1858 Sept 19 - Forsyth Co., NC - Original Will of Charles Vest Jr.:
State of North Carolina forsyth County September the 19 1858
Charles Vest (1783-1860), son of Samuel Vest (1757-1841) and Mary Cannifax Vest married
Catherine Vogler. Charles had children, Lewis Vest, Samuel Vest, Joel Vest, Susy Vest married
Alexander Wiley Hauser and Anny Vest married John M. Croom.
this day Being in Common helth[health] I make my Last will after all My just debt is paid
I giv[give] My Son Lewis Vest one dolar he Roat[Wrote] to Me he had traveld[traveled] and Spent
one thousand dolars and want[won’t] setled [it] yit[yet] I think it not proper to giv him any more
for he would Spend it I give Samuel Vest his Lot of Land whar[where] the dweling house and
other Buildings are I giv Joel Vest his Lot of Land whar the dweling hous[house] and other
Buildings are I giv Susay[Susy] Huser[Hauser] hir [her]lot of land whare the dwelling hous
[house] and other Buildings is I giv anny Croom hir Lot of Land adjoining hir I giv all My Land to
My children and grand Childre Except Lewis Vest he is to have no land the bottom land is to be
divided equel[equal] as well as the up Land Lay of Land anuf[enough] around the Mill and pon
[pond] for the us[use] of Mill and pon that is the Mill track the stack of Mill Business is to be
Rented out Every year Between Christmas and new year the Rent to Be divided Each one is to
help keep up the Stack of Mill Bisness[Business] non of the Children nor grand childre shall
grind his grain or saw or thrash without order from the Renter if any of them that has arite[a
right] to the Stack of Mill Bisness shall damag on my part through spite the Rest of them shall giv
him a fare price for his part and have his part Between them selves take the Case gorge
hartman and john boyer damage Mill no stranger is to have any part of Mill or Land they May
Sell to one another if any of them git in debt and it is sold and a strange By it the Rest of the
oaners[owners] shalll Bare him out when the Land is divided the sixt part of it and the Sixt part of
the Mill Bisness is to Be rtent[rented] and the fifty dolars I pade to Conrad for Lewis Vest
it to be take out and will that my Executers giv the Balance to Marthay[Martha], Ithamer, Mary,
Norman, Melevan, James, Melesa and if thar is any mor they shall have Equl sheer
I hav tryed to Make a just will all parties Be satisfied that is out of my Reah[reach]
I doant[do not] Say the Samuel Vest shall or shall not pay for the buildings on his Lot of Land it
is on known how much expense will be Between today and the day after the Last one of us oald
[old] peopel [people] is beryd[buried]. I give My wife Cathren Vest one room of the dwelling
hous we now Liv in and the garden and houshold and kitchen furniture. She is to Be
suported By the Mill and plantation after her death My Executors is to devid agrebel[agreeable]
the will. I appint Johnson Vest and Samuel Vest Executors to this will Charels Vest SEAL
Eye have Some noats out and thace is some notes against Me Baring intrust
My moveable propety is to be soald and all poot[put] together and take out
the fifty dolars I paid for Lewis Vest and I want My Exeters to giv
the Balance to Lewis Vest above named Children. Charles Vest SEAL
You see I had a slim Chance to name Regular the name of my Children
Lewis Vest is named an he is to have one dolar and no more.
Joel Vest and Johnson Vest and Samuel Vest and Susay Hauser and
Anny Croom these are to be the heirs of my property. Lewis Vest
above named children is to have something acroding this will. Charles Vest SEAL
Probated Sept Term 1860.
1860 Dec - Forsyth Co., NC - Motion to the court:
On Motion
to the court it is ordered that John Alspaugh, Phillip Mock, John Boyer Esq., John L.
Conrad, Matthias Clodfelter & Eugene Conrad Surveyors be appointed Commissioners to
divide the lands of Charles Vest decd. into six equal shares and to allot to each of the
Petitioners (Johnson Vest, Samuel Vest, Joel Vest, Alex W. Hauser & wife Susan,
John Croom and his wife Anne, and the children of Lewis Vest) all of full age except the
Children of Lewis Vest who are minors and as such [represented] by their next friend Samuel
Vest and if an equal division cannot be made. Otherwise then and in that case they are to
charge the more valuable dividend or dividends with such sum or sums as they shall Judge
necessary to be paid to the dividend or dividends of inferior value in order to make
the division equal a majority of said commissioners are to have power to act the lands described
in the petition contain 180 acres more or less as the deeds will show said commissioners
before they proceed to the execution of this order are to be duly sworn by the sheriff or some
Justice of the Peace of said county and make them reprint of order their hands & seals
the next term of this Court
Witness A. J. Stafford Clerk of
said Court 1st Monday Dec 1860. A. J. Stafford
Transcribed by Judy S. Cardwell, 2006. Brackets were added by the transcriber.
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WILL OF CHARLES VEST
Sept. 19, 1858
Transcribed by Judy Cardwell 2006
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