Tag: Etheridge
EDWIN B. KELLY (1857 Will)
Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse
Captain G.G. Luke’s Independent Company
LUKE LAMB (1822 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
Dec. 28, 1820
May 1822
In the name of God Amen! I LUKE LAMB of Camden County and the State of North Carolina being of sound mind & memory, blessed be to God do this 28th day of December 1820 make & publish this my Last Will and Testament in the manner following that is to say, I leave the use of the land that I bought of BUNT?, Gale, Ferebee, & Jinkins as I have divided it to my Daughter PEGGY ETHERIDGE for & during her natural life and no longer after her death I give the sd. land to the heirs of her own body begotten..
ITEM: I leave the use of the land I bought of Simons & Jarvis as I have divided it to my daughter LYDIA DOZIER during her natural life and no longer after her death I give the sd. Lands to the heirs of her own body.
ITEM: I leave the land that I bought of John Williams called Biges to my two Grand Children TULLY DOZIER & LOVEY McBRIDE to be equally divided when TULLY arrives to lawful age but if either should die non age the survivor shall inherit and I give the said lands after their death to the heirs of their own body but if they should leave no heirs of their own body I give the said lands to my own children that is then living.
ITEM: I leave the use of the land I bought of Noah Sawyer… Sawyer or Demsey Sawyer and part of the land I bought of Enoch Sawyer to my daughter CLOE HERRING during her natural life and no longer and after her death I give the said lands to the male heirs of her own body forever, and I give my right of the third of Iramans? Sawyer widows thirds to William Herring forever, and I leave my Daughter CLOE HERRING three negroes Moses, Joe, and Easter during her natural life & no longer & then to the heirs of her own body.
ITEM: I leave the use of the land bought of Robert & Griffith Gregory to my daughter SALLY DOZIER, as it is bounded by John Lamb and others during her natural life & no longer & then I give the said land to the male heirs of her own body, and I give my said Daughter one negro girl Dinah. I leave the use of the land bought of Abner Lamb on the west side of the Great Ditch to my daughter PHOEBE DOZIER during her natural life and no longer & then I give the said lands to the heirs of her own body lawfully begotten, and I leave the use of two negroes Lamb and Luke.
ITEM: I give to my son ABNER LAMB that part of the Lake land that joins Gideons heirs & CLOE HERRINGS from the canal to the backline & part of the Creek Swamp to the mill run, and three negroes, Robin, Isaac & Jemy my still & articles belonging to making of cyder and my wearing clothes.
ITEM: I give all the land I bought from Abner Lamb on the east side of the Great Ditch and five acres of the land I bought Godfrey binding Abner Lamb 50 acres that he bought at auction to my Grand Son ISAAC GREGORY.
ITEM: I give my grandson MARK GREGORY half the new survey on Aronouse Creek Swamp and the land I bought of Demsey Burgess to him & his heirs forever.
ITEM: I give to my granddaughter MARY GREGORY the two children that the wench I gave her before she died. I give my daughter POLLY FERREL two Negro men Timothy & George. I give GIDEON LAMB‘s two sons WILSON & GIDEON all the lake land that is not given & half the Creek Swamp to the run of the Mill forever. I leave the use of the Negro Reuben, Cloe & children and her Increase & the girl Cloe that I lately bought for my granddaughter, LUCY SPRUEL during her natural life & no longer, and at her death I give the said negroes to such children as she may have living at that time. But if my said Grand Daughter LUCY SPRUEL should die without child or children living at her death, I give the said negroes to my own children that may be living at that time. And I appoint my son ISAAC LAMB & his Executors guardians to my Grand child LUCY SPRUEL, with respect to the property given to her I am willing and agreed that BAILEY SPRUEL shall keep the said negroes in his possession free from charge for the same as long as my said Grand Daughter LUCY’s guardian hereby appointed shall think fit & no longer he the said Spruel supporting & educating my said Grand Child in the time & he the said Spruel shall under no pretence whatsoever remove the said negroes out of this County. And I hereby nominate my two Sons ISAAC LAMB & ABNER LAMB executors to this my Last Will & Testament the day and date above written.
Signed, Sealed & acknowledged to be the Last Will and Testament of the Testator.
