiston Swamp containing two hundred and fifty acres, one bed 
and bedstead and furniture and five pound in money.
ITEM: I give to my children that I had by my wife Elizabeth one cow and calf 
apiece, one bed and furniture.
ITEM: I give unto my son Lemuel half of the plantation I now live upon after 
the death or widowhood of his mother.
ITEM: I give to my son Lewis the other half of my plantation where I now live 
after the death or marriage of his mother.
ITEM: I give to my son Allen the plantation where my brother Nathan Williams 
now livers after the death of Nathan and his wife and one hundred and fifty 
acres of land lying over Linston Irving plantation line.
ITEM: I give to my son Braddick the plantation formerly called by Nathan's old 
place and one hundred and fifty acres joining the said place bought of William 
Barden.
ITEM: I also give to my two daughters Nancy and Penny Williams one hundred 
pounds in money apiece.
ITEM: I also leave my old Negro Cate for the use of wife and young children.
ITEM: I also leave my Negro fellow Lige to be sold and all the remainder of my 
property to be sold and after my just debts is paid, for the remainder of the 
money to be equally divided amongst my young children, and I therefore 
nominate and appoint my beloved son Brice Williams and Jason Gregory executors 
to this my last will and testament, N.B.  I also appoint my executor to be 
guardian to my young children, this the fifth day of September eighteen 
hundred and six, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal.

					Lemuel (his X mark) Williams (seal)

Test:
Nathan Williams
Salling (her X mark) Whaley
Polley (her X mark) Sheffer

Onslow County:  In court January Term 1807, the within will of Lemuel Williams 
was proved in open court by the oath of Nathan Williams & Sally Whaley and the 
executors therein named qualified agreeable to law.
Nathaniel Loomis, C.C.