Will of NOAH FUTRAL 1864

Transcribed by Email to Melanie Kelly

Names Included: Noah Futrel
wife John Futrel, son
John Futrel, son's children
Gary Scott
Elijah Murrill Jr., Executor
Daniel Futral, Witness
John Hancock, Witness
Kawley (?) Cox
Note from Mary Westbrook-Drake: I think this is Kader Cox.

WILL OF NOAH FUTRAL

I, Noah Futral of the County of Onslow and State of North Carolina being of sound mind and memory, but being sick and week of body do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say:

1st That after my decease, my body shall be decently buried and that my funeral charges and just debts shall be paid by my executors hereinafter named.

2nd I send to my beloved wife during her natural life one bed and furniture, one hundred pounds of good bacon, one barrel of corn, one sow and four pigs, four plates and one dish, three knives and forks, three bottles, two bee hives, one spider, dinner pot, tea kettle, one serving tray, one wash tub, water pail and keler (?), one bushel of peas, one trunk and chest, two chairs, two gallons of honey, thirty pounds of lard, one pack of salt, two pounds cotton, one pork barrel, one ox, one smoothing iron, one white pitcher. And after her death I give the above named articles to my son John Futral's children.

3rd I give and bequeath to Gary Scott twenty pounds of good bacon and one shout(?).

4th I give and bequeath the balance of my property not disposed of to my son John Futral's children and I appoint Elijah Murrill Jr my executor to settle my business(?). March 5th 1864

Witness: Noah Futral's mark ( )
Daniel Futral
John Hancock

State of North Carolina Onslow County
Court of Pleas and Quarter Session
September Term

The subscribing witnesses discuss(?), being called and duly sworn deposeth and saith that Noah Feuteral, the within intestate, in their opinion, was not, at the time of signing the written instrument in sound mind, neither were they requested by said Feuteral to sign it, as his will therefore it is ordered that it be admitted to probate.

Kawey(?) Cox Chair(?) Justice

Transcribed by Melanie Kelley on January 10, 1999.