LUKE LAMB Sen. (seal)
Acknowledged in the presence of us
As his last will
John Ferrell
Joseph Linton
John Chamberlain
His X mark
“My cash notes and my small property, that not given I give to my Sons ISAAC, JOHN LAMB & POLLY FERRELL, this is an addition to my Last Will
LUKE LAMB
Wrote by my own hand, the gift I gave George to my Daughter POLLY, I want him valued & put with her part & the balance to be given to her in notes & money.
These two additions were acknowledged before us as part of this Will.
John Ferell
Joseph Linton
James Chamberlain
His x mark
I LUKE LAMB not intending to revoke or alter any part of my Will otherwise as hereafter named, do make & publish this codicil as part of my Last Will & Testament.
I give my cash, notes & other small property not given away in the body of my will, but given to my said Sons ISAAC LAMB, JOHN LAMB and Daughter FERRILL share & share alike & my will is that the boy George given to my said Daughter POLLY FERRELL in the body of my will be valued at Four Hundred dollars & come into this division & be a part of her share & to make her share together with said valuation equal to the share of my Son ISAAC LAMB, or the share of my Son JOHN LAMB and it is also my will that Boy Sandy for which my Son ISAAC LAMB has a bill of sale be valued at Three Hundred dollars & be a part of his share in said division.
The money I sold the two negroes for say? The negroes I gave in the body of my will to Grand Daughter MARY GREGORY now PALMER I give to my executors forever in trust to be laid out in the purchase of real estate at their discretion to be conveyed the use to the said MARY PALMER during her natural life & no longer & the to the heirs lawfully begotten on her body forever. The sum is Five Hundred & Fifty dollars out of which my said executors to retain for their troubell in buying said land & making said conveyances.
Signed, Sealed & Acknowledged by me as a part of my Last Will and Testament the 28th day of March 1822.
LUKE LAMB seal
Signed sealed & acknowledged in presents of us
Joseph Brown
Willoughby Jones
Camden County Court May Term 1822
The foregoing was exhibited in open Court & proved as the Last Will & Testament of LUKE LAMB Sen. Dec’d. by the oaths of John Ferrell & Joseph Brown subscribing witneses thereto. And at the same time ISAAC LAMB & ABNER LAMB executors therein named appeared & qualified as executors thereto by taking the oath prescribed by law. Ordered to be recorded.
Test. M. L. Lewis clk.
Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse
THOMAS ETHERIDGE (1824 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
June 14, 1824
In the name of God Amen. I THOMAS ETHERIDGE of the State of North Carolina Camden County being very weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God, calling unto 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 give and recommend my soul into the hand of Almighty God that give it and my body I recommend to the earth, to be buried in decent christian burial, at the descretion of my Executor, 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 has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
I lend unto my beloved Wife CHLOE ETHERIDGE the plantation whereon I now live together with all the buildings thereon except the house that I moved up to my dwelling house which I give to my Son THOMAS ETHERIDGE but his Mother is to have the use of it until he comes with age or marries, also Twenty Thousand of my new ground and that to be rented out for his support, with the privilege of rail timber and fire wood raising of stock etc. Also I give my Wife my bay horse Bird and sorrel mare Floreelesh, one riding chair and harness, my set of tables, three feather beds & furniture, twelve setting chairs, one bureau, one blue chest one beaufat & all the crockery, all the table and tea spoons one loom and harness wasping bars and screw, one spining wheel & one woolen ditto, one iron pot, one tea kettle, one dutch oven, one creeper, one sow and pigs, ten head of hogs, two candlesticks all of the above articles her first choice, fifty barrels of corn, thirty bushels of wheat, twenty five ???? of coffee, one hundred weight of sugar, one set of knives and forks, my spring back bible, drseys hymn book and my watch, one small trunk, one pair pot tramels & 1 pair of pot hooks, two axes, two hoes her choice, one negro woman Phoebe, one man Joseph, two cows and calves the sheep that is now on hand, one horse cart and harness, one plough and harness all my fire dogs irons, one pair of tongs and shovel, all her choice, one hand mill, all the winder curtains, two meat tubs to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son JOHN ETHERIDGE ten dollars to him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son JOSIAH ETHERIDGE ten dollars to him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son SETH ETHERIDGE one hundred dollars to him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son WILLIS one hundred dollars to him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son WHITFIELD ETHERIDGE one hundred dollars to him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter POLLY ETHERIDGE the land and plantation on the North side of the road called the Casey Plantation, containing by estimation twenty one acres more or less, one bed and furniture, one wheel one green chest to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my ACHSAH ETHERIDGE one negro boy Demsey one feather bed and furniture, one wheel one chest to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Grand Daughter MIRIAM SMITHSON One Hundred dollars in full for her portion of my estate to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son THOMAS ETHERIDGE the land and plantation whereon I now live containing about seventy eight acres also my juniper swamp containing seventy eight acres formerly the property of JOSEPH JONES dec’d sold by a decree of the Court of equity and one colt by the name of Boxer to him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath the following negroes namely Penny, Peter, Mary, Aaron, James and Jemimah to be equally divided between my three Daughters namely HENRETTA, NARISSA and CHLOE, when the eldest arrives to the age of twenty one or either of them marries, then the said negroes and increase to be equally divided between the above said Daughters or any part of them surviving to them and their heirs forever.
