ANDERSON, GEORGE
July 6, 1757. March 7, 1758. Wife and Executrix: MARY. Daughter: EAVE ANDERSON. Brother: WILLIAM ANDERSON. Nephew: GEORGE ANDERSON (son of William). Other legatees: ELIZABETH and JOHN UNDERWOOD. Executor: OSBORNE JEFFREYS. Witnesses: JAMES BRAEZAR, WILLIAM ANDERSON, THOMAS SMITH. Clerk of the Court: DANIEL WELDON.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 7)

CROKER, ANTONY
July 28, 1754. September 3, 1754. Sons: THOMAS ("plantation whereon I now live" on Sandy Creek), ARTER ("plantation he now lives on"), JACOB. Executors: ARTER and JACOB CROKER (sons). Witnesses: JAMES
WHITE, EDWARD THOMAS, JOHN BRANTLY. Clerk of the Court: DAN'L WELDON.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 88)

DAVIS, THOMAS
August 20, 1754. March 7, 1758. Sons: JOHN. THOMAS, RUBIN and RICHARD. Daughter: MARY DAVIS. Wife and Executrix: ELISABETH. Executors: DANIEL UNDERWOOD, RICHARD PINNIL. Witnesses: JOHN GIBBS, THOS. COOK, THOMAS ZACEE. Clerk of the Court: DANIEL WELDON.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 95)

EATON, WILLIAM
February 19, 1759. March 20, 1759. Saint Johns Parish in the County of Granville. Sons: WILLIAM (lands in Dinwiddie and Brunswick counties in Virginia, except land received of William Scoggan), THOMAS, CHARLES RUST. Daughters: JANE, wife of COLO. NATHANIEL EDWARDS; ANNE HAYNES, relict of ANDREW HAYNES; MARY, wife of ROBERT JONES; SARAH, wife of CHARLES JOHNSON; ELIZABETH, wife of DANIEL WELDON; MARTHA EATON. Grandson: EATON HAYNES. Wife and Executrix: MARY. The following lands devised: plantation in Granville "whereon I now live"; land in Granville called Bowsers; land where LEWIS BALLARD and CORMELIAL EARLS live; land in Northampton called Cumboes; lots in the town of Halifax; land "where Granville Court house is built"; land on Tabbs Creek; lot in the town of Petersburg; land in Granville called Gould's; land on Little Fishing Creek called Youngs; land on Andersons Swamp; two tracts on Smiths Creek called Hughes and Rayborn's; lot in Halifax adjoining the Market place and Main street. A large number of negroes bequeathed , some being on plantations at Tabbs Creek and others on Mush Island . Witnesses: WM. PERSON, JAS. PAINE, RICHD. COLEMAN. Clerk of the Court: DANIEL WELDON.
 (Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 108)

JOHNSTON, GABRIEL, Governor of North Carolina
May 16, 1751. April 4, 1753. Wife: FRANCES (plantation called Possum Quarter in Granville County; plantation called Conahoe in Tyrrell and plantation in Bertie County on Salmon Creek). Daughter: PENELOPE JOHNSTON. Nephews: SAMUEL and JOHN JOHNSTON, HENRY JOHNSTON ("now at school at Newhaven in the Collony of Connecticut"). Sister: ELIZABETH SMEAR, of the County of Fife in North Britain. Executors: JOHNSTON and WILLIAM CATHCART. Witnesses: ANDREW LEAKE, SAMUEL ORMES, THOMAS WHITMELL. Proven before MATT. ROWAN. The following real estate devised: lands lying in Bertie, Northampton and Granville; 1,000 acres on Cypress Creek on the south side of Trent River; 980 acres on Trent River; 400 acres on the head of Trent and New Rivers; 7.000 acres on Deep River in Bladen County; all the small islands in Roanoke River in the neighbourhood of Mount Gallard. The following are items of interest: "And in case my wife shall choose to remain in North Carolina and reside upon the lands of and live with my daughter * * * my will is that she, my said wife, shall have the use of all my said daughter's plantations and for her encouragement to cultivate and improve these plantations, especially in raising silk, etc. * * * And I earnestly request my dearest wife to be a kind, tender mother to my dear little girl and to bring her up in the Fear of God and under a deep sense of her being always in his presence and in Sobriety and moderation confining her desires to things plain, neat and elegant, and especially to take care to keep within the bounds of her income and by no means to run in debt." " My books I leave to WILLIAM CATHCART after my wife and brother have choose out of them any number not exceeding forty each, To my sister ELIZABETH SMEAR my large gold watch * * * ." Original missing. Recorded in Book 1755-1758, page 153.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 187& 188)

LASHLY, PATRICK
November 28, 1758. March Court, 1759. Wife: LIDDA. Executor: PHILIP PRYOR. Witnesses: MOSES SPAN, CHRISTIAN LANGSTON. Clerk of the Court: DANIEL WELDON.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 208)

LYNCH, JOHN
August 31, 1753. March 7, 1758. Daughters: ELIZABETH and NELLY ("plantation whereon I now live"). Wife: ELIZABETH. Executors: JAMES JENKINS (son-in-law) and ROBERT BAKER. Witnesses: THOMAS PARKER, JOHN BLAKENEY and WILLIAM FROHOCK. Clerk of the Court: DANIEL WELDON.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 226)

STOVALL, JOHN
John Stovall: made June 12, 1820; probated Nov. 1820 Court. Among heirs, lists daughter Fannie Ligon and her children: Nancy, Mary, Fannie, Quincy, Susanna, and Phebe Ligon, to receive land in Mechlenberg County, Virginia; daughter Susanna Overby. WILL BOOK 8, PAGE 412.
[Data abstracted by Charles Hamlin, pub. in NSGS, Vol. 55, No. 1, March 1967 - Transcribed for Genealogy Trails by K. Torp]

THORNTON, John
November 10, 1754. September 2, 1755. Wife and Executrix: Sarah (three negroes). Son: Francis (lands in Granville). Daughter: Mary Thornton (lands in Virginia and Northampton County). Executor: Robert Jones, Jr. Witnesses: William Person, Mary Jordan, William Lankford. Clerk of the Court: Daniel Weldon.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 376)