Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Howard, Richard December 29, 1849
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Source: Loose Will, NC Archives CR 073.801, Will Book Volume G, page 172
Written: December 29, 1849
Recorded: May 1857
Testator: Richard Howard

I Richard Howard Sr. of Orange County
and State of Ncaroling[sic] I am now of
Common mind and Sence and thanks
Be to God for it as Taching Such worldly
as Stats[estates] as God has Bless me with
in this Life I Dispose of the Same in
the Follows manor[sic] in the first place
I Leave to my BeLave[sic] wife Ruthy
my plantation to Gether with the Crop
and Stock Farming Tools house hold
and Kitchen Funituer[sic] Soe Long as She
Lives and at hur Death all to be Sold
and Euqile Devided Between my heirs
it is my will that my Sister Ritha
Shall Lives[sic] in the Family as heere to
for[e] I appoint my Son Thomas Excr
to this my Last will in witness Where
of I put my hand and Seal December 29.1849
Test
Samuel Stuebbins Jr              (seal)
D W Lasley      Richard Howard Senr.

        & assign in my presents by
        by[sic] the subscribing witnesses

Additional Comments:
Will Book Volume G, page 172
Recorded May 1857

This Richard appears to be the the son of Elizabeth Howard listed in her will dated 29 Nov 1824 and Thomas Howard, listed in his will of 25 Jul 1815.  "Ritha" is Henrietta / Henritta, etc.

There are several estates under the name of Richard Howard in this county in this time, one dated by the state archives as 1862, and one 1863.

In these papers, Ruthy is listed as Ruthy C. Howard. with a note owed and paid to the estate for $16.10, so perhaps in this case, not the wife listed above?

In the papers labeled "1862", Thomas W. Howard is the Executor, the other Thomas S. Cates is the Administrator.

"Henreete Howard" is listed as deceased by the end of 1862

Also note that there is an estate listed for Sarah and Rutha Howard dated 1863

In other records, there is a Ruth Whitehead who married a Richard Howard in Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina on 26 December 1821.