ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - Benjamin Yeates, 10 Sep 1800
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Record of Wills, Book A
1800-1825
Onslow County, North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen: I Benjamin Yeates of the County of Onslow and State 
of North Carolina, being of sound and perfect mind and memory blessed be God 
do this tenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred make and publish this my last will and testament in manner following 
that is to say when it pleased God to call me from this world, that my 
executors will have my body carried to the place that I sold to Benjamine 
Oliver where part of my children is buried as I reserved the burying ground 
when I sold the land and there to be decently buried at the discretion of my 
executors & first my will and desire is that so much of my personal property 
as will do to pay all my just debts to be sold by my executors to the best 
advantage as they think proper to settle the said debts and if there should be 
any remaining of my personal property after settling my just debts the same to 
be equally divided among my wife and children.
ITEM: I leave to my beloved wife Patty Yeates my bay horse two calves one 
feather bed & furniture further my will & desire is that my wife should keep 
my children as long as she can do a good part by them but if thro a turn or 
change of providence they should come to suffer or dealt bad with for my 
executors to take my son Silas & do the best they can with him, my stepmother 
will take my daughter Caty but as long as their mother can do a good part by 
them to keep them my will & desire is that sons Thomas, Benjamin & Silas have 
one year schooling out of their parts of my property & further desire is that 
my daughters Patsey & Caty have one years schooling out of their par of my 
estate.
ITEM: I leave to my son Thomas Yeates three sows & three pounds nine shilling 
in money as a debt do from me to him.
ITEM: I leave to my youngest Benjamine Yeates (Jr.) one pound six shillings 
sixpence as a debt do from me to him & one sow and pigs to him likewise.
ITEM: I leave to my daughter Patsey two sows forever.
ITEM: I leave a sufficient support for my wife & children out of my crop & 
hogs for the ensuing year it is to be understood that what I have mentioned 
hear left to my children is to them and their heirs forever further my will & 
desire is for all my lands that I possess for to be sold and the money to be 
equally divided among all my children, namely Thomas Lurany Patsey Benjamine 
Caty & Silas, only my wife Patsey Yeates to have her thirds of the land laid 
of to her on the plantation where I now live as my executor think most to her 
advantage.
ITEM: I give to my daughter Lurany my hat & my clothes I leave to be equally 
divided among my three sons, my further will and desire is that Charles Nixon, 
John Fullwood, Esq., and Zephaniah Ward be the three men that I have made 
choice to act and do my business as my executors to this my last will and 
testament.
Benjamine Yeates (Sr.) (seal)

Joseph Ballard
Thomas B. Yeates
The within will of Benjamine Yeates was proved in open court by Joseph Ballard 
and Charles Nixon and John Fullwood and Zephaniah Ward the executors therein 
named qualified thereto January term 1802.
Nath Loomis, C.C.