CANADY, RICHARD
April 20, 1744. October 23, 1749. Son: JOHN ("plantation whereon I now live"). Daughter: KEZIA. Wife: KATHERINE. Executors: JOHN CANADAY (son) and STEVENS LEE. Witnesses: RICHARD DRAPER, EVAN JONES. Clerk of the Court: JOSIAH HART. Executors qualified before STEVENS LEE.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 61)

CASWELL,MATTHEW
March 24, 1754. June Court, 175-1. Sons: MATTHEW (plantation "formerly belonging to Edward Phelps"), SAMUEL ("my Log house plantation"), ELISHA ("my manner plantation"). Daughters: JOANNA (land called the Red Banks), ELIZABETH CASWELL (plantation known by the name of Briffit's Island and also land on Scuppernong River), TABITHA CASWELL (land known by the name of the Loghouse land adjoining brother Samuel). Other legatee: CASWELL HASSELL. Wife and Executrix: ELIZABETH. Executors: SAMUEL SPKUILL (father-in-law) and MATTHEW CASWELL (son). Witnesses: JOSHUA TURNER, ROBERT ELTON, EDWD. PHELPS. Clerk of the Court: EVAN JONES.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 66)

In the Name of God Amen, this Twenty Fourth Day of March, Seventeen Hundred and Fifty Four. I, Matthew Casewell, of Tyrrell County, in the Province of North Carolina, planter, Being sick and weak in Body, but of Sound and perfect Memmory, thanks be Given to God for the Same, Therefore calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die; do make and Ordain this my Last will and Testament, In the form & Manner Following, That is to say: principaly and First of all, I Recomend my Soul unto the hands of God who gave it me & my Body to the Earth to be Buried in a Decent Christian Buriall at the Descresion of my Exers. hereafter Named; And as Touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath ben pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I Depose of the Same in the Manner & Form following:
Imprimis. I Give & Bequeath unto my Beloved son, Matthew Casewell, the plantation and Two Hundred and Twenty Acres of Land, being the Land formerly Belonging to Edward Phelps; and Likewise Twenty two Accres of Land out of the Loghouse Survey Joyning on Samll. Spruill Line, Known by the Name of the Back Ridge, Unto Hun & His Heirs & Assigns for ever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved Son, Samuell Casewell, my Log House plantation with Two Hundred Acres of Land Belonging to the same.
Item. I Give and bequeath to my Beloved Son, Elisha Casewell, my Manner plantation which I Live on, with one Hundred Thirty And Six Acres, more or Less, to him, his heirs and Assigns for Ever.
Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Beloved Daughter, Joanna Casewell the Land Called ye Red Banks, with one hundred acres of Land Joyning the plantation, to her, her Heirs and Assigns for Ever, with Twenty Two Acres of Land in the Log House Survey, Joyning her Brother Matthew.
Item. I Give and bequeath to my beloved Daughter, Eiza. Casewell, the plantation and Land belonging to the Same, known by the Name of Briffits Island, to her & Her Heirs & assigns for Ever.
Item. I Give and bequeath to my Beloved Daughter, Jemima Casewell, the plantation and Land Belonging to the Same, Known by the Name of Addesons Island, and Likewise my part of the Tract of Land Surveyd between me and James phelps, Sen., Lying on the East Side of Scuppernung River &c, To Her, And Her Heirs and Assigns for Ever.
Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter, Tabitha Casewell, Two Hundred acres of Land known by the Name of the Log House Land, Joyning my Son, Samuell, to Her and Her Heirs and Assigns for Ever, or forty Pounds, Procl., my Son Matthew haveing the Refuise, Then Samuell.
Item. I Give and Bequeath to Casewell Hassell, one Cow, Calfe & Her Increase.
Item. I give and Bequeath to my well Beloved Wife, Elizabeth Casewell, One Third part of all my personall Estate, The Remainder to be Equily Devided between my Children, to be Divided at the Descresion of my Exrs.
Item. I make, Constitute and Ordain my Beloved Wife, Elizabeth Casewell, Executrix, and my beloved Father in Law, Samuell Spruill, and my Son, Matthew Casewell, Exrs. of this my Last will & Testament, Utterly (Disannulmg all other) Allowing this and no Other to be my last Will and Testament.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal, the Date above written.
                                                                                                his
                                                                                 Matthew M C Casewell   (Seal)
                                                                                              marke.
Signed, Sealed, published, pro-
nounced and Declared by the sd.
Matthew Casewell as his last Will
and Testament, in the Presence
of us:
Joshua Turner, Jurat.
Robert Elton.
Edwd. Phelps.

North Carolina, Tyrrei. County, ss.   June Court, 1754, Present his Majesty's Justices:
These may Certify that Joshua Tamer, one of the Subscribing Evidences to the within Will came into Open Court and made Oath on the Bohr Evangelists of Almighty God, That he Saw Matthew Casewell sign, seal, pronounce & Declare the within Writing to contain his last Will & Testament; and at the same Time he saw Robert Elton, & Edward Phelps, sign their names as Evidences to the same. Then appeared Samuel Spruel_& Mathew Caswell Executors & Qualified themselves as Exec’rs., by taking the Oath as the Law in such Cases Directed.
Ordered That the Hon'ble James Murray, Esqr., Secretary of this Province have notice thereof, that Letters Testamentary Issue accordingly.
                                                                Test.   Evan Jones, Cler. Cur.

COMBS, WINNIFITT
October 31, 1749. March Court, 1750. Sons: ROBERT and SAMUELL. Daughters: MARY COMBS, ELISEBETH BRADY, ANN WREN. Grandson: JAMES COMBS. Executor: ROBT. COMBS (son). Witnesses: DAVID DUNCAN, JOHN WARD, JOHN COMBS. Clerk of the Court: EVAN JONES
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 78)