Sollis-Bowden Connection Duplin Co. NC
Following will of Bryant Sollis was challenged by William Bowden and wife Ann A.Does anyone know what the Sollis -Bowden connection is??
Same message posted on Bowden and Duplin Co., NC boards.
479.SOLLIS, BRYANT(CR.035.801.10)
25 Sep 1851 - Apr Term 1857
(To)wife NANCY whole of the land that I now possess and on which I now live with my dwelling house and all out houses, negroes Moses, Sarah, Needham, Bob & Boston and at her death or marriage negroes to go to my sons LUTHER B. &
BENAJA;wife NANCY all my beds and bed clothing, house hold and kitchen furniture, farming tools of every description, all the domestic fowls and poultry with all my horses and stock of every description, one ox cart, one
horse cart, one buggy, all the crop growing on my lantation where I now live and all the provisions on hand;PHERABA JONES a piece of land taken off the land I purchased of EDWARD 0. PEARSALL beginning at the public road near the
corner of the fence to the head of the bottom near thee house whare she now lives to Pearsall's back line to Poley Bridge Branch to the public road for her