First- I leave unto Mary Elizabeth Hatfield during her natural life negro man Devy & negro woman Amris and after death I give them and the increase to her children if any living.
2d. I also loan unto Levi W. Hassell negro man Spencer & woman Dophne during his life them with the increase to go his children if any child or children then living-
3d. All the land I own at my death I direct to be sold & the interest of the same to be paid over anually & equally unto said Mary and said Levi. and at the death of either one half to be paid over to his or her child or children if any then living, and so at the death of the other, the other half to be paid to his or her child or children if any then living-
4th. The residue of my property shall be sold at six months credit & of the proceeds thereof I give to Joseph Wynne Etheridge son of Asa Etheridge two hundred dollars-
5th- Out of the same fund I give unto Joseph Wynne Brickhouse son of Hardy T. Brickhouse two hundred dollars-
6th- Out of the same fund I give unto Joseph Wynne Patrick son of Fred K. Patrick two hundred dollars, these three amounts to be kept at interest by my exr. Or exect. Until the children aforesaid severally attain to twenty one years of age.
7th. The residue of my estate, or funds if any I give to my nearest blood kin living at my death.
8th. I give unto my three executors whom I nominate & appoint as follows to Wm. Wynne, James F. Davenport & Robert R. Heath or to whoever of them shall qualify four hundred and fifty dollars in full of all services, and which is a charge on my estate generally- Signed witnessed and declared to be Jos. Wynn's last Will & Testament revoking all others the day & year aforesaid
Jos. Wynne
Jordan L. Jones
Joseph Mclees
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
October Term 1849
The next of kin being in court & not objecting a paper writing pertaining to be the last Will & Testament of Jos. Wynne decd is produced in open court & the due & formal execution as a Will & Testament is proved by Jordan L. Jones & Jos. Mclees subscribing witnesses theto who swore that they saw said Wynne sign said paper writing and heard him declair the same to be his last Will & Testament that he was of sound & disposing mind & memory at the time & they at the same time signed the said paper writing as witnesses in his said Wynne presence & at his request let it be admitted to probate & the same is hereby admitted to probate as a will passing realty & personalty at the same time James F. Davenport & R. R. Heath two of the excrs therein named appeared & qualified thereto the other exer declining to qualify-
Jos. Alexander Clk.
Recorded 5 Dec 1849
North Carolina Archives
Loose Estate Papers
Tyrrell County (C.R.096.508.58), Box 58
Wynne, Joseph, 1849
Most of the documents in this file are too faded to be read. What is known is that Joseph Wynne died about 1849 leaving a will and that James F. Davenport & R. R. Heath were executors of this will. A petition was filed by Mary E. Norman, wife of Samuel Norman, in 1871 concerning land bequathed to her by the will of Joseph Wynne but most of it is too faded to read. It seems to be a petition to have Charles W. McClees appointed as trustee in place of John McClees who died in February 1871.
Transcriber's Notes:
The 1830 Census of Tyrrell County shows the household of Joseph Wynne with 1 male 30 - 40.
The 1840 Census of Tyrrell County shows the household of Joseph Wynne with 1 male 40 - 50.
The 1850 Census of Washington County shows the household of Levi W. Hassell (22), Miranda Hassell (19), Jacob Hassell (1), Jordan Hassell (6 mo), Ashbury Arnold (17) and Absalom Spruill (19).
The 1850 Census of Tyrrell County shows the household of Samuel Norman (25) and Mary Norman (25).
The 1860 Census of Tyrrell County shows the household of Samuel Norman (35), Mary Norman (37), Winfield Norman (7), Alpheus Norman (5), Julia Norman (2) & Priscilla West (30).
The 1870 Census of Tyrrell County shows the household of Samuel Norman (45), Mary Norman (46), Winfield Norman (18), Alpheous Norman (14), Julia Norman (12) and Walter Norman (8).
See the 1848 will of Charles Hatfield. Mary E. Hatfield was his wife and he wanted to be buried at Levi Hassell's in Washington County.
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