PITT COUNTY, NC - WILL - Aaron Tyson Allen, 1845. ====================================================================== 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, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Eleanor Allen Jan 1999 ======================================================================== Will of Aaron Tyson Allen, 1845 Transcribed by Eleanor Allen Page 210 The last Will and Testament of Aaron T. Allen. In the name of God Amen I Aaron T. Allen of the county of Pitt & State of North Carolina being of sound and disposing mind do make and publish this to be my last Will & Testament to (wit). I lend to my beloved wife Susan Allen during her natural life or widowhood the tract of land whereon I now live. I also lend to my wife Susan the whole of my land except forty acres which I intend for my two children Priscilla & Samuel during her natural life or widowhood I also lend to my wife Susan Allen the whole of my property during her natural life or widowhood which (I) may not give any in this will. Item 2nd I give and bequeath to my daughter Priscilla Flake twenty acres of land in the Samuel Brown tract known by the name of Sal-day plane on the lower side. I also give & bequeath to my daughter Priscilla Flake Fifty dollars in notes. Item 3rd I give and bequeath to my son Samuel Allen twenty acres of land in the Samuel Brown tract known by the name of Sal-day plane on the upper side. I also give & bequeath to my son Samuel Allen Fifty dollars in notes also one young sow and pigs. Item 4th I give and bequeath to my daughter Lewcy Allen Fifty dollars in notes. Item 5th I give and bequeath to my son Ichabod Allen Fifty dollars in notes. Item 6th I give and bequeath to my son John R. Allen Fifty dollars in notes. Item 7th I give and bequeath to my son Zachariah Allen Fifty dollars in notes. Item 8th I give and bequeath to my son Ivy Allen Fifty dollars in notes. Item 9th I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret Allen Fifty dollars in notes. Item 10th I give and bequeath to my s Lewis Allen Fifty dollars in notes. Item 11th I give and bequeath to my daughter Sally Ann Allen Fifty dollars in notes. Page 211 Item 12th I give and bequeath to my son Thomas & to my daughter Elizabeth Thigpen both of which are living in the State of Alabama all of my wright title and Interest in the property I inherited on heires by the death of my brother Ichabod Allen in the State of Alabama I also give and bequeath to the said Thomas Allen & Elizabeth Thigpen all right title and interest that I had in the land I purchased of Samuel Allen. Item 13th I leave forty five dollars for the purpose of buying a farm Horse for the use of my wife during her natural life or widowhood. Item 14th After the death or marriage of my wife Susan my will and desire is that the land which I have loned her shall be equally divided between my children (to wit) Lewcy Allen, Ichabod Allen, John R. Allen, Zachariah Allen, Ivey Allen, Margaret Allen, Lewis Allen, & Sally Ann Allen the balance of the property which I have loned my wife after her death or marriage I have to be sold and the money arrising from said sale to be equally divided between all my children non living in the County of Pitt. Item 15th I nominate and appoint my friend John Spairs as executor to this my last will & Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal 13th day of January 1838. Signed sealed and delivered In the presence of us Aaron T.Allen William (his X mark) Beddard Moses Beddard May Sessions 1838 Then this paper waiting property to be the last will & Testament of Aaron T. Allen was exhibited into open court & proved indue form of law by the oath of William Beddard & Moses Beddard the subscribing witnesses thereto Let it be enrolled at the same time John Spairs the executrix therein named qualified as Executrix Hereto atteste Archibald Parker Clk Page 212 State of North Carolina Pitt County I William D. Moye Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the aforesaid County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the will of Aaron T. Allen as full & wr_ten as remaining of record. Given under my hand & seal of office at Greenville the 25th day of October A.D. 1845 William D. Moye, Clerk State of North Carolina Pitt County I Marshall Dickinson chairman of the Court of Pleas for the said County of Pitt do hereby certify that William D. Moye whose signature is to the foregoing certificate of record is and was at the date thereof the clerk of the said court that due faith & said is to given there to and that the same is in due form of law given under my hand and seal in said county of Pitt the 25th day of Oct 1845 Marshall Dickinson Chair C.C. State of North Carolina Pitt County I William D. Moye Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the aforesaid County do hereby certify that Marshall Dickinson whose signature appears to the foregoing certified is chairman of our said Court & that full faith should be given to his acts as such. Given under my hand and seal of office at Greenville the 25th day of October A.D. 1845. William D. Moye, clerk The State of Alabama Perry County I Jas. F. Bailey, Judge of the Probate Court of the County and State of aforesaid Page 213 Do hereby certify that the foregoing pages contain a true copy of what purports to be a genuine & certified transcript of the proceedings had in the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Pitt in the State of North Carolina. That the foregoing copy has been carefully compared with the said supposed transcript by me at the instance of Ichabod I. Allen of this county & I find the same to agree in every particular. In the testimony of which I have hereto set my hand & Seal of office June 2nd 1858 Jas. F. Bailey, Judge