I posted this a few minutes ago and had to make a couple of corrections. This is the corrected information. So sorry... Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Stocks" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 8:16 PM Subject: Henry Wingate vs Susan Harper & others Pitt County Estate Records C.R.079 508.31 Alexander Harper Folder State of North Carolina Pitt County Fall Term 1859 Henry Wingate vs Susan Harper and others September 7, 1859 Deposition of John Wooten of Lenoir County I wrote the will for said Alexander Harper which after Death was probated in Pitt County. Henry Wingate was designated executor. Annexed copy was copied from original will. Exhibit A Extract from Will of Alex. Harper I give and devise to my beloved wife Susan all my lands being on the south & west side of the Back Swamp including my dwelling house and all out houses, the said lands to be set out by metes and bounds so as to include my mantion house and all outhouses aforesaid together with all improvements to have and to hold to her the said Susan for and during the term of her natural life in satisfaction for and in lue of her dower and thirds of and in my real estate. I give and devise to my beloved wife Susan a negro woman Mary and her child Eveline to have and to hold for the term of her natural life. I also give her one boy Mose and red cow and calf and one black heifer one horse and a couple sows one black and the other blue. All which she is to hold for her natural life. One _____ tracs one weading how one horse and one plow all my kitchen furniture one bed and blue chess----all of which she is to hold for the term of her natural life. Exhibit A (Depositions will follow) >