ORANGE COUNTY, NC - Wills - George Troxler, 29 Oct 1825 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jacqueline Tilley Wilkerson jwilkerson@visionet.org ==================================================================== Orange County, North Carolina Will Book E, Page 101, 102 & 103 George Troxler - October 29, 1825 In the name of God Amen I George Troxler being under severe bodily affliction & infirmity, but of sound mind, & disposing memory & bearing in mind that all men have once to die I recommend my soul to God, who gave it & would to dispose of such worldly Estate as it has pleased God to bless me with in this world - by publishing this my last Will & Testament in the following manner (to wit) First I wish my body to be buried in a Christian like manner 2ndly I will my beloved wife Peggy the Tract of Land on which I now live supposed to contain two hundred and sixty five acres more or less to her to have & to possess all the rents & profits until my son John shall arrive at mature age or marry , the rents & profits is intended by me to school my son John & the others as she my wife may think proper, herself, but at the death or the marriage of my wife of the marriage or mature age of my son John, then I wish my wife to have only the one third part of the land to be laid off by a Jury of twelve good, lawful men, & then the third so laid off for her should it be done before my children are all of age or schooled & shall be annually liable for the one third part of the same necessary to raise or school my children, I also will my beloved wife my two negro men Tom & ? and all my stock of every description, farming utensils & all the property & means that I now have myself during her widowhood or until my son John comes of age, then to be sold to enable her to pay my debts should she not be able to pay my Debts as they come due or want be paid, then I wish such property to be sold as she my Executor may judge best to an amount sufficient to pay my debts _ 3rdly I will my Eldest daughter Adeline Warren & her husband Briscoe Warren the one half of the tract of Land lying on stinking quarters on which they now live to them & their heirs forever - should they wish to sell the land it is my will that they shall have a disposable title to it provided my daughter Adaline will consent - should she never sign away her interest, the land to descend to her heirs, I value the Land at five hundred Dollars to them. 4thly I will my daughter Franky Rich wife of Henry Rich the one half of my Tract of land on stinking quarters on which they now live to them & their heirs forever, should they wish to sell the land, it is my wish that they shall have a disposable title, provided my daughter Franky will consent, should she never sign away her interest the land to descend to her heirs. I value it at five hundred dollars - I wish my two sons-in-law, Warren & Rich to divide the land themselves, & should they not agree, it is my will, that each one of them shall choose one man, and those two men choose a third man & proceed to divide the Land as they may think proper & fair between them it is my wish that each one shall hold the part on which he lives - 5thly I will my daughter that may first hereafter marry the tract of land I purchased of ? Spoon one hundred acres more or less which I value at five hundred dollars - 6thly I will my two other daughters that may remain after one other is married the sum of five hundred dollars each in cash - 7thly I will to my son John the tract of Land I now live on containing two hundred & sixty five acres more of less to him & his heirs forever - subject to the interest willed his mother ? & if - My two daughters Adaline & Franky who are married has got each one horse saddle & bridle two beds & furniture one cow & calf & one heifer ? others ? articles - It is my will that my other children not yet married shall when they marry or come of age have the same articles or their reasonable value to be judged by my Executor. It is also my will that, when any of my children marry or arrives at mature age & demand it that my Executor at their discretion sell of the property to make up their parts, specially willed them & if any balance remains it shall be equally divided between my wife & children shall & sharealike & should be a deficiency in making up the portions will each one them, each one might lose alike - It is my will that at the death or marriage of my wife or mature age of my son John that my Executors proceed to sell all the property not specially willed & divide it as above directed. I nominate & appoint my son-in-law Briscoe Warren & William Montgomery my Executors to this my last Will & testament - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 29th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred twenty five D Albright George Troxler (seal) B Troxler (?) Orange County February Term 1826 The Execution of the foregoing last will & testament of George Troxler deceased was duly proved in open court by the oath of B. Troxler a subscribing witness thereto & ordered to be recorded - At the same time Briscoe Warren one of the Executors therein named qualified accordingly. Test.