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JAMES B. PRITCHARD (1883 Will)

The Last Will and Testament of

JAMES B. PRITCHARD

March 23, 1883-May 9, 1883

 

In the name of God Amen.

I JAMES B. PRITCHARD being at this time of sound and disposing mind and memory do make publish and declare the following to be my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and annulling all others heretofore made by me.

First: I give to my Wife LOUISA for and during the period of her natural life, all my personal and real estate of whatever kind and description.

Second: I give and bequeath to my Daughter POLLY and my Son JAMES all my personal property household and kitchen furniture that maybe remaining after the death of my Wife LOUISA.

Third: I give and bequeath to my Son JAMES after the death of my Wife LOUISA , the tract of land whereon I now reside together with a tract of land which I purchased of Ephraim Harris and Timothy Black and is known as the “Clark Land”

Fourth: I give and bequeath to my Daughter POLLY after the death of my Wife LOUISA the tract of land known as the “Sexton Land” said to contain about Thirty Two acres.

Fifth: I give to my Grandson BERTRAM PRITCHARD after the death of my Wife LOUISA, the tract of land in Perquimans County lying on the Cove Road and known as the “Gilbert Land” and said to contain Forty Nine and One Half acres.

Sixth: I give and bequeath to my Grand children ANNA E. PERRY and LAURA PERRY the sum of Ten dollars each, to be paid in the following manner Ten Dollar to ANNA E. PERRY by my Daughter POLLY and Ten dollars to LAURA PERRY by my Son JAMES.

Seventh: I give to my Daughter HARRIET ANN MILLER the sum of Three Hundred Dollars to be paid in the following manner: One Hundred Dollars by my Daughter POLLY and Two Hundred Dollars to be paid by my Son JAMES.

Eighth: I hereby nominate and appoint my Son JAMES PRITCHARD to be executor of this my Last Will and Testament, This March 23, 1883.

                                                                            JAMES B. PRITCHARD

Signed in the presence of and at the request of JAMES B. PRITCHARD whose name appears above and also in the presence of each other.

ARTHUR PRITCHARD

W.F. PRITCHARD 

State of North Carolina

Pasquotank County

In the Probate Court

  A paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of JAMES B. PRITCHARD deceased is exhibited before me the undersigned Judge of Probate for said County, by LOUISA PRITCHARD widow, of the said deceased and the due execution thereof proven on oath & examination of Arthur Pritchard and W.F. Pritchard, the subscribing witnesses thereof who being duly sworn doth depose and say and each for himself saith that he is a subscribing witness to the paper writing now shown him purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of JAMES B. PRITCHARD that the said JAMES B. PRITCHARD, in the presence of these deponents subscribed his name at the end of the same paper writing which is now shown as aforesaid, and which be on date of the 23rd day of March 1883. And the deponent further saith that at the time when said testator subscribed his name to the said Last Will as aforesaid and at the time of the deponents subscribing his name as an attesting witness thereto as aforesaid the said JAMES B. PRITCHARD was of sound mind and memory, of full age to execute a Will, and was not under any restraint to the knowledge information or belief of this deponent.

And further then deponents say that the executor named in said Will and the 8th clause thereof is not of full age, being only about Sixteen years old.

Arthur Pritchard  seal

W.F. Pritchard  seal

Severally sworn and subscribed

This 9th day of May 1883.

J.P. Overman

Judge of Probate

Now therefore it is considered that the said paper writing is proven in due form of law, and it is adjudged that the same and every part thereof is the Last Will and Testament of JAMES B. PRITCHARD deceased, and it is ordered that the same be recorded

J.P. Overman

Judge of Probate  

Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse

(Transcribed as written, including errors in spelling and grammar.)

 

CLARK GENEALOGY By J. N. Keesling (1928)

 

Source: North Carolina Bible Records – Compiled by Wilma Cartwright Spence and Edna Morrisette Shannonhouse (1973).

 

NEGLECTED RECORDS By Walter Pool Wood

Source: Year Book – Volume 2 – Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, N.C.
Edited by John Elliott Wood (1958). 

JESSE CARTWRIGHT (b. 1877) Family Bible

JESSE CARTWRIGHT

Bible

Now in Possession

of

Mrs. Hazel Cartwright Harris

Route 4, Elizabeth City, N.C.

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Self pronouncing edition, Johnson’s Combination Family Bible, containing, The King James and The Revised Versions of the Old and New Testaments, by Edward Leigh Pell, D.  D.  Richmond Va. B. F. Johnson Publishing Company.

This is to certify that: Mr. Jesse Cartwright and Miss Fannie White were united in the Bonds of Matrymony at the Court House in Elizabeth City, N.C. 13th day of December in the year of our Lord 1900, in the presence of Tran Culpepper and J. C. Spence, Sr.

Jesse Cartwright the son of Benoni Cartwright and Isadora Bright his wife was born in 15 August 1877 and died 3 August 1960. Buried on Union Church Yard.

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Births:

  • Clarence George Cartwright the son of Jesse Cartwright and Fannie White Cartwright his wife was born to 21 November 1901. Married Maude Bateman 28 Feb. 1925.
  • Leon Milton Cartwright the son of Jesse Cartwright and Fannie his wife was born 11 February 1903.  Married Mildred Alma Miller 3 August 1922.
  • Hazel Lurendia Cartwright the daughter of Jesse Cartwright and Fannie his wife was born 16 July 1906.  Married Rufus Harris 30 December 1922.
  • Andrew Lutrell Cartwright the son of Jesse Cartwright and Fannie his wife was born 30 May 1914.  Married Carrie Newbern (Wid.) Meads 27 March 1945.
  • Fannie White that daughter of John White and Lurendia Palmer White his wife was born 4 April 1883.  Two
  • Jesse Cartwright died 3 August 1960.
  • Andrew Lutrell “Dick” Cartwright died 14 August 1973.  Funeral in Union Methodist Church.  Buried in Westlawn Cemetery Elizabeth City, N.C.
  • Daphney Hunter the daughter of Winfred and Ivia Mae Cartwright Hunter was born July 1968.
  • Janet Capps the daughter of Russell Capps, Jr.  and Evelyn Cartwright Capps was born February 1950.
  • Charles Capps the son of Russel Capps, Jr., and Evelyn Cartwright Capps his wife was born 18 January 1952.
  • Suzanne Capps the daughter of Russell Capps, Jr.  and Evelyn Cartwright Capps his wife was born 2 October 1959.
  • Charles Capps married Linda Hundley July 1971.
  • Ernest Michael Cartwright the son of Ernest Fleetwood and Joyce Loflin Cartwright his wife was born 2 April 1960.
  • Randal Wayne Cartwright the son of Ernest Fleetwood and Joyce Loflin Cartwright was born 8 June 1961.
  • Christopher David Cartwright the son of Ernest Fleetwood and Joyce Loflin Cartwright his wife was born 24 July 1962.
  • Eddie Dean Cartwright the son of Ernest Fleetwood and Joyce Loflin Cartwright his wife was born 28 July 1971.

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  • Curtis Jeremiah Cartwright the son of Jeremiah Cartwright and Lucy Whedbee Cartwright his wife died 14 August 1973.
  • Charles Franklin Cartwright died 24 April 1947.
  • Jeremiah Cartwright died 2 April 1940.
  • Lucy Mae Whedbee Cartwright Lowry died for June 1952.

Source: North Carolina Bible Records – Compiled by Wilma Cartwright Spence and Edna Morrisette Shannonhouse (1973).