========================================================================================== Amount Brought Forward £ |297 | 17 | 11½| 1 Gun & Shot Bag | 1 | 13 | 0 | 1 Leaexh 2/ 1 Steel trap | 1 | 13 | 0 | 1 Cow Skin & Lumber | -- | 8 | 6 | 1 Bowl and ladle 1/ 3 hays 2/6 | -- | 3 | 6 | Chicken corn | -- | 2 | -- | a quantity gourds and Lumber | 1 | 13 | 4 | 1 knife | -- | -- | 6 | 1 Table Cloth and Towel | -- | 4 | -- | 1 pʳ Shears & Putting pins | -- | -- | 6 | 2 pʳ Cart Wheels | -- | 15 | -- | a quantity lumber | -- | 15 | -- | 123 Barrells 3/ 1 Sheep Skin | -- | 4 | 6 | Parcel Foddar and flax | -- | 12 | | 1 Pair hand mill stones | -- | 1 | -- | 18 Bushells potato plantings | -- | 16 | -- | Cash on hand | 1 | 5 | 10½| -------- £ |307 | 10 | 4 | ================ In Obedience to an Order of the worshipful Court of Southampton we the Subscribers has appraised the personal estate of Benja Adams decd in current money Zebulon Lewis At a court held for the County John Applewhite of Southampton on 8th day of William Applewhite September 1796 This Inventory & Appraisement of the estate of Benja Adams decd was returned and Ordered to be Recorded Sam Kello CC ========================================================================================== In the left margin: Ellison Gerard Will I Gerard R Ellison of County of Southampton do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner & form following First: A lend to my wife Sarah Ellison the use of my plantation with one hundred fifty acres adjoining it and also all my personal Estate of every kind during her single life -- I give to my son Cabel Ellison one hundred acres of land more or less divided from the above mentioned land by a line of marked trees from Jesse Washingtons corner tree to Etheldred Washingtons line to him and his heirs forever Thirdly: I give to my son Edwin Ellison at the marriage or death of my wife the plantation and land whereon I now live by estimation one hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less to him in the stairs forever provided he shall pay to his brother James the sum of twenty pounds cash as soon as James arrives to the age of twenty one years if he is then in possession of the land if not as soon as he is ------ Fourthly: I give to my son James Ellison one feather bed and furniture and the twenty pounds as above directed to be paid to him by his brother Edwin to him and his heirs ------- Fifthly: I[f] either Caleb or Edwin should die without lawful issue the land heretofore devised to him I give to my son James Ellison to him and his heirs forever but in this case he shall have no right to the bed or money the devised to him above ------ Sixthly: All the remainder and residue of my estate of every kind that may be found at the Marriage or death of my Wife I leave to be equally divided between my other three children namely Darcus Ellison Gilie Ellison & Zachary Ellison which I gave to them as their survivors of them and their heirs ------ Lastly: I nominate and appoint Gidion Ellison and Sam Cornwell to Execute this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first Day of seventh month in the year seventeen hundred and ninety five ------ Signed Sealed & Delivered } in the presence of } Gerard R Ellison (seal) Joshua Bailey Absolom Bailey Thomas Washington Thomas Washington Charles Sadler At a Court held for the County of Southampton on 8th day of September 1796 This Will was presented in Court by Sam Cornwell one of the executors therein named proved by the oaths of Thomas Washington and the solemn affirmation of Charles Sadler (one of the people called quakers) two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded And on the motion of the said Executor who made affirmation according to law (he being one of the people called quakers) a certificate is granted him for obtaining a probat thereof in due form giving Security whereupon &c Sam Kello Cl ------O------ Sam Kello ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Received by the STP (go-stp.com) from Fenton Harrison on 2/26/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------