Item. My will and desire is that all the remainder of my estate both real and personal that I have not already given away be sold at six months credit excepting my lands that to be sold in a credit of six, twelve and eighteen month credit, and after paying all of my lawful debts my desire is that the balance if any be equally divided between my five Sons namely JOHN, JOSIAH, SETH, WILLIS and WHITFIELD ETHERIDGE to them and their heirs forever.
And I also nominate and appoint my Brother RICHARD JARVIS my whole and sole Executor to this my Last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this the Fourteenth day of June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Four
THOMAS ETHERIDGE seal
Witness present
ISAAC M. HERRINGTON
JEREMIAH ETHERIDGE
Camden County Court
August Term 1824
This Last Will and Testament of THOMAS ETHERIDGE dec’d was exhibited and proved in open Court by the oaths of ISAAC M. HERRINGTON and JEREMIAH ETHERIDGE subscribing witnesses thereto. And RICHARD JARVIS the Executor therein named appeared and qualified according to Law. Ordered that the Will be recorded & letters Testamentary issue.
Test.
M.S. LEWIS CLK
By A.C. EHRINGHAUS
Will Book C
Pages 40-42
Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse
CALEB GRAY (1823 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
August 28, 1823
In the name of God Amen! I CALEB GRAY of the State of North Carolina, Camden County being of sound & perfect mind & memory blessed be God do this 28th day of August 1823. make & publish this my Last Will & Testament in manner following that is to say.
I leave the use of my maner plantation to my Loving Wife MEKEL GRAY during her natural life it being land whereon I now live containing forty three acres be the same more or less, binding on DEMSEY GREGORY’S, PETER FORBES heirs land and Deep Branch.
I also leave the use of all the remainder of my land to my loving Wife MEKEL GRAY during her widowhood or life for the supporting of my children. My will that the above land only half to be attended in a year in each tract & to be shifted every year.
I also leave the use of as much of my perishable estate as my Wife MEKEL GRAY needs for the supporting of my children during her widowhood or life & no longer.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my Son JOSHUA GRAY one tract of land I bought of THOMAS STAPLES formerly called the SIKES Tract containing twenty four & half acres be the same more or less binding JOHN FERRELL, WILLIAM ETHERIDGE, and JOHN BAMARY(?) (BARRARY?) and the heirs of JAMES GREGORY to him & his heirs forever and the said JOSHUA GRAY is to have posesion at the death or marriage of his Mother and the said JOSHUA GRAY is bound to pay unto my two Daughters POLLY & JEAN GRAY fifty dollars apiece for their interest in said land.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my Son BAILEY GRAY & my Daughter SUCKY GRAY one tract of land I bought of WILLIS UPTON to be equally divided between them beginning at the main road thence runing across the plantation so as to make an equal division of clear a land also beginning at main road thence across the plantation so as to make an equal division of cleared land, also beginning at main road thence running across the wood so as to make each hare an equal share to them & their heirs forever. The said BAILEY GRAY & SUCKY GRAY is gave posession of the said land when the said BAILEY GRAY comes to the age of twenty one years. Also the said BAILEY BRAY & SUCKY GRAY is bound to pay unto POLLY GRAY fifty dollars & JEAN GRAY fifty dollars for their interest in said land.
