- Last Will and
Testament of HOLLIDAY, William Sr.
Wife: NANCY, any privilege she may
need to support herself and family on any part of my land not
divided to be sold during her life or widowhood and no longer.
lends her negro slaves Elijah, Noel, Phillis, Sarah, Olief, negro
girl Cale, negro boys Nat and Jacob, plus food type items and
stock not hereafter divided.
- Daughter: S.W.S. BRIGHT ,
lands bought of Daniel and Sylvanus JONES abt. 450 acres. after
wifes death or marriage all the negroes shall be divided into
three parts and Sarah W. S. BRIGHT gets two shares and the other
third to son Thomas HOLLIDAY
- Son: Samuel HOLLIDAY, one negro
man, bees, remnant of money he has from sale of Jacob and Peter
- Son: William HOLLIDAY, abt 270
acres providing he comes to Greene County on or before 1 March
1853. If he does not return by then the tract of land shall be
equally divided between grandchildren, Ann Elizabeth Titus
HOLLIDAY, dau of Titus HOLLIDAY, deceased and Sarah Frances Eliza
DARDEN, dau of Wm. A. DARDEN
- Granddaughter: Ann Elizabeth Titus
HOLLIDAY, negroes Anarchy, Maria, Mely,
- Granddaughter: Sarah Frances Eliza
DARDEN, negroes Mary and Beady.
- Son: Thomas HOLLIDAY, lands
descended to me by the death of John HOLLIDAY, the remnant of land
that heretofore devised, give (sic) to me by my father Samuel
HOLLIDAY, The remnant of land not heretofore devised in the lands
purchased by me from Richard L. TYSON; also the remnant not
devised in a patent granted to me for thirty acres as reference to
the different titles will show containing 600 acres more or less,
negro slaves, AGG, Cherry, and Jack, her children, Caesar, Daniel
and Edmund.
- Sarah W. BRIGHT , Thomas HOLLIDAY
and wife Nancy to divide equally the following negroes, Abraham,
Jo, Old Caesar, Patiene and Charlotte.Sarah to receive 2 parts,
Thomas and Nancy one part each
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- "I will and devise that all my lands lying
in the county of Duplin, containing about four hundred acres, be
surveyed and sold by my executors and credit of one or two yeas
also the lands I purchased of Sylvestor Brown and known as the
Dail Place, containing one hundred and ninety three acres, also
the lands I purchased at Sheriff's sale as the property of Mary E.
BRIGHT and all the lots I own in Snow Hill on the same
credit. I also will that all the balance of my property, of every
description not heretofore devised, be sold by my executors on a
credit of six months, out of the profits of which and the debts
due to me, I wish all my just debts to be paid and the balance to
be divided into six parts, of which Sarah W.S. BRIGHT
shall be entitled to two chares, and the balance equally divided
between my wife, NANCY, Samuel HOLLIDAY, Frances GARLAND, wife of
Josiah GARLAND, andThomas HOLLIDAY.
- executors sons John and Thomas HOLLLIDAY
- signed and sealed 30 July 1832
- SEE CODICIL MADE: 11 Aug 1835
(Greene co wills film 1571510 at LDS Family
History Center abstracted by Patty Day )
- CODICIL TO THE WILL OF
William Sr. HOLLIDAY , (original
will written 1832)
- land lent to Wm. HOLLIDAY if he should
retun by March 1853, be divided into three equal parts, the lines
running east and west, and my daughter Sarah BRIGHT to
have two shares and my son Thomas HOLLIDAY one share of said land.
negro man Read given as the land to Wm., now to be "disposed of in
the same way as negroes Abraham, Jo, Caesar, Patience,
andCharlotte.
- Negro girl Charlotte be disposed of and
held in the same way and under the same restrictions by my
granddaghter Ann Elizabeth Titus HOLLIDAY as negroes Anica and
Mariah heretofore given to her by my last will and testament-
negroes given to my granddaughter Sarah Frances Eliza DADEN,viz.
Mary, Lucinda (a child of Mary born since the sealing of the will)
and Beady I wish to be disposed of as negroes Abraham, Jo, Old
Caesar, and Patience.
- in addition to the executors named in the
original will, Sarah BRIGHT is also appointed. signed
William HOLLIDAY 11 Aug 1835
- witnesses
- J.S. Hanks
- Tillman HOLLIDAY
- (Greene co wills film 1571510 at LDS Family
History Center abstracted by Patty Day )
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