Will of Cadwallader Jones Original Will, on file in Raleigh, NC Archives CR 073.801 In the name of God Amen - I Cadwallader Jones of the County of Orange & State of North Carolina do make & ordain this my last will & testament Viz [1] I give & bequeath the farm on which I live in the County aforesaid, to my dear Wife her heirs & assigns forever, toge- ther with all its appurtinances, the furniture in the house of every discpription, the place[?] included - the farm tools, the carriages & horses & every kind of stock, together with the crop on hand, to her heirs and assigns forever. [2] I give to my sons Cadwallader & Robin all my lands in South Carolina, to be divided [crossed out] between them, according to the line which has been or may be hereafter agreed upon by them - to them their heirs & assigns forever. [3] I give to my daughter Mary R. Ruffin the lot on which she lives in Hillsboro containing about six acres & the lot opposite on which one of her servants lives, to her her[sic] heirs & assigns forever. [4] I give & bequeath to my son ["sons Allen C. Jones" crossed out] Pride Jones ["Rebecca my wife" superscript] & my daughters Mary R. Ruffin & Sally R. Jones all my lands in the State of Alabama to be equally divided between them - to them their heirs & assigns forever - 5 I give to my dear Wife thirty thousand dollars in Money to be raised on the bonds I now hold as far as they will go towards [crossed out] it, the money due me from Mc Dowell & Wilkins of Mobile & the balance from the crop now being made in the Alabama plantation on the succeed ing crop should it be necessary, which I do not anticipate. It is my will & desire that the sd sum of $30-000- shall be invested by my executors in some safe monied in stitution, so that she may have no trouble in its manage ment - my expectation being that the interest will be suf ficient for her support in her usual style of living - this of course she will draw at her pleasure - Neverthe less I give her the sd sum of $30,000 to dispose of as she may think proper - [superscript: "or an equal number form my other negroes to fill up the voids by death.] 6th I give to my sd Wife the following negro slaves now liv- ing on my farm in Orange County, N.C. Viz Anthony, Jane Lucretia, Peter, Violet, Charlotte, Jimmy, Betsey, Hannah, James, Tom, Patty, Virgil, Betsey & Rufus, (Hannah's children) Hampton Landonia & her child, Margarett & Jinnes[?] to her, her heirs [page 2] and assigns forever, but in case she should prefer other servants to those above mentioned it is my will that she take any other from among my negroes of equal val- ue, at her pleasure 7th Having heretofore conveyed to my son Allen forty two negroes named in the deed of gift, to which reference can be had, I hereby confirm the same to him, his heirs & assigns forever 8th I give & bequeath to my son Cadwallader the following negroes, heretofore alloted to him Viz. Moses, Caroline Mariah, Shanper, Franky, Minerva, Herman, Lucretia, Herman jr., Milly, Adam, Nathan, Albert(son of Mark), Charles(of Ned), Martha, Syphax, Harriet, Martha Byron, Alfred, Peggy, Fred, Sarah, Charles, Cuba, Toynette - to him his heirs & assigns forever. 9th I give & bequeath to my son Pride ["Jones" sticken out], the following ne groes now in his possession Viz Bartlett, Hetty, Caesar, Man- -delbert, Randal, Peggy, Becky, Ananias, Rheta, to him his heirs & assigns forever. 10 I give & bequeath to my son Robin ["Jones" sticken out],the following negroes heretofore alloted to him Viz - Tom, Agury, Albert, Mary Ann, Mariah, Godfrey, Boby, Gamba, Albert, (of Jamimey) Chancy, Isaac, Litgreaves, Washington, Frank, Ellen, Rosanna, Robin, Altamont, Janet, Fanny, Sophia, Polly, Will, Boatswain, Janet, Hercules, Emdine, Hilliard, to him his heirs & assigns forever. 11 I give & bequeath to my daughter Mary R. Ruffin the following negroes, heretofore alloted to her Viz- Lucy, Jane, Virginia, Diana & child, Prinnces, Henry Howerton, Henry Duberry & Fred to her her heirs & assigns forever - 12 I give & bequeath to my daughter Sally her maid servant Kate & Louisa & her husband & children, to her her heirs & assigns forever - Having always told Sally that she should have Hannah & her family & think -ing that her mother cant conveniently do without the ser- -vices of ["Hannahs" sticken out] said family, I have provided in the sixth clause of my this will that any of the negroes bequeathed in it may be exchanged for negroes of equal value. It is my will & earnest desire that Hannahs family, shall, whenever my wife consents to an exchange, be exchanged for a portion of the negroes to be alloted to Sally in the final distribution of my negro property - [page 3] & that if she should not consent at all, she will take care to make my promise to Sally good, when she distributes her own estate. 