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From: "Vikki Highfield" <>
Subject: (NCBEAUFO-L) Hollowell family
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:44:16 -0700


In the name of God Amen. I BENJAMIN HOLOWELL of Hyde County in the State of
North Carolina Being Sick and Weak But of perfect Mind and Memory Blessed be
God do put this my Last Will and Testament in Writing as follows: I Give
devise and Bequeath unto my Son DENESON HOLOWELL my plantation and Land
there unto Belonging that I had by Father lying on Pungo River to him and
his heirs and assigns for ever also fifty acres of Land lying on the South
Side of my Mill pond that I bought of WILLIAM HOLOWELL to him and his Heirs
for ever. Item I Lend to my Well Beloved Wife MARGARET HOLOWELL this
plantation Where on I now Live and Land Containing Two Hundred and Sixty
Acres during her Widowhood or Life With the apertenances there unto
Belonging also I Lend her my Water Grist Mill during her Widowhood. I
Impower my Extr and Extrx hereafter Mentioned to Make a Deed or Title to
MOSES WINDLEY for that part of my land lying in the Back pocoson that part
aJoining to _____ The Land so as to Come to the edge of My Clearing if he
Will Pay a Proportionable part of the Expenc that I have Been At Conserving
the Said Land. I also Lend to my Said Wife my Swamp field with two hundred
and fifty acres of Land Belonging to it During her Widowhood I also Lend to
aforesaid Wife four Negroes During her Widowhood viz: Peter, George, Sesan
and Barbra. I Give to my Son DENESON HOLOWELL all my Stock of Cattle
running at my Plantation on Pungo River and two Cows and Calves at my Home
pen and one heffer Marked in his Mark. I Give to my two Sons two Ewes and
Lambs a piece. Then I Give Devise and Bequeath to my Son BENJAMIN HOLLOWELL
the plantation on whereon I now live together With all the Land thereunto
Belonging with Two hundred and fifty acres of Said Swamp land Called Prices
Ridge together with my Water Grist Mill to him and his heirs and Assigns for
Ever. Item I Give Devise and Bequeath to my two Sons DENESON HOLOWELL and
BENJAMIN HOLOWELL my part of Broad Creek Mill also fifty acres of Land I
bought of THOMAS SMETH and seventyfive acres I patent With JOSEPH HANCOCK to
them and their heirs and assigns for Ever to be Equally Divided between
them. I Give to my Son DINISON HOLOWELL one Negro boy named Seth one Negro
Girl Named Violet. I Give to my Son BENJAMIN HOLOWELL one Negro Boy Named
Sutton one Negro Boy Named Jack. I Give to Son DENISON on Mare Called Doc
to BENJAMIN one Mare Called Jinn. I Impower my Executors to Sell my Land
Lying on the Indian Run up Pantego Swamp. I Give to my two sons all my
Wearing Clothes. I Give to my Son DENESON one feather Bed and furniture.
Item The rest of my Estate That I have not Given a Way in this my Last Will
I Give to my Wife and my two Sons to be Equally Divided between them after
my Wifh shall Marry, until then she Is to have the Use of it to bring up my
Childrena and young Negroes With any Expence against my Children and Lastly
I Appoint my wife MARGRET HOLOWELL Extrx and GEORGE BARROW Extr to this my
Last Will and Testament in Witness Where of I have unto Set my Hand and Seal
this fifteenth day of December Anno Domi 1784. BENJAMIN HOLOWELL. Signed
and Sealed in the presence of us: GEO. BARROW, ELIZABETH (X) BARNET her
mark. Hyde County February Term 1785. Present the justices. This will was
Exhibited and proved by the Oath of ELIZABETH BARNET one of the Subscribers
being witnesses to the Same who Deposd that She Believed that the Testator
was of a Sound Desposing Mind and memory at the time of Executing the Same.
Ordered to be Recorded. (Hyde Co., NC, Will Book A, p. 341).

BENJAMIN HOLLOWELL
1 free white male 16 & upward
1 free white male under 16
1 free white female.
MARGARET HOLLOWELL
1 free white male 16 & upward
1 free white male under 16
3 free white females
7 slaves.
ZADIAC HOLLOWELL
1 free white male 16 & upward
1 free white female.. (U.S. Census Newbern Dist - Hyde Co., NC).

Will of WILLIAM GURGANNS of Hyde Co., NC. Book 2, p. 4. Dated 28 May 1793,
p. Nov. Term 1794. Heirs: Son ABNER GURGANNS - all lands & plantations -
rest of estate to be equally divided between 2 children, ABNER GURGANNS &
ZILPHA HOLLOWELL. Exr: Son ABNER GURGANNS, son-in-law BENJAMIN HOLLOWELL.

Will of ABRAHAM GALLOWAY of Hyde Co., NC. 6 day Nov. 1795. Dau: NANCY
HOLLOWELL - 5 Shillings. Son: HENRY GALLOWAY - 5 Shillings. Grandson:
HENRY GALLOWAY - 10 lbs. Dau: MARGARET GALLOWAY rest of estate. Exr:
WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE & dau MARGARET GALLOWAY. Wit: EZEKIEL STILLEY. Book
1, p. 304. (Hyde Co., North Carolina Wills).

Will of AARON WILKINSON, planter. Date: 30 June 1791. No probate. Friend:
FORBES GERRARD, negro after my mothers decease. Brother JACOB's oldest son
JAMES WILKINSON, negro after my mother's decease. Brother ISAAC's son BILLY
WILKINSON negro after my mother's decease. Friend: IRA HOLLOWELL. Friend:
WILLIAM SIRMON, plantation Blount's Creek. TOMMY MCSWAIN, son of ZACHARIAH
MCSWAIN, negro. Executor: FORBES GERRARD, IRA HOLLOWELL. Witnesses: JOHN
MEAR, WILLIAM ADAMS, EPHRAIM ADAMS. Remarks: Also recorded Orphan Book, p.
107 and Old Wills, p. 261. Beaufort County, NC, Will Book F, p. 97 (527).
(Beaufort County North Carolina Will Abstracts 1720-1868, Beaufort County
Genealogical Society, p. 337).

BENJAMIN HOLLOWELL, Hyde Co., 01000-00001-0.
DENSON HOLLOWELL. Hyde Co., 10010-10100-7.
ZADOK HOLLOWELL, Hyde Co., 20010-00110-0. (1800) North Carolina Census
Index, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David Schaefermeyer, eds.
Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., Bountiful, UT, 1974, p.108).

BENJAMIN HOLLOWELL, Beaufort Co., 10010-10010-0, p. 10. (1800) North
Carolina Census Index, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David
Schaefermeyer, eds. Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., Bountiful, UT,
1974, p.108).

BENJAMIN HOLLOWELL, Hyde Co., p. 223.
DENSON HOLLOWELL, Hyde Co., p. 223.
(1810 North Carolina Census Index, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples,
David Schaefermeyer, eds. Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., Bountiful,
UT, 1976, p. 65).

DICEY HOLLOWELL, Beaufort Co.. p. 57.
WILLIAM HOLLOWELL, Beaufort Co.. p. 57.
(1810 North Carolina Census Index, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples,
David Schaefermeyer, eds. Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., Bountiful,
UT, 1976, p. 56).

IRA HOLLOWELL, Hyde Co., p. 15.
ZADDOCK HOLLOWELL, Hyde Co., p. 223. (1820 North Carolina Census Index,
Dorothy Williams Potter, 1974, p. 218).

DENSON HOLLAWELL, Beaufort Co., p. 22.
REBECCA HOLLOWELL, Beaufort Co., p. 22.
RICHARD HOLLOWELL, Beaufort Co., p. 22.
ZADOCK HOLLOWELL, Beaufort Co., p. 22. (1820 North Carolina Census Index,
Dorothy Williams Potter, 1974, p. 217).


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