RANDOLPH COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Samuel WALL - 1823

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30 December 1821 Will of Samuel Wall, transcribed by Tim Walls 1999
Questions email me at twwalls@prodigy.net

(Will proved November term 1823 - Will Book 5, pg. 130)

(beginning of document:)

Be it remembered that I Samuel Wall of the County of Randolph and State
of North Carolina being in perfect mind and memory, do make this my 
last will and testament be in mind to dispose of my worldly affairs,
amen.

First of all I will and bequeath that all my just debts and funeral
charges should be paid out of my estate. Item, I will and bequest unto
my daughter Peninna, twenty shillings. Item, I will and bequest unto my
eldest son Britten twenty shillings. Item, I will and bequest unto my
beloved wife Mary, all my lands and property indoors and outdoors that 
I do possess to have and to hold during her lifetime or widowhood and 
at her decease or marriage to be equally divided among the rest of my
children the two boys to have the lands, Wiley and Jesse, first Wiley 
to have one hundred and twenty five acres of the upper and by running a
strait line North and South, and Jesse to have the rest of my lands, 
the girls to have and equal part of the rest of my property. Nancy,
Temperance and Elizabeth--item, I further will and bequeath that Dougan
Clark and my beloved wife, Mary shall be my sole executors to this my
last will and testament to settle my worldly affairs as the law directs
in witness hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
30th day of December 1821.

Witnesses

William Free
Solomon Free                       Samuel Wall (seal )

Randolph County Court November Term 1823
     The execution of this will of Samuel Wall was proven in open court
by William Free--one of the subscribing witnesses hereto and ordered to 
be recorded.
                                   Jesse Harper CCC

(end of document)

Transcriber NOTES:
1. Witnesses William and Solomon Free may actually be William and
Solomon Frie. Not much is known of them.
2. Dougan CLARK was a Quaker minister, formerly a Methodist minister,
who was married to Asenath HUNT, who was also a Quaker minister, in
1823.
3. Not much is known about Samuel's wife Mary, but she may be Mary
Brattain, born 1777, a daughter of Robert Brattain and Mary Millikan.
Robert Brattain owned 200 acres of land given to him by his father,
John.
4. Penninah may be Penny WALL who married Thomas GRAVES on March 09,
1803 in Randolph Co., NC. Since Samuel Wall was listed with 200 acres
and over age 50 in 1803, per the Tax List, it is likely that Penninah
was a child from a prior marriage. She was also treated differently 
from the other daughters in this will, implying that she was much older
and more established in her home, as was Brittain Wall at the time.
(Brittain Wall had 250 acres per the 1820 Tax List) No further record 
of Penny or Thomas Graves has been found yet.
5. Temperance was listed as age 50 in the 1850 Census and she is also
listed before Elizabeth in this will but after Nancy. However, the age
of Temperance conflicts with that of her brother Wiley Wall who was
listed as very nearly the same age.