Pamlico County, NC - Wills - Spruill, Tully - 1879 

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                          SPRUILL FAMILY WILLS

                                  
                             TULLY SPRUILL
                            April 24, 1879
                                  

I TULLY SPREWELL of the State of North Carolina and County of Pamlico being
of sound and deposing mind and memory and knowing the uncertainty of my
Earthly existence do make publish and declare this to be my last will and
testament in manner and form following and I do hereby revoke all other
wills or clauses of wills here to fore made by me

first that my executors herein after named shall provide for my body a
descent burial suitable to the wishes of relatives and friends and pay all
my just debts to whomever owing and of the moneys which may first come into
his hands as a part and parcel of my estate

Second I give and bequeath unto my beloved son A. K. SPRUILL two tracts of
land the first two acres where he now lives running to a dividing ditch
between his house and the homestead. The second tract 169? acres on the
upper end of the Swamp field on as much as will make it equal with the
heirs in the enti?? tract that I am now seized and possessed of to him the
said A. K. SPRUILL his heirs and assigns forever

Third I give and bequeath to my beloved sons Daniel N. SPRUILL and Johnson
SPRUILL one tract of land on the ???? ???? between ??? J. P. REDDING and
myself adjoining A. K. SPRUILLs line enough of the said land to contain one
forrest of the certain tract to them and their heirs forever.

Fourth I give and bequeath to my beloved son James SPRUILL one eighth of
the entire tract aforesaid so as to include the dwelling house to him the
said James SPRUILL and his heirs and assigns forever.

Fifth I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Victorine? ALLEN wife of
Asa R. ALLEN one tract of land beginning in ??? John P. REDEDINGs line and
running ????? so as to include one eighth of all the land there I am now
seized and possessed of to her and her heirs forever.

Sixth I give and bequeath to the heirs of my beloved daughter Mary Eliza
GASKINS wife of James H. GASKINS one tract of land situated on the head of
Aligator Creek adjoining the GASKINS land containing one eighth of all my
lands that I am now seized and possessed of to them and their heirs
forever.

Seventh I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Ellen GATLIN wife of
Bradford GATLIN ???????? ???? on one eighth of the tract where I now live
adjoining Victorine? ALLENs land also 7 1/2 acres on ?????? to make one
eighth of the entire tract situated on the head of Aligator Creek adjoining
the J. H. NICHOLS land to her the said Ellen GATLIN her and her heirs
forever.

Eighth I give and bequeath to the heirs of my beloved daughter Alice CASEY
wife of Hardy CASEY one eighth of my lands I am now seized and possessed of
situated on the head of Aligator Creek adjoining the lands of Ellen GATLIN
to them and their heirs forever

Ninth I hereby give the cotton gin to the use of the farm or its occupants

Lastly I hereby nominate and appoint my beloved son Daniel N. SPRUILL sole
executor to this my last will and testament given under my hand and seal
this 24th day of April AD 1879.

TULLY SPRUILL {seal}

Signed, sealed, published, and declared by Tully SPRUILL to be and contain
his last will and testament at whose request and in whose presence and in
the presence of each other we do unto subscribe as witnesses

F. F. CHERRY
J. L. BRYAN?

State of North Carolina Pamlico County In the Probate Court

A paper purporting to be the last will and testament of Tully SPRUILL
deceased is exhibited before me the undersigned Judge of Probate of said
County by Daniel N. SPRUILL the executor therein mentioned and the ???
executions thereof by the said Tully SPRUILL by the oath and examination of
F.F. CHERRY and by the oath of J.T. SPRUILL as to the handwriting of J.L.
BRYAN deceased the subscribing witnesses then to who being duly sworn doth
depose and say and each for himself deposeth and sith that he is a
subscribing witness to the paper writing now shown him purporting to be the
last will and testament of Tully Spruill that the said Tully Spruill in the
presence of this dispo????t subscribed his name at the end of said paper
writing which is now shown as aforesaid and which bears date of the 24th
day of April 1879....

(Last page missing from my copy)

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