Wilkes Co., NC - Will: Charles Johnson ************************************************* Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************* File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Frank Edwards - frankedwards@frontiernet.net Item J#015 Copy of Charles Johnson's Will. Dated Wilkes Co, NC, 9 Dec 1816. Charles Johnson, Sr. Will Book 3, pp 220, 221, 222. Recorded May 1820. Hannah wife Israel Johnson son Permanes Johnson son Elizabeth Johnson Jarvis dau Jean Johnson Mize dau Ann Johnson Ball dau Lydia Johnson Sale dau Mary Johnson Stanley dau Lucy Johnson Ball dau Hannah Johnson Howard dau Charles Johnson Jr. son Robert Johnson son Joseph Johnson son Alice Johnson dau In the name of God Amen. I, Charles Johnson of Wilkes County and State of North Carolina, being of sound mind and memory knowing the uncertainty of this mortal life and the certainty of death, being desirous of settling my temporal business, do make this my last will and testament revoking all others by me made. I lend first to my dear loving wife Hanah Johnson during her life or widowhood all my land and plantation whereon I now live containing three hundred sixty- two and a half acres, the same to be at her disposel in settling my sons Israel & Permanes, when need for the same, at her marriage or decease, the aforesaid land. I give and bequeath to my above mentioned sons the aforesaid land, and I give to my son Isreal fifty acres of land lying on the head of Long Branch adjoining William Wilsons land, and I also give to my son Israel a small feather bed and such furniture as can be spared by his mother and one cow and calf, or a cow big with calf. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Jarvis five shillings, and I also give to my daughter Jean Mize five shillings, and I also give to my daughter Ann Ball five shillings, and I also give to my daughter Lyda Sale five shillings, and I give to my daughter Mary Stanley five shillings, and I also give to my daughter Lucy Ball five shillings, and I also give to my daughter Hanah Howard five shillings, and I give and bequeath to my son Charles Johnson five shillings, and I give to my son Robert Johnson five shillings, and I give to my son Joseph Johnson five shillings. And the reason for my doing is because I gave them their share of my estate heretofore when they left me, and the balance of my estate I lend to my dear loving wife Hanah Johnson during her life or widowhood, all the balance of my estate, I give to my son Permanes Johnson if he lives with his mother & takes care of her and his sister Alice and keeps the living together as well as he can, and if he should leave his mother and sister, then I do leave his mother to give him as much of my estate as I gave his brothers, if his mother can spare it without suffering, & if he will go away & will not live with her & take care of her & his sister Alice, my desire is that he should live with them, & if he will not, then if any of his brothers, or brothers inlaw will undertake to live with my dear wife and daughter Alice and take care of them & keep from suffering, and till the plantation and not waste the living, then I give them, that my son Permanes was to have had after my dear wife’s death. Here and as for my daughter Alice I leave her mother to give her as much of my living as I gave her sisters and fifty dollars in trade at her mothers decease to be paid by them that have the living after her mothers death. And lastly I do hereby nominate my wife Hanah Johnson, Executrix with my son Joseph Johnson my executors of this my last will and testament revoking all others by me made. In testimony hereof I Charles Johnson have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 9th day of December, 1816. s/ Charles Johnson Signed & sealed in presence of Robert Coleman & Charles Jarvis. NOTE: The above Will was typed in 1998 for John Dever Snellings, 154 Carl Pressley Road, Lexington, NC 27295. He wishes to know what happened to all these Johnson children.