Lenoir County NcArchives Wills.....Tull, John March 9, 1820
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Written: March 9, 1820
Recorded: October 18, 1820

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Lenoir County, NC
Will of John TULL
Written:9 March 1820
Probated: 18 October 1820.

Last Will & Testament of John TULLD, dec’d.
(Copy)
March 9, 1820

State of North Carolina

In the name of God, Amen, I, John TULL of the County of Lenoir and State aforesaid
knowing that it is appointed for all men Once to die do make an Ordain this my Last
Will and Testament in manner and form following attempt?
I lend to my well beloved wife Elizabeth TULL four negroes to wit: TONY, LEAH, JAMES
& PHILLIS and one Feather Bed and Furniture during her natural life and my will and
desire is that my wife live with either of my three children which ever she prefers
living with and the above named Negroes along with her in order to work for the
support and maintenance of her as long as shelves free of any Charge after her
decease. I Giver the above named Negroes bed and furniture to my three children
Elizabeth GRAHAM, Isaac & Henry TULL to be equally divided amongst them to each of
them their heirs and assigns forever.
Item 2nd: I give bequeath and devise to my well beloved daughter Elizabeth GRAHAM
wife of Chauncey GRAHAM my plantation lying on the South side of the YADKINS which
land I purchased of William CROOM and in her possession and the following negroes to
wit: MOLL, SIMON, ESTHER, BEN, FRANK, TUPER?, GAVE, JUDAH, RACHEL, SAM, LEWIS,
DENNIS, TONY & LEGE? And their Increase to her her heirs and assigns forever.
Item 3: I Give bequeath an devise to my well beloved son Isaac TULL the following
negroes to Wit: SAM, BOB, DANIEL, GEORGE, PHEBE, ROSE, TONEY, JESSE, DILL, SILAS,
AMY & their increase to him his heirs and assigns forever.
Item 4th: I lend to my beloved Daughter in Law Mary TULL my Dwelling House and other
out houses together with as much of any plantation adjoining as my Executors may
deem Sufficient for his fame also the following negroes to wit: EPHRAIM, JUNOR? &
RAIF during her Natural life or widowhood after her decease or Marriage the above
houses, lands and negroes: EPHRAIM, JUNOR and RAIF and their Increase, I Give to her
Daughter Sally Eliza TULL. I Give and bequeath to Mary TULL, two Feather Beds and
Furniture one horse called Snap Tow Mules, three Cows & Calves, three Sows and pigs,
Fifteen dry hogs, one bee hive, One years provision, half a dozen Chairs, One table,
one pair of And Irons, Two plows, two pair of traws?, Two axes, Tow welding hoes,
Two Iron Pots, one Nubbin hoe and one pair of Iron wedges, one case of knives &
forks to her, her heirs and assigns forever.
Item 5: I give bequeath and devise to my well beloved Grand Daughter Sally Elizabeth
TULL the plantation I now live on containing about one thousand acres also the
following negroes to wit: LONDON, DOLL, LITTLE, ELLECK, KITTY, MARGARET, NEEDHAM,
RICHARD, SUSAN & JOHN, they and their increases and Six Hundred dollars to be put on
Interest and to be Educated out of the Income of her property, and the lands and
negroes to be rented and hired out until she marries or arrives at legal age.
Item 6th: I give and bequeath to John and Robert COLLIER my Grand Sons, Twenty five
dollars each.
Item 7th: I give and bequeath to my three children: Elizabeth GRAHAM, Isaac & Henry
TULL the whole of my property, not herein before Given away or Intended to be Given
to be equally divided amongst them their heirs and assigns forever.
Item 8th: I will that if she the said Sally Eliza TULL dies before she married or
has a lawful begotten heir the whole of the property Given to her to be equally
divided amongst my three children Elizabeth GRAHAM, Isaac & Henry TULL to them their
heirs and assigns forever.
Lastly, I nominate Constitute and appoint my sons Isaac and Henry TULL, Executors to
this my Last Will and Testament Hereby revoking all former Wills by me made. In
Witness I hereunto set my hand and seal this Ninth of March One thousand eight
hundred and twenty.
John TULL (Seal)

Signed, sealed and published by the testator to be and contain his last will &
testament. In presence of:
Thos. CAMPBELL
Geo. P. LOVICK
Lewis C. DESMOND

State of N. Carolina
Lenoir County
October Court 1820
Then was the foregoing last will and testament of John TULL, Sent. Exhibited into
Court and proved by the Oath of Lewis C. DESMOND, one of the Subscribing Witnessed
thereto and Ordered to recorded at the same time Isaac TULL and Henry TULL the
Executors therein named appeared and Qualified, therefore, Letters Testamentary, Due
accordingly.
C. WESTBROOK, C.C.

I, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the Last Will and Testament
of John TULL, dec’d, Given under my hand at Kinston, the 18th October 1820.
C. WESTBOOK, C.C.


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