The petition to the will made by Martha McNeill and others to Judge Farquhar Bethune, filed November 30, 1844.
(From: Papers concerning the will of Zephaniah
Kingsley, 1844, 1846,
Series M87-
20)
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Testament bearing date same day and year last
aforesaid (but which for resolved herein after stated your
petitioners are advised and believe was and is entirely null
and void by which same Instrument of writing he the said
Zephaniah Kingsley after [??] that all his true and
lawful debts, funeral expenses and testamentary changes
and expenses should be fully paid and discharged so soon
as might be after his death; made, so far as by such
[illegible due to tear and fold]
and [bequests] to [??] persons viz:
To his Nephew Kingsley B. Gibbs whom your petitioners
pray may be made a party defendant in this case
he devised (so far as thirty he could devise) one half
of his two thousand acre tract (of land) in Twelve mile
Swamp which, when divided into two parts would
give one thousand acres of Land for the said Kingsley
B. Gibbs, one half (be the same more or left to him, his
heirs, and [??] and did also bequeath to the said
Kingsley B. Gibbs his (the said Zephaniah Kingsley’s)
Schooner, North Carolina, with all its appurtenances,
and his (the said Zephaniah Kingsley’s) books and arms
not otherwise disposed of. And to his (the said
Zephaniah Kingsley’s) nephew George Cooper Gibbs he
(the said Zephaniah Kingsley) by the same instrument of
writing did bequeath (so far as thereby he could bequeath)
in fee simple absolute all the remaining one half of
the aforementioned two thousand acre trace in Twelve
mile Swamp which will be one thousand acres more or
less. [illegible due to tear]
nephew Charles I McNeill he the said Zephaniah
Kingsley by the same instrument of writing did
bequeath (so far as thereby he could bequeath) in fee
simple absolute a certain tract or parcel of land
situated at [Beauclin’s] Bluff between [Cowen?] & [Cunie?]
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