State of North Carolina
Tyrrell County

I Charles Spruill of the county aforesaid being very sick and low in flesh but in perfect sound mind and memory thanks be to God for the same, do make and ordain this to be my last will and
testament in manner following-- to with, first of all I resign my soul in the hands of almighty God who gave it and my body to be buried in a Christian like manner at the descresion of my Executors hereafter named

Item 1st I give and bequeath to my wife Mary SPRUILL the following Negroes viz LEWIS, DANIEL, TED, AFT, ALFRED, BLACK NELL, GEORGE, BIG BETT, MARGARETT, and MATILDA one bay mare chair and harness which chair and harness she has in her possession,
also one third part of all my other stock and all the furniture that she was possessed of when she came from England also all the lands and Swamp that was here lying on Punga? Creek in Hyde
County provided that she the sd Mary SPRUILL makes no further demand of any of my other lands according to former bargain

ITEM I give and bequeath to Mary Ann ENGLAND one Negro woman by name of YELLOW NELL and all the hogs that was called hers when she came to my house also two eyes and lambs one cow called Delphy and her yearling also one third part of my manner plantation and my woodland thereunto ??ing for and during her natural life or widowhood

ITEM I give and bequeath to my sister Elizabeth CULLIPHER four hundred dollars to be paid out of the sale of my estate.

ITEM I give and bequeath to Joannah ARMSTRONG four hundred dollars

ITEM I give and bequeath to Zilpha DAVENPORT four hundred dollars

ITEM I give and bequeath to my brother Benjamin SPRUILL in trust for my sister Mary F. SPRUILL the sum of four hundred dollars

ITEM I give and bequeath to the heirs of Josiah SPRUILL namely that is say to Uriah SPRUILL five hundred dollars likewise to Phereba SPRUILL the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars.

ITEM I give and bequeath to the heirs of William SPRUILL that is to say Hezekiah SPRUILL four hundred dollars also to Fredrick SPRUILL five hundred dollars also to Sally HATFIELD four hundred dollars and to Fanny PHELPS two hundred and fifty dollars.

My will and desire is that all my other estate both real and personal except negro woman RACHEL be sold at the discretion of my Executors and the money arising therefrom to be equally divided amongst my other heirs not heretofore mentioned.

I give my Negro woman RACHEL her freedom to be placed under the governship of my brother Benjamin SPRUILL.

I hereby nominate and appoint my brother Benjamin SPRUILL, Ebenezar PETIGREW and Leonard MARTIN my sole executors to this my last will and testament, disanuling and revoking all others best this to be my last and testament in witness hereunto I have let my hand and seal this the 14th day of December in the year of our Lord 1814 signed
CHAS SPRUILL {seal}

Sealed in the presence of us
JAS WOOD
JULIAN ???
DANL BATEMEN

Codicile

My will and desire is that in case the one third part of my manner plantation heretofore given to Mary Ann ENGLAND should be by any means taken from her so that she cannot possess the same my desire is that she should have her ten acres of land in any part of my Cullipher Plantation and a convenient house to be built thereon for her accomdation during her natural life and widowhood at the descretion of my Executors this ordered in my last will and testament witness my hand and seal this 14th day Dec 1814 sealed CH SPRUILL {seal}

in presence of us
JAS WOOD
DANL BATEMAN

Dec 15th 1814 this may certify that the above codicile was proved by the oath of Jas WOOD and Daniel BATEMAN sworn to before me
RICH WOOD, JP
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Tyrrell County January Term 1815 Thence the will of Colo? Charles SPRUILL was proved agreeable to law by the oathes of James WOOD and Danl BATEMAN
JAMES HOSHING, Clk

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