Union County, NC - Will of Cullen Smith, 1858

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Will of Cullen Smith of Union Co. NC
 
In the name of god Amen
I Cullin Smith of the County of Union and state of North Carolina 
being of Sound mind and memory and Considering the uncertainty of 
this frail and transitiory life Do therefore make ordain publish 
and Declare this to be my last Will and testament that is to say 
First after all my lawful Debts are paid and Discharged the Residue 
of my Estate Real and personal I give and bequeath and Dispose of as 
follows Viz to my beloved Wife PATIENCE the land and appurtenances 
situated thereon known and Described as the home tract whereon I now 
live laying in the county of Union and state of nor carolina together 
with the house hold furniture and live Stock of Every Description now 
possed by me During the term of her Natural Life or widow hood and 
after her Death or marriage to belong to my son J E W Smith to my son 
B B Smith the farm on which he now lives Containing one hundred & 
seventy five acres more or less which he has a title of Warranty for 
the Same and to son Stephen Smith I give & bequeath one dollar To my 
grand son ANDREW J. Smith I give and bequeath one dollar to my grand 
son CULLIN J SASSER I give & bequeath one dollar And also I and bequeath 
to my Daughter ESTHER who intermarried with ELISHA Sasser and the heirs 
begotten of boddy the tract of land on which she now lives Containing 
fifty acres adjoining the Lands of J.C. Mullis C Brook and others And 
also to my grand Daughter PATIENCE A SASSER I give and bequeath one bed 
bedstead and furniture and to my Son J E W Smith I give and bequeath a 
certain tract of land adjoining the land of J C Mullis Enis Staten and 
others Containing Seventy two acres and My other Seventy two acre tract 
of land adjoining the Wm Hamilton Mill tract to be sold and Equally 
Divided between my Daughter DORCAS Who intermarried with Jesse Baucom 
and my and my grand Daughter Patience A. Sasser and their boddily heirs 
share and share alike like wise I make Constitute and appoint my Said 
Son J E W Smith to be my Executor of this my last will and testament 
here by Revoking all former wills by me made In Witness Whereof I 
hereunto subscribe my name and affix my Seal the twenty Second Day of 
february in the year of our lord one thousand Eightteen and fifty eight
                                              Cullin Smith {Seal}
 
The above written instrument was subscribed by the sd C Smith 
in our presents & acknowledged by him to Each of us and he at the 
same time published & Delivered the above instrument 
So Subscribed to be his last will & testament & we
at Testators Request & in his presents have signed our names
as witnesses hereto & written opposite our names
                                                 J. C. Mullis
                                                 Calvin Brooks
 
Notes:
1. The wife of Cullen Smith was Patience Boyet, daughter of Shadrack Boyet 
and Martha Langston of Wayne Co. NC. Patience, age 83, is listed with her 
son-in-law and daughter Elisha and Esther (Smith) Sasser in the 1860 Union
Co. NC census.. 
 
2. Cullen Smith appears to be the Cullington of Collington Smith of the 
Wayne Co. NC 1800 census and is the Cullen Smith there in the 1810 census.
 
3. Land records indicate Cullen Smith moved to Anson Co. NC by 1816 where he 
appears in census records of 1820, 1830, 1840. He next appears in the 1850 
Union Co. NC census by county formation. 
 
4. Source for the Will: Union Co. NC Wills CR.097.801.49 at the NC State 
Archives, Raleigh, NC

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