BIDDLE, JACOB.
Onslow County.
February 24, 1755-1756. April Court, 1758.
Sons: JACOB ("a pease of land lying on the North side of the Branch that runs by plantation and binding on John Simson's Branch"), ISAAC.
Wife: ANNE.
Grandsons: WILLIAM BIDDLE (son of ISAAC), ISAAC BIDDLE (son of ISAAC).
Other legatees: ABRAM SIMSON, ANTHONY and JACOB CHARLESCRAFT.
Executors: ANNE BIDDLE (wife) and ISAAC BIDDLE (son).
Witnesses: SAMUEL PEIRSON, WILLIAM GIBSON, JAMES ATKINS.
Clerk of the Court: WILLIAM CRAY, Court House on New River. JNO. STARKEY and others, Justices.
The date of the will, as handwritten in the record, is given as 24 Feb 1755/6. It is not clear if the writer was used to the old ways of the year starting in March, in which case the year was likely 1756, or if he just made an habitual error and it was 1755.
