Wayne County, NC - Will of Stanton Cox, 1857

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I Stanton Cox of the County of Wayne and State of North Carolina
Being of sound mind and memory but considering the uncertainty of my
earthly existence do make and declare this my last will and testament
in manner and form following that is to say

Item I give and devise to my beloved wife Sally Cox the land and 
plantation whereon I now live together with the appertances there unto
belonging except two peaces of land whitch I will endeavor to dissignate 
so as to be layed off from the others viz 
First piece beginning at a rock Willis Halls corner south of the meeting 
house then with the road nearby north to a small branch that croses the 
road just below the peach orchard & then turns to the cross fence that 
divides the mill field from the sand hill field then a straight line to 
the river bank
Second piece beginning in Thos Kennedys line in the run of the Sawpit 
Branch then down the various courses of said branch to a barge cyprus on 
the river bank Isaac H Coxes corner

Now therefore it is my will and desire that my beloved wife Sally Cox for 
and during her naturel life have a fee simple right to the ballance of 
said land & improvements during her natural life 

I give and bequeath to my beloved wife one buggy & harness three head 
of horis her chois four cows & calves & four head of young cattle her 
choice five sows 2 pigs & twenty shoats her choice, also one work steer
& two carts 2 wheels & all of my farming tools of every discripton & all
the gear also one years provision for herself and family say 2500 lb
of pork & two hundred lbs of lard & one tin stand oven & above what lard
comes out of the pork, and fifty lbls of good corn after the pork is 
fattened fifty bushels of wheet ten blade stacks of fodder her choice
half the shucks that comes of the crop two hundred lbs of brown sugar ten
gallons of molases fifty lbs of coffee all the honey on hand & the jars
that contain it one pickel jar one lb vinegar one loaf of sugar three lbs
peper two lb spice one lb of ginger all the soap & soap grease on hand one
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes ten bushels of sweet peas fifty lbs
of picked cotten all the poultry on hand

Item As regards my olds son Isaac H Cox I have given and divised heretofore
unto him a full shair of my estate for whitch he must be therewith content

Item I give and devise to my son Jesse J Cox all the land and plantation
whereon I now live except the lifetime of my wife together with the peace
that I layed off on the south end of my land to have and to hold with all
and singular the appertinances thereunto belonging in fee simple forever

Also I give and bequeath to my son Jesse J Cox one burrow also one eight
day clock two beds & furniture as his absolute property in fee simple
forever

Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Sophona P Cox two beds & furniture
forever

Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Ashsah R Cox two beds & furniture
forever

Item I give and bequeath to Elizabeth A Cox two beds & furniture forever

Item It is my will and desire that my executors herein after named sell
the land that I have taken of on the north end of my land in a former
clause of my will to the best advantage for my minor heirs

Item I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Sally Cox all of my house hold
& kitchen furniture except what I have heretofore given away and also to
have the care of the minor children beds & furniture untill they arive
to the age of twenty one years or marry

Item My will & desire is that all the residue of my estate after taking out
the devises and legacies above mentioned be sold and the debts owing to
me collected and after paying the expenses & the ballance to be equally
divided between my four daughters viz Sally W Perkins Sophrona P Cox
Ashsah R Cox & Elizabeth A Cox in equal proportions shar and shar alike 
to them & their heirs and assigns absolutely forever

And lastly I do hereby constitue and appoint my trusty friends Jesse
Coleman & Isaac H Cox my lawful executors to all intents and purposes to
execute this my last will and testament according to the true intent and
meaning of the same and every part & clause thereof hereby revoking and
declaring utterly void all other wills and testaments by me heretofore
made. In witness whereof I the said Stanton Cox do hereunto set my hand
and seal this the 19th day of 7th mo July 1855

Signed sealed published and declared by the      }  Stanton Cox {Seal}
said Stanton Cox to be his last will & testament }
in the presents of us who at his request & in    }
his presents do subscribe our names &            }
witnesses thereto                                }

David J Grantham
Ezekiel Perkins


Wayne County May Term 1857
The foregoing paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament
of Stanton Cox is offered for probate on the testimony of David J. Grantham
& Ezekiel Perkins the subscribing witnesses thereto and is duly proved and
admitted to probate & is ordered to be recorded. Whereupon Jesse Coleman &
Isaac H Cox the executors therein named are duly qualified
                                                  Benj Aycock  Clk


Source:
NC Archives & History
CR 103.801.4