This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/6876.2.1 Message Board Post: I just returned to IN from vacation, which included a trip to the Davidson Co courthouse in Lexington. I have a copy of a will of one William Robeson, Bk 1, pg. 393-4, written June 21, 1842: leaves land on E side of Abbott's Cr to son William, with a piece on the W side of the creek as well, below the Salisbury road on the E side of Wm. Teague's tract, providing he allow his three sisters Susannah, Phoebe, and Martha to live there with him and he provide for them as long as they remain single or want to stay; also leaves to son William tools (one bar plane, 2 shovels, 1 bull congree/congue, 1 harrow) and his corn & oats crops, 1 single tree, 1 wagon & his choice of two sets of gears, 4 head cattle (he'd already rec'd), three head sheep, all the hogs, all the carpenter's tools, 1 bed & furniture; gives to his three daughters Susannah Robeson, Phobe Robeson, and Martha Robeson each 1 cow & calf and 1 bed and furniture each, 1 bureau each,, all the cupboard furniture, 1 pot, 1 ! pan, 1 oven, 1 teakettle, a set of knives & forks apiece, and each of them a [spinning] wheel to be furnished by his executor, and each to have $50 cash; devises that the rest of the land on the W side of Abbott's Cr. not part of the aforementioned homestead and all other property not already devised be sold and the money to be equally divided between all of his children, to wit: David Robeson Isaac Robeson James Robeson William Robeson Jr. Elizabeth Green, w/o Jesse Green Sarah Davis, w/o Joseph Davis**** my interest Susannah Robeson Phobe Robeson Matha Robeson Son William Jr. named executor, witnesses William Raper Jr. & Moses Evans Hope this is helpful to you. Hope you can help me out with this Robeson family, especially dau Sarah Davis. My line is the William and Leah Smith Davis family of the Abbott's Creek area-Leah is buried in the Abbott's Cr. Primitive Baptist Cemetery. First born son Joseph is my ancestor, he married Mary Harris Chipman and then a second wife believed to be named Sarah as that's who's buried next to him in the Jonesville Cemetery, in Jonesville, Wayne Twp., Bartholomew Co, IN. Benjamin Jones of your area of NC is the namesake of the town of Jonesville, and the Davis' son John, Joseph's brother, first married Sarah Jones, and moved to IN with the Jones' c 1830s.