RANDOLPH COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Gabriel Russell, 1856
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Last Will and Testament
March 7, 1856

In the name of God, Amen.  I, Gabriel Russell being of sound and perfect mind 
and memory in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six 
make and publish this my last will and testament revoken all other wills or 
bills of sails or deeds of gifts or any other    or    or    that may be set 
up against my property that is to say in memory as follows: I give and 
bequeath to my wife Mary Russell the tract of land with the improvements that 
we live on at this time contain two hundred acres duren hir natural life time 
or widerhood all so I give and bequeath to my wife Mary a negro woman by the 
name of Nancy to take care of hir and if she be dead the land be sold at the 
highest bidder and be divided amongst my children and for Aby to take the 
negro woman Nancy for hir property, I, Gabriel, do give and bequeath to my 
wife Mary one feather bed and furniture one loom one flax wheel one cotton 
wheel one clock and as much of  furniture as is nesery one cow and calf and as 
much grain and wheat and meat and sugar and coffey as will do her or them one 
year and at the of my wife Mary or if she be married to another man my will is 
that the household and kitchen furniture shall be sold and divided up amongst 
my children.  I also now name the property that my wife brought here when she 
came home with me.  One feather bed and furnitude one small chist one falden 
table this property she is to do with this as she pleases in life and at her 
death it belong to her children.  By my will I also give and bequeath to my 
son Wilson Russell one negro man by the name of Ned beside what he hath had 
and I also give and bequeath to my son Milba Russell a negro boy by the name 
of Handy beside what he hath had and I also give and bequeath to my son Ensley 
a negro boy by the name of John beside what he hath had I also give and 
bequeath to my son Whitson Russell a negro man by the name of David and two 
hundred acres of land where he now lives beside what he had I also give to my 
darter Aby the wife of Cornelius Varner a negro woman by the name of Nancy whn 
my wife is done with hir besides what she hath had I also give and bequeath to 
my darter Dovey a negro by the name of Morris (?) beside what she hath had I 
also give and bequeath to my darter Lovey the wife of Harris Hill in stid of a 
negro three hundred and fifty dollars as she is livin in a free state beside 
what she hath had I also give and bequeath to my darter Margaret the wife of 
Benjamin Harrison a negro woman by the name of Mary beside what she hath had I 
also give and bequeath to my darter Sidney the wife of James Allen a negro 
girl by the name of Eady beside what she hath had and if she has to take the   
she is fore years old she must have fifty dollars to make her up equal and 
there is one hundred and twenty acres east to given the old track to be sold 
and forty acres to be given Wilson and Whitson and the old track and I wood  
that the two boys wood divide it between them at a fair valuation for it wood 
soot them both but above all things I want you to execute this in      and 
over me when I am in my grave.  And now I will state to you that this is my 
last will and testament hoping that it will be executed.  I want to execute it 
my sons Wilson Russell and Whitson Russell.  This my last will and testament 
in wittness where of I the said Gabriel Russell fix my seal.

Zeb Russell					Gabriel Russell
Eli Russell 					seal

Randolph County                           	Court of Pleas
North Carolina					November Term 1857


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