13th It is my will that the negroes not otherwise dis- posed of shall be divided among my children in such way as to make their respective shares of that kind of property as nearly equal as may be, for which pur- -pose the negroes heretofore given to Allen & those now speci- -fically devised to my other children together with their increase, are to be enummerated & valued in like man- -ner as the undivided must be for a division & each child except Allen is to take a portion which added to the portion specifically devised to each as above, shall make it equal ["those heretofore given" crossed out] to Allens ["s" added later], which is the the largest - & the remainder to be equally divided among all of them Allen included. 14 I did promise to Mary, the wife of my son Pride, on her death bed, that I would take care of her children - & have so far endeavoured to do so - Now in order to carry out the promise fully - It is my will & desire that one half of the negroes, which, by the foregoing clauses of this my last will & testament have been ["alloted" crossed out] given to my said son Pride are to be held by him in trust & confidence [crossed out] for the children of the said Mary, he having the full use & benefit of ["them" crossed out] the negroes during his life & at his death, to descend to the said children or the survi- -vers of them, to whom I give & bequeath them the sd Negroes, to them & to their descendants forever - 15 It is my wish that my Wife will so use and devise the estate I have left her, especially the Alabama property, as to help those of my children that may most need her assistance 15[sic] It is my will further that all property not otherwise disposed of, shall be divided between My sons Cadwallader Pride Robin and my daughters Mary & Sally I appoint my sons Allen, Cadwallader, Pride and Robin executors to this my last will and testament Witness Paul C. Cameron Cadr Jones (seal) Es. John Wick[?] Jurat Jas. F. Cain Jurat Transcription by Ben Franklin of Durham, NC 2 Dec 2009. Please credit me if you use this. This information is in the public domain. Transcriber's Notes: Unlike many wills of the era, this one includes many punctuation marks with relatively modern usage. It also includes many strike-outs and insertions written as superscripts. In some cases the writer's intention is less than clear. For the first page, it appears that the left quarter inch or so is cut off in my copy, which eliminates any hint of the first five item numbers that undoubtedly are found there. This is due to the fact that it has been properly conserved with edge binding tape, which can be read in person, but copies poorly. Therefore most of the numbers for that page which appear in my transcript are interpolated, thus the square brackets []. All other notes by me in the body of the transcript are also in square brackets [] You will note that some pages have blank lines between the paragraphs, others not. This mimics the various spacing used in the original. You will also note that he neglected to date the will, but it was recorded in 1861. 1870 North Carolina, Orange County, Hillsborough Twp, page 69, HH 286/286 Lucy Jones, 60f, black, keeping house, born NC; Landonia Jones, 45f, black, born NC; Godfrey Jones, 14m, black, born NC; Birk Jones, 12m, black, born NC; Anthony Jones, 10m, black, born NC; Junius Jones, 8m, black, born NC. Note: This family was distributed among the heirs. Lucy to Mary R. Ruffin Landonia "& her child" to Rebecca Jones Godfrey to Robin Birk = Mandelbert? to Pride This family lived near the (white) family of Pride Jones in 1870. 1870 North Carolina, Orange County, Hillsborough Twp, page 69, HH 287/287 Spoon Jones, 45m, black, born NC; Margaret Jones, 30f, black, born NC; Bettie Jones, 16f, black, born NC; Rufus Jones, 12m, black, born NC; Prescilla Jones, 8f, black, born NC; Daniel Jones, 6m, black, born NC; Lizzie Jones, 4f, black, born NC; "Spoon" = "Boatswain" ? Betsey & Rufus, (Hannah's children) to Rebecca Jones 1870 South Carolina, York County, page 328, HH 1125/1138 Charles Long, 61m, black, born SC; Cuba Long, 65f, black, born NC; Living next door to Cadwallader Jones (b. 1813), son of the above testator. 1880 South Carolina, York County, page 517A, HH 1125/1138 Gamber Jones, 45m, black, laborer, born SC, Fa: SC, Mo: SC; Amy Jones, 40f, black, cook, at school, born SC, Fa: SC, Mo: SC; Cads Jones, 9m, black, born SC, Fa: SC, Mo: SC; Allen Jones, 7m, black, born SC, Fa: SC, Mo: SC; Catch Jones, 5m, black, born SC, Fa: SC, Mo: SC; Alic Jones, 3m, black, born SC, Fa: SC, Mo: SC; Henry Jones, 1m, black, born SC, Fa: SC, Mo: SC; Thomas Grimes, 28m, black, born SC, Fa: SC, Mo: SC; 1870 South Carolina, York County, page 329, Attaman Jones, 50 Jannett Jones, 49 Attaman Jones, 20 William Jones, 18 Bosam Jones, 15 Peter Jones, 12 Hammond Jones, 10 Rocinda Jones, 26 Sophy Jones, 27 Mary Jones, 24 Betsy Jones, 13 Betty Jones, 4 Jennie Jones, 6/12 Note: Cadwallader Jones is on page 328.