ROWAN COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Samuel Sewell, 6 Apr 1789
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Salisbury, NC
Will Book "D" 
Rowan County
Page 73

In the Name of God Amen, I Samuel Sewell of the County of Rowen, State of N.
Carolina, Planter, being very sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and
memory. Thanks, be given to God; calling into mind the mortality of my body
and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain
this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all,
I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I
recommend to the earth to be buried in (a) decent Christian burial, to the
discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the general resurrection,
I shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God and as touching such
worldly estate wherewith it pleased God to bless me in this life after my
lawful debts are paid. 

I give demise and dispose of the same in the following form:

First: I give and bequeath to Elizabeth my Dearly Beloved wife, one full third
of my land, with all improvements which I have made thereunto accrued during
the full time of her life, her wearing apparel, bed and bedding also the
biggest chest and spinning wheel, together with my room dresser and pewter
with all other furniture thereunto belonging, Table, knives and forks. I also
bequeath unto my Beloved wife Elizabeth, all my plantation tools of every
kind, with one black/brown horse called Desmond and one black mare known buy
the name of Bonnie Fay, together with her own saddle and bridle. I also give
and bequeath unto my Beloved wife Elizabeth all my beds and all furniture to
them belonging with my three ploughs and facklings belonging to each for the
support of my five youngest children. I also give and bequeath  to my Beloved
wife Elizabeth, four cows of her own choice together with two of my biggest
steers and the two suckling calves. I also give and bequeath to my Beloved
wife Elizabeth all my hogs and sheep, kind together with all my pots, ovens,
and all my household furniture. I also bequeath unto my Beloved Elizabeth all
my leather, flax, loath garment?, thread of every kind, wool also and all
grain, flour, roots and vegetables whether preserved or graining, my Son
Nicholas, part of the fall and spring crops excepted. I also give unto my wife
my pales, tubs and baskets, all the moveables, bequeathed unto my Beloved wife
during life in order to raise and educate my five youngest children and at her
death this my will and pleasure that all and every one of them shall be sold
at public sale and them and all profits arising from them shall be equally
divided amongst my five youngest children.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my Beloved son Nicholas Sewell, one black
stallion colt and my rifle gun and furniture thereunto belonging and it is my
will and pleasure that the remainder of my moveable estate shall be sold at
public sale and the money arising therefore to be equally divided amongst all
my children, It is my will and pleasure that my negro fellow Samuel shall stay
in my Plantation during his life of (with) my wife Elizabeth to help raise my
five youngest children and if it should please God to spare him, then to be
sold and the money, price of him to be equally divided amongst my children,
and it is my will and pleasure that my Plantation shall be divided in the most
advantageous manner according to the lines there of to four equal divisions
after the death of my Beloved wife Elizabeth, or anytime my son Nicholas shall
think proper and it is my will and pleasure that my son Nicholas shall have
his choice of the four divisions made of the said land providing it does not
interrupt my improvement, which I allow my Beloved wife Elizabeth, and the
other three divisions, I bequeath to my three youngest sons (viz) John,
Greenberry, and Moses, each to have his division.

I do hereby constitute, appoint and ordain my Dearly Beloved wife Elizabeth,
my beloved Son Nicholas and my good and trusty friend, James Nixon of
Mecklenburg County, executors of this my last Will and Testament. I do hereby
utterly disallow, revoke and disanull all and every other former Test: wills,
legacies, bequeaths and ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my
last Will and Testament.

In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of April
1789.

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the late, Samuel Sewell
to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us:  

John Betty, Joseph Gibson, Mary Bather(her mark)
						Samuel (his) Sewell {seal}
							mark
 

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