Tyrrell County NcArchives Wills.....Casewell, Matthew 1754
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Source: Nc Wills & Inventories - Grimes
Written: 1754

            MATTHEW CASEWELL'S WILL.

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, this Twenty Fourth Day of 
March, Seventeen Hundred and Fifty Four. I, Matthew 
Casewell, of Tyrrell County, in the Province of North Carolina, 
planter, Being sick and weak in Body, but of Sound and per- 
fect Memmory, thanks be Given to God for the Same, Therefore 
calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body & knowing that it 
is appointed for all men once to Die; do make and Ordain 
this my Last will and Testament, In the form & Manner Fol- 
lowing, That is to say: principaly and First of all, I Recomend 
my Soul unto the hands of God who gave it me & my Body 
to the Earth to be Buried in a Decent Christian Buriall at
the Descresion of my Exers. hereafter Named; And as Touch-
ing Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath ben pleased God
to Bless me in this Life, I Depose of the Same in the Manner
& Form following:

Imprimis. I Give & Bequeath unto my Beloved son, Mat- 
thew Casewell, the plantation and Two Hundred and Twenty 
Acres of Land, being the Land formerly Belonging to Edward
Phelps; and Likewise Twenty two Accres of Land out of the
Loghouse Survey Joyning on Samll. Spruill Line, Known by
the Name of the Back Ridge, Unto Him & His Heirs & Assigns
for ever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved Son, Samuell
Casewell, my Log House plantation with Two Hundred Acres
of Land Belonging to the same.

Item. I Give and bequeath to my Beloved Son, Elisha
Casewell, my Manner plantation which I Live on, with one
Hundred Thirty And Six Acres, more or Less, to him, his heirs
and Assigns for Ever.

Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Beloved Daughter,
Joanna Casewell, the Land Called ye Red Banks, with one
hundred acres of Land Joyning the plantation, to her, her
Heirs and Assigns for Ever, with Twenty Two Acres of Land
in the Log House Survey, Joyning her Brother Matthew.

Item. I Give and bequeath to my beloved Daughter, Eiza.
Casewell, the plantation and Land belonging to the Same,
known by the Name of Brats Island, to her & Her Heirs &
assigns for Ever.

Item. I Give and bequeath to my Beloved Daughter,
Jemima Casewell, the plantation and Land Belonging to the
Same, Known by the Name of Addesons Island, and Like-
wise my part of the Tract of Land Surveyd between me and
James Phelps, Sen., Lying on the East Side of Scuppernung
River &c., To Her, And Her Heirs and Assigns for Ever.

Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter, Tabitha
Casewell, Two Hundred acres of Land known by the Name
of the Log House Land, Joyning my Son, Samuell, to Her and
Her Heirs and Assigns for Ever, or forty Pounds, Proc'l., my 
Son Matthew haveing the Refuise, Then Samuell.

Item. I Give and Bequeath to Casewell Hassell, one Cow,
Calfe & Her Increase.

Item. I give and Bequeath to my well Beloved Wife, Eliza-
beth Casewell, One Third part of all my personall Estate, The
Remainder to be Equily Devided between my Children, to
be Divided at the Descresion of my Exrs.

Item. I make, Constitute and Ordain my Beloved Wife,
Elizabeth Casewell, Executrix, and my beloved Father in Law,
Samuell Spruill, and my Son, Matthew Casewell, Exrs. of this
my Last will & Testament, Utterly (Disannuling all other)
Allowing this and no Other to be my last Will and Testament. 
 
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal, 
the Date above written.

                                 his
                        MATTHEW M C CASEWELL (Seal) 
                               Marke.

Signed, Sealed, published, pro- 
nounced and Declared by the sd. 
Matthew Casewell as his last Will 
and Testament, in the Presence 
of us:
      JOSHUA TURNER, Jurat. 
      ROBERT ELTON.
      EDWD. PHELPS.

NORTH CAROLINA, TYRREL COUNTY, SS. June Court, 1754, Present his
Majesty's Justices:

These may Certify that Joshua Turner, one of the Sibscribing Evidences 
to the within Will, came into Open Court and made Oath on the Holy 
Evangelists of Almighty God, That he Saw Matthew Casewell sign, seal, 
pronounce & Declare the within Writing to contain his last Will & Testa- 
ment; and at the same Time he saw Robert Elton, & Edward Phelps, 
sign their names as Evidences to the same. Then appeared Samuel 
Spruel & Mathew Caswell, Executors & Qualified themselves as Exec'rs., 
by taking the Oath as the Law in such Cases Directed.

Ordered That the Hon'ble James Murray, Esqr., Secretary of this 
Province have notice thereof, that Letters Testamentary Issue accordingly.

                                  Test. EVAN JONES, Cler. Cur.

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