John S Winslow, Jr.

Will of John S. Winslow

   PERQUIMAS CO NC WILL BOOK F PAGE 222 FOR 1833

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENT SHALL COME, KNOW YE THAT I JOHN WINSLOW OF THE COUNTY OF PERQUIMANS AND STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, BEING WEAK IN BODY BUT IN PERFECT MEMORY AND OF GOOD DISPOSING MIND AND KNOWING THE UNCERTAINTY OF TIME, DO THINK FIT TO MAKE AND ORDAIN THIS AS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM AS FOLLOWETH.........
IT IS MY WILL AND DESIRE THAT ALL MY JUST DEBTS AND FUNERAL EXPENCES BE IN DUE TIME DISCHARGED BY MY EXUCTORS HEREAFTER MENTIONED...........
I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON LANCELOT WINSLOW FIFTY ACRES LAND, THE SAID MORE OR LESS BEGINNING IN THE SWAMP AT A CYPRESS AND RUNING OUT TO A WHITE OAK AND FROM THENCE TO ANOTHER WHITE OAK AND FROM THENCE NEARLY A STRIGHT COURSE TO MY HEAD LINE AND ALSO ONE HAND MILL AND ONE HECKLE AND ONE CURRING KNIFE, TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER AND ALSO THE OTHER PART OF MY ESTATE THAT I HAVE POSSESSSED HIM WITH...
I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MKY DAUGHTER PHEREBEE GRIFFIN, TWO CHAIRS, ONE PEWTER DISH, TWO PEWTER PLATES AND ONE PAIR FIRE DOGS AND ALL OF THE OTHER PART OF MY ESTATE THAT I HAVE POSSESSED HER WITH TO HER AND HER HEIRS FOREVER....
I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY GRANDSON JAMES RIDDICK, SON OF MY DAUGHTER ATSHA DEC'T, TEN DOLLARS TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER,,,,,,
I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON ROBERT WINSLOW ALL THE REMAINDER PART OF MY LAND WHEREON I NOW LIVE AND ONE DESK, ONE BEAURIT AND ONE DOVETAILED CHEST, ONE MUSKET AND ONE STEEL GRAP AND THE REMAINDER PART OF MY ESTATE THAT I HAVE POSSESSED HIM WITH TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER....
I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON THOMAS W WINSLOW ALL OF MY LAND LYING IN THE FORK OF WHITES MILL POND AND ONE FEATHER BED AND FURNITURE AND ONE PAIR STEELYARDS AND ONE OX AND CART, ONE X BUT SAW AND ALL MY PLANTATION TOOLS. ONE GRINDSTONE AND ONE LARGE POT TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER...ALSO ONE WALNUT TABLE.....
I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY DAUGHTER CATHERINE WINSLOW ONE FEATHER BED AND FURNITURE, TWO LINEN WHEELS AND ONE CHEST, ONE POT AND ALL MY STOCK OF CATTLE AND ALL MY HOUSE HOGS AND ALL MY BEES THAT IS AT HOJME AND ONE POT TO HER AND HER HEIRS FOREVER...
I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON THOMAS W WINSLOW AND MY DAUGHTER CATHAERINE, ALL MY CORN FODDER, POTATOES, BACON AND LARD TO THEM AND THEIR HEIRS FOREVER...
ITHE REMAINDER PART OF MY ESTATE WHICH I HAVE NOT DISPOSED OF HERETOFORE, I LEAVE TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONGST MY CHILDREN THAT IS NOW LIVING...
AND LASTLY I NOMINATE AND APPOINT MY TWO SONS, LANCELOT WINSLOW AND THOMAS W WINSLOW EXECUTORS TO HAVE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT PERFORMED AND FULFILLED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE MEANING AND INTENT THEREOF RATEFYING AND CONFIRMING THIS TO BE MY LAST WILL AND NO OTHER. IN MANNER AFORESAID, IN WITNESS WHEREUNTO I DO SET MY HAND AND FIX MY SEAL IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1831 THE 23RD OF THE 12TH MONTH.
WITNESS JOHN WINSLOW (SEAL)
GEORGE WHITE/AFIRMED

   DANIEL his mark DELANA EXHIBATED AND PROVED IN OPEN COURT TERM 1833 AND LANCELOTT WINSLOW ONLY QUALIFYED AS EXECUTOR TESTA JOHN WOODBIK

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   U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943

   1790 United States Federal Census

   U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935

John S. Winslow will 1833