If my Wife MEKEL GRAY should die or marry before the said BAILEY GRAY should arrive at lawful age the rent of said land shall go to my two Daughters POLLY & JEAN GRAY.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my two Daughters POLLY & JEAN GRAY after the death or marriage of my Wife all the perishable part of my estate which my Wife held at that time. Also I give to my two Daughters POLLY & JEAN GRAY all the perishable part of my estate which my Wife MEKEL do not need at this time to them & their heirs forever. Also I give all my crop to POLLY & JEAN GRAY after taking out my Wife’s & family’s one year provisions, also my debts either due by notes or accts to them & their heirs forever. The above property to be sold on a credit of six months. If POLLY or JEAN should die under twenty one the survivor shall their legacies.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my Daughter SALLY GRAY one tract of land which I now live on that I bought of MALACHI W. BOUSHALL, binding DEMSEY GREGORY, PETER FORBES heirs & Deep Branch, containing forty three acres be the same more or less to her & her heirs forever.
And I hereby make & ordain my worth friend BAILEY BARCO Executor of this my Last Will & Testament in witness whereof I the said CALEB GRAY to this my Last Will & Testament set my hand & seal the day & year above written.
CALEB GRAY seal
Witness
JOSEPH CARTWRIGHT
THOMAS WALSTEN
His x mark
N. B. Also make & appoint my friend BAILEY BARCO Guardian to my children. August 28, 1823.
CALEB GRAY seal
JOSEPH CARTWRIGHT
THOMAS WALSTEN
His x mark
State of North Carolina
Camden County
November Term 1823
This Last Will & Testament of CALEB GRAY was exhibited and proved in open Court by the oath of JOSEPH CARTWRIGHT one of the subscribing witnesses, thereto at the same time BAILEY BARCO the executor therein named appeared & qualified according to law. Ordered to be Recorded.
Tests.
M. S. LEWIS CLK.
Will Book C
Pages 25-27
Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse
ETHERIDGE – FOREMAN – Marriage – April 27, 1868
Petersburg Daily Newspaper
Petersburg, VA
April 27, 1868
Married:
ETHERIDGE – FOREMAN – In Camden co., N.C., by the Rev. Mr. J.D. Berryman, on Thursday, the 15th instant. O.M. ETHERIDGE and Miss EUGENIA FOREMAN, all of Norfolk county.
THOMAS LAMB (1825 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
August 20, 1822
In the name of God Amen! I THOMAS LAMB being of sound and perfect memory, blessed be God do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following Thath is to say—–
Item. I give and bequeath to my Brother ISAAC LAMB the remainder of the plantation whereon I now live which I gave GIDEON LAMB a and for part of the same tract all joining his land to him and his heirs forever.
I also desire of my Brother ISAAC LAMB if Dina my cook should live longer than I, for him to give her four or five acres of the land that I gave him and build her a house thereon and give her her wheells and chards(?) and one years provisions.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Sister MARY FERRELL one negro girl named Tular
Item. I give and bequeath to my Brother JOHN LAMB the tract of land that I bought of NASH to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to SAMUEL ETHERIDGE Son of my Sister PEGGY ETHERIDGE a negro named Smith to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Nephew CORNELIUS LAMB Son of CORNELIUS LAMB a negro named Tom to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Sister MARY FERRELL’S Son MARK GREGORY one negro man named Mustasshee to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item I give and bequeath to my Nephew DEMPSEY GREGORY one negro man named March to him and heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Nephew ISAAC GREGORY one negro boy named Dorsey to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my four Nieces NANCY, PHEBEE, CLARKY and MARY my Sister MARY FERRELL’S Daughters all my real and personal estate except my boy Glascow after my just debts are paid and also the note which my Nephew HENRY N. LAMB gave to me for two hundred dollars and thirty nine and a half or two hundred thirty nine and a half dollars—— to them the aforesaid four Nieces, for ISAAC GREGORY to have the mannagement of the same and also to deal out the property to the aforesaid persons as he may think proper.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Nephew HENRY N. LAMB the note he gave me in part payment for ??? sum amounting to two hundred thirty nine dollars and fifty cents payable in promissory notes and also the land which I loaned(?) of him, to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Nephew JOHN FERRELL one negro boy call Glascow to him and his heirs and assigns forever.l
And I likewise nominate and appoint my two brothers ISAAC LAMB and JOHN LAMB Executors to this my Last Will and Testament This the 20th day of Agust 1822
THOMAS LAMB
Witnesses
HENRY N. LAMB
BALEY SPRUELL
State of North Carolina
Camden County
May Term 1825
This Last Will and Testament of THOS. LAMB dec’d was exhibited in open Court by JNO. LAMB the Executor thereof and it appearing that the issue Dem Savit Velnor(?) had been decided an favour of the Exrs. And devisers in the Superior Court Spring Term as appears by the record of the decision issued in the minute Docket of this Court, the same was proved in due form of law by H.N. LAMB the subscribing witness thereto and the hand writing of BALEY SPRUILL the other subscribing witness was proved in due form of law by H.N. LAMB and JAMES W. DUKE is appearing to the Court that the said BALEY SPRUELL being dead. Ordered that the said will be recorded and that letters testamentary issue. JOHN LAMB the Executor appeared in open Court and qualified as Exrs. To the said will in due form of law.
Test.
M.S. LEWIS CLK
Will Book C
Pages 51, 52
Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse
MALACHI SAWYER (1824 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
March 30, 1824
In the name of God Amen! I MALACHI SAWYER of the County of Camden and State of North Carolina, being sick, but of sound disposing mind and memory and having in mind that it is appointed unto all men to die, and being willing to dispose of my worlaly affairs do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say.
Item the first. I give & bequeath unto my beloved Wife SUSANNA SAWYER all of my negroes viz. boy March, Jerry, John, Miles, Rose and Jane to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I also give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife SUSANNA SAWYER one tract of land lying in said County bounded on the South and Westside by the lands of ISAAC LAMB and on the North & East by the lands of JOHN GRANDY being all of the land which I bought of NATHANIEL WILROY and that which I now live on to her & her heirs forever.
Item. I also give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife SUSANNA SAWYER one tract of land in said County near the Court House being all of the land which I bought of THOMAS BELL, bounded as follows on the East by the lands of ISAAC LAMB, on the West by THOMAS GORDON & on the N. by the main road & the walking lands, to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife SUSANNA SAWYER one tract of land lying about one half mile below Camden Court House on the W. side of the main road bounded as follows, on the West by the lands which belong to the heirs of JOHN WILROY and on the North by the lands which formerly belonged to CALEB PHILLIP’S and on the East by JOSEPH DOZIERS’ lands & the lands of ISAAC LAMB it being all of the tract which belonged to JOHN WATKINS to have & hold the same she and her heirs forever.
Item. I also give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife SUSANNA SAWYER a certain tract of land lying in Forty Pound Neck bounded as follows, bounded on the West by the lands of MARK UPTON, on the North by the lands of HENRY AYDELETT’S heirs, on the East by the lands of THOMAS ETHERIDGE and on the South by the lands which belong to the heirs of JOHN GREAVES being by estimation Seventeen & three quarters of acres which formerly belonged to the estate of JOHN WADKINS to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I also give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife SUSANNA SAWYER after paying of all my just debts all the residue of my estate of every kind & nature whatsoever to her and her heirs forever.
Lastly. I hereby nominate and appoint my Wife SUSANNA SAWYER whole and sole Executrix to this my Last Will and Testament revoking all other wills and Publishing this and this only to be my true Last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this the 30th day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred & Twenty Four. 1824
MALACHI SAWYER seal
Signed, sealed and acknowledged
By the Testator as his Last Will in
Our presents
JOSIAH EARLE
SILAS O. NORRIS
MARY NORRIS
Camden County
May Term 1824
This Last Will and Testament of MALACHI SAWYER dec’d was exhibited and proved in open Court by the oath of SILAS O. NORRIS one of the subscribing witness thereto SUSANNAH SAWYER the Executrix therein named appeared & qualified according to law. Ordered that the Will be recorded & that letters testamentary issue
Test.
M.S. LEWIS CLK
By A.C. OHRINGHAUS
Will Book C
Pages 31-33
Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse
DOZIER Family Bible (WILLIS DOZIER born 1834)
Source: Year Book – Volume 4 – Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Compiled and Edited by Edna M. Shannonhouse (1983).