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AMBROSE BURFOOT (1824 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
December 31, 1823
In the name of God Amen, I AMBROSE BURFOOT of the County of Camden & State of N. Carolina, being weak of body but of perfect sound mind and memory thanks be given unto God, and calling unto mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die. I do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament, disannulling all other wills heretofore by me made—which I give and dispose in manner and form as follows.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my dearly Beloved Daughter POLLY SAWYER that tract of land that I bought JOSEPH NEEDHAM containing about thirty seven acres to her & her heirs lawfully begotten of her body forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved Daughter LYDIA WILLIAMS that tract of land that I bought of JOHN G. WRIGHT containing about fifty acres to her & her heirs lawfully begotten of her body forever.
Item. I lend the use of the land and plantation whereon I now live also a small tract of land that I bought of PRUDENCE OGGS unto my dearly beloved Wife ALAF BURFOOT, also two cows & calves her choice, one mare by the name of Gin, two feather beds & furniture her choice, two linen wheels, one beaufat & crockery in it, once chest, and all the kitchen furniture until death or marriage and at death or marriage as hereafter named, its further my will that my Wife ALAF BURFOOT should have one sow & piggs, five barrows, choice, also four head of sheep choice.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my dearly beloved Son ROBERT BURFOOT, the Mill Dam tract of land containing about fifty acres, one saddle, & sixty dollars in good notes for the purpose of purchasing a horse to him & his heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my dearly beloved Son JABEZ BURFOOT all the land that I now hold on the Great Island to him & his heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my dearly beloved Son JOHN BURFOOT that tract of land in Sandy Hook containing sixty acres to him & his heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever.
Item. Its further my will that my two dearly beloved Sons WILLIS BURFOOT & WILLIAM BURFOOT at my Wife’s death or marriage should have the plantation I now live on also a small tract I bought of PRUDENCE OGGS equally divided between them to them and their heirs lawfully begotten of their body forever.
Item. Its further my will that the house and lot down the river should sold on a credit of twelve months also negro Jupiter & negro Robert should be sold on the above named credit, and the residue of my estate consisting of stock and house hould furniture etc. should be sold in a credit of six months.
Item. Its further my will that after paying all my just debts and lawful expences that theres due of my estate should be equally divided between my five Sons, ROBERT BURFOOT, JABEZ BURFOOT, JOHN BURFOOT, WILLIS BURFOOT,WILLIAM BURFOOT, to them & their heirs lawfully begotten of their bodies forever.
Lastly of all I appoint & dinominate my faithful and trusty friends SILAS FORBES and ROBERT BURFOOT to be my whole & sole Executors this 31st. day of December 1823.
AMBROSE BURFOOT seal
His x mark
Signed, Sealed, and acknowledged
In presence of us
Test.
THOMAS SQUIRES
ASA CARTRUT
State of North Carolina
Camden County
February T. 1824
This Last Will and Testament of AMBROSE BURFOOT dec’d was exhibited & proved in open Court by the oath of THOMAS SQUIRES a subscribing witness—–SILAS FORBES one of the Executors therin named appeared & qualified according to law. Ordered to be Recorded
Test.
M.S. LEWIS CLK.
Will Book C
Pages 29, 30
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WRIGHT 1782 Tax List
Wright Family
Camden County, N C Created: 1777 From: Pasquotank
1782 Tax List – Camden Co, NC
WRIGHT, Augustin B, Of Lot
WRIGHT, Barnaba
WRIGHT, Charles
WRIGHT, Cornelius
WRIGHT, Gamiel
WRIGHT, John
WRIGHT, Lott B, Of August.
WRIGHT, Mathias
WRIGHT, Peter
WRIGHT, William
WRIGHT, William
WRIGHT, William Sr.
SALLY SANDERLIN (1823 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
December 11, 1822
In the name of God Amen ! I SALLY SANDERLIN of the County of Camden & State of N. Carolina, being sick & weak in body, but of sound mind & memory thanks be to God for the same, do this Eleventh day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred & Twenty Two, make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament in manner & form following that is to say.
Item. I give & bequeath to my Daughter POLLY SANDERLIN one trunk to her & her heirs forever.
Item. I leave all the remainder of my estate within & without to be sold on six months credit and after paying my just debts & the remainder to be equally divided between my five children that is to say ISAAC SANDERLIN & BETSY SANDERLIN & CALEB SANDERLIN Son of my Husband FERBY SANDERLIN dec’d POLLY SANDERLIN, WELTHY SANDERLIN BRITTANIA SANDERLIN to have an equal share with my five children as above named.
Lastly I appoint my friend CORNELIUS WRIGHT my Executor to this my Last Will & Testament disanulling all others before this made & acknowledging this to be my Last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year above written.
SALLY SANDERLIN seal
Her x mark
Sealed, signed, published & declared
By the testator to be her Last
Will & Testament in presence of us
JOSE BURGESS
ABIGAL FORBES
Her x mark
LEDY GODFREY
Her x mark
ELIZABETH GRIFFIN
Her x mark
Camden County Court
May Term 1823
This was exhibited in open Court & proved as the Last Will & Testament of SALLY SANDERLIN by the oath of JOSE BURGES a subscribing witness thereto—-and CORNELIUS WRIGHT an Executor therein named appeared & qualified by taking the oath prescribed by law. Ordered to be recorded.
Test.
M.S. LEWIS CLK.
Will Book C
Page 21
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JOHN TORKSEY (1747 Will)
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
November 10, 1745
In the name of God Amen I JOHN TORKSEY of Pasquotank County in the Province of North Carolina being sickly and weak of body but of perfet mind and memory thanks be given unto God for it calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is apinted for all men to die do mak and ordain this my Last Will and Testement that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul in to the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried at the descration of my executers and as tuching such worldly estate whore with it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I dispose of in the following manner and form—–
Itom. I give and bequith to my well beloved THOMAS TORKSEY one negro man named Bossen and eight burels of pork thet he owes me and one feather bed to him and his heirs for ever.
