JENNETT, JOHN
August 3, 1738. March Court, 1749. Sons: WILLIAM ("all my land"), JOHN and JABEZ. Daughters: ELIZABETH ALEXANDER, DOROTHY POPTE- WELL, JEAN. Wife: DOROTHY. Executor: WILLIAM JENNETT (son). Witnesses: HENRY NORMAN, Jos. SPRUILL, SAM'L SPRUILL. Clerk of the Court: EVAN JONES.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 185)

JENNETT, JOHN
April 9, 1748. June Court. 1749. Sons: ABRAHAM, JOHN. Daughters: ANN and ELIZABETH JENNETT. Grandson: ABRAHAM JENNETT. Wife and Executrix: ANN. Witnesses: GEORGE CARON, ANN JENNETT ("JABEZ'S Daughter"), DANLL. GRANDIN. Clerk of Court: EVAN JONES.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 185)

JONES, JAMES
August 3, 1750. No probate. Sons: JAMES (150 acres of land), TRALEY, EVAN, BENJAMIN (150 acres of land). Daughters: MARY DRAPIR, ANN and ELIZABETH JONES. To JOHN RAY is given "the liberty of dwelling on my land called the Folley." Wife and Executrix: MARY. Witnesses: JOHN RAY, WILLIAM HOWARD, ELIZABETH HOWARD.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 193)

In the Name of God, amen. I, James Jones, of the Province of North Carolina and in the County of Tyrrell. Cooper, being at Present in sound Mind and memory, thanks be given to God for it, and caleing to mind the mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appoynted for all men ones to Die, Do make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say: Principaly and first of all, I give and Recomend my soul into the Hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I Recommend to the Earth to be Bureyid at the Discretion of my Executors, Nowthing Doubting but at the general Resurrection, I shall Receve the same again by the mighty Power of God; and as Touching Such worldly Estate, wherewith it hath Pleased God to Bless mee in this Life, I give and Dispose of in the Form and Manner Following:
Imprams., I give and bequeath to my Loveing wife, Mary Jones, Dureing her Naturall Life, one Hundred and Fifty Acres of Land, Including my uper Plantation.
Item, after the Death of my said Wife, my Will and Desire is, that the said one Hundred and fifty Acres of Land, including my Said uper Plantation, be my Son, James Jones, to him and his heirs for Ever; and in Case my Son, James, should Die in his menority, then my Will and Desyer is, that the sd. upper Plantation, with one Hundred and fifty acres of Land, be my Son, Traley Jones, to him and his heirs for Ever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son, Benjamin Jones, one hundred and fifty acres of Land, being the Remaining Part of the Land belonging to my sd. uper Plantation, to him and his Heirs for Ever: and in Case my son Benjamin should die in his Menority, then the sd. Hundred and fifty Acres of Land to be my Son, Traley Jones, and his Heirs for ever.
Item, I give and Bequeath to my Daughter, Mary Drapir, one young Mare.
Item, I give and Bequeath my Personal Estate to my Severall Children hereafter mentioned, only, my wife to have the use thereof Dureing her Life; and in Case she mary again, then . to have the use of my sd. Personall Estate During her WidoHood. my Said Personall Estate I Desyer should be Equally Devided Betwen my Children after the Death or Marage of my said Wife, To wit: Evan Jones, James Jones, Traley Jones and Benjm. Jones, and Ann Jones and Elizabeth Jones.
Item, I give to John Ray the Liberty Dureing his Life and his Wifes WidoHood, the Privilege of Dewlling on Part of my Land Called the folley.
I do herby appoint and constitute my Loveing Wife, Mary Jones, Exectrx. Together With my Two Sons, Evan and James Jones, Hole and soul Executors of this my Last Will and Testement, and I Do hereby utterly Disalow, Revoke and Disanull all and Every other former Testaments, Wills, Legaces and Bequests and Executors by mee in any Ways before Named, Willed and Bequeathed, Ratifying and confuting this and No other to be my Last Will and Testament.
In Witness whareof, I Have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this third Day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, Seven Hundred and fifty.
                                                                                            James Jones.   (Seal)
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
in the Presence of us:
John Ray.
            his
William MC Howard, Jurat,
         marke
Elizabeth && Howard.
         her Mark
James Jones Qual’d Exer.

Copied from the Original will filed in the Office of the Secretary of State,
Source: North Carolina Wills and Inventories, copied from Original and Recorded Wills and Inventories In the Office of the Secretary of State by J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, Published 1912)

JORDAN, SOLOMON
March 3, 1721-1722. April 11, 1722. Sons: ABRAHAM (200 acres of land on north side of Cashia River and other tracts described in will). Daughters: LUARRESIA, REBECCA. Wife: not named. Executor: MAJ. ROBERT WEST. Witnesses: REBECCA CORRY, RACHEL BUTTLOR, MARTIN CREMEN. Will proven before THOS. POLLOCK.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 199)

JORDAN, WILLIAM
July 4. 1732. November 2, 1732. Sons: JOHN ("my manner plantation"). Daughter: ESTER. Wife and Executrix: SARAH. Executor: NATHANIEL EVERETT. Witnesses: THOS. HOBBS, WILLIAM GARRETT. SAM'LL DURRANCE. Will proven before WM. LITTLE, Chief Justice.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 199)