Person:Thomas Allison (21)

Will Transcript

To all whom it may concern: Greeting. Know ye that I Thomas Allison of Iredell County & State of North Carolina, being of perfect mind & memory, & calling to mind the mortality of all men: do order, constitute & dispose of my Estate in the following manner. Viz:

First, I leave & bequeath to my well beloved Wife Madeline Allison, Fifty Pounds in hard money & my Negroe Wench Jude to her proper disposal and the rise of the one Third of my Land during her Life, also the rise of the Two back rooms & the Kitchen Fire place, & I also bequeath to her all the household Furniture & all the Sheep, one third of the Hogs, and as many of the Horses & Cattle as she may think necessary for her to keep & the rise of the Cellar & the Two negro Fellows Pomp & Bob, I also give her the one third of the plantation Implowments.

Again I give & devise to my son Thomas Allison all the Land I hold in said County, & the remainder of the Hogs and plantation Implements & the Waggon between him & his Mother, each to have equal rise of her, I also give to my Son Thomas, Pomp and order that he pay the one half of his value to my son John Allison.

Again, I give & bequeath to my Son Richard Allison my Negro Bob & order that he pay to my son Theophilus Allison, the one half of his value, both to be valued at the time they get them in possession; again; I give & devise to my Son Theophilus Twenty Acres of the place I own on third Creek, to be laid off parallel along his line, and order that he pay to my Grandson William Allison Twenty five Pounds, which sum I bequeath to said Grandson.

Again I give and devise to my Grand-daughter[s] Christiana & Margaret Allison, the remainder of said Tract to be equally divided between them.

Again, I give & devise to my Grandson Thomas Knox Three Hundred Acres of land it being a part of a Tract of Four Thousand Acres of Tennessee Land, to be laid off square off the Third Corner of said Tract.

Again, I devise the remainder of said Tract to be equally divided among my Four Sons.

Again, I give and bequeath to my Grandsons, the two Thomas Allisons, Thos. Kerr & Thomas Neal, Ten Pounds to each of them.

Again, I give and bequeath to my Three Daughters, Magdalen Knox, Mary Kerr & Ann Neal, the whole amount of the Sales of the remainder of my Stock, viz. horses & Cattle, to be equally divided among them.

And I hereby appoint and constitute, my well beloved wife Magdalen Allison Executrix and my Son Thomas Allison Executor of this my last Will & Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal, this twenty fifth Nov. 1793.

[Signed] Thomas Allison [Seal]

Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of:

Meefsn. Matthews (jurat)

James Andrews

Samuel Long Junr.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 W.E. Knox Bible Record, in Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson. Tennessee Records : Bible Records and Marriage Bonds. (Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox, 1974)
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   Thomas Allison Knox born April 14, 1722, and departed this life May 5, 1794.

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   There is some evidence that the Iredell settlers did not always play fair with the Earl’s agents. Some of the surveys show more land than called for in the grant. And Robert W. Ramsey, in his “Carolina Cradle,” interprets the slowness with which the first grants were made as an attempt of the settlers to live on the land as long as they could without paying quitrents. On March 25, 1752, almost four years after the first settlers showed up, Granville grants were made to 48 settlers, including Alexander Osborne; John and Robert Brevard; James Huggins and his son, John Huggins; George Davidson and George Davidson, Jr.; Benjamin Winsley; Rev. John Thompson; Robert, Andrew, and Thomas Allison; and William Morrison. Ramsey thinks that Osborne and the others had deliberately put off obtaining the grant to avoid paying quitrents so early.
   
   https://ncgenweb.us/iredell/early-settlers/