Itom. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son BENJAMAN TORKSEY the plentation that I now live on and all the land thar unto belonging and one feather bed to him and his heirs for ever.
Itom. I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Daughters ELIZABETH and SUSANE — negros if there be to many of my negro woman named Jeane with ??? self and her two childern Pegg and Wappen and thare encrease betwn this and tim of delivery and if not to memey what there is liven at the time and if thare be more then fore of the sead negros my said Dafters to have which fore thay please to them and hares lawfull begotten of thare one bodys and if my childern that are liven and my will and desire is that shall not recive thare said negros nor devide them tel such time my youngest Dafter SUSANE arrives to the age of eighteen years or the day of marrye only my will and desir is that my Daughter ELIAZBETH shall have the use of the sd. negro garl Pegg at the day of marrye tel the time of devition then to be equelly devided between them likewise I give and bequeath my two Daughters each of them a good ??? furniture and a stone jugg at the day of mariage likewise my will and desir is that if ?? are be a negro or negros of the sd. Jeane and her childern and theire in creese then the fore apinted for my two Daughters to be equilly devided between my two Sons THOMAS and BENJAM and the rest of my estate to be equally divided among my four childern above named likwise I constitute make and ordain my two Sons above named my hole and sole Executere of this my Last Will and Testement and I do utterly dissalow ?????(to dark) testament heretofore as witness my hand and seal above written
JOHN TORKSEY
His “E” Mark
(the E is backwards)
sined sealed and acknowledge
in presents of us
A BURGES
JOHN WRIGHT
His Mark
ABASANA PURKENS
His Mark
North Carolina
Pasquotank County
April Court Anno Dom 1747
Present His Majesties Justices
There may ???? Wm. Burgess(?) Wright(?) two subscribing Evidones to the within Will appared in Opon Court and made Oath upon Holy Evangelist that they ware presant and saw JOHN TORKSEY sign seal publish (too dark) to be his Last Will & Testament, and that the said JOHN TORKSEY was at said time of sound disposing memory and that they also saw Abasana Perkins the other subscribing ??? sign his name thereto at the same time.Then also approved BENJAMIN TORKSEY Executor and took the Oath appointed for his qualification & ordered (too dark) Honorable N. ????? Esq. Secretary —– Notice that letters may issue
Witness Thomas Taylor Clerk of County Court at Broomfwtosthe (Broomfield?)
Thos. Taylor Clerk
5th day of July 1747
Copied from NC State Archives
Probate of Wills
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1840 Census listing for E. WRIGHT
1840 Census Camden Co NC
Name Males Females
0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60+
to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to
5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60
Emariah Wright 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Levi Wright 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Charles Wright 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Demsey Wright 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Lot Wright 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Mary Wright 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1
Tamer Wright 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
W Wright 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0
G W Wright 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Jacha Wright 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
Meddy Wright 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Ceder Wright 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Nathaniel Wright 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1830 Census listing for C. WRIGHT
1830 Census Camden Co NC
PG Name Males Females
0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 + 0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 +
to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to
5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60
366 WRIGHT Cornelius 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 1 0 0
366 WRIGHT Henry 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
367 WRIGHT John H 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
370 WRIGHT Benjamin 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
370 WRIGHT John 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
370 WRIGHT Mathias 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1
370 WRIGHT Samuel 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0
375 WRIGHT, William 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
376 WRIGHT Elizabeth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0
377 WRIGHT Charles 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
377 Wright, Elizabeth 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0
377 WRIGHT Polly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
379 WRIGHT Lydia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
379 WRIGHT Willoughby 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
1820 Census listing for Gameal Wright
1820 Census Camden County, N C
PG NAME Males Females
0 10 16 16 26 45 0 10 16 26 45
to to to to to + to to to to +
10 16 18 26 45 10 16 26 45
20 WRIGHT, Gameal 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
20 WRIGHT, John 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
20 WRIGHT, Benjamin 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
20 WRIGHT, John H 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0
20 WRIGHT, Matthews 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1
20 WRIGHT, Polly 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0
27 WRIGHT, Francis 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
28 WRIGHT, Levi 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0
28 WRIGHT, William 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 1
29 WRIGHT, Nancy 1 1 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 1 0
29 WRIGHT, Peggy 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0
29 WRIGHT, Thomas 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 WRIGHT, Polly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0
31 WRIGHT, Charles 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
31 WRIGHT, Cornelius 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 0
34 WRIGHT, Arthur 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 0
34 WRIGHT, Cornelius 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0
1810 Census listing for WRIGHT
1810 Census Camden County, N C
PG NAME MALES FEMALES
0 10 16 26 45 0 10 16 26 45
to to to to + to to to to +
10 16 26 45 10 16 26 45
152 WRIGHT, M 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 1
152 WRIGHT, O 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0
153 WRIGHT, A 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 0
154 WRIGHT, M 2 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 0
155 WRIGHT, B 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
155 WRIGHT, E 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
155 WRIGHT, L 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 0
155 WRIGHT, T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
155 WRIGHT, B 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0
156 WRIGHT, A 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
156 WRIGHT, C 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
156 WRIGHT, C 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
156 WRIGHT, M P 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0
156 WRIGHT, P 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0
156 WRIGHT, S 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0
156 WRIGHT, W 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
157 WRIGHT, J 2 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 0
159 WRIGHT, W 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
160 WRIGHT, H 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1
160 WRIGHT, J, Jr 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0
160 WRIGHT, J, Sr 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
160 WRIGHT, L 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
162 WRIGHT, B 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0