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North Carolina, Supreme Court, Raleigh : Williamson et al v Williamson et al, December 1858 [printed].

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Raleigh, North Carolina : North Carolina Supreme Court, 1858.
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This bill was filed by the plaintiffs as executors of the will of Thomas Williamson. The will stated that I bequeath to my daughter one negro girl, named Mary and her increase if any; also, one negro girl, named Bethany. The children of Bethany did not pass with her mother, but fell into the residue to be sold. A bequest of a female slave and her increase in a will, made before the enactment of the Revised Code, passed the mother only, and not her children, born before the will was made, or between that time and the death of the testator. But where a slave had been put in the possession of one of the testator's children, and had increase before the will was made, and where that fact was clearly recited in the will, both the mother and her children passed as stipulated in the will, even if the will had been enacted before the alterations made in the Revised Code, chapter 119, section 27. The same reasoning applied to the other bequests relating to slaves and their increase. The executors also raised a question about the land and property given to Mary Renfrow. She was entitled to keep the principal and the interest. The children of Mourning Peele were entitled to the share of their mother who had died.
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Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the North Carolina State Archives.
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North Carolina State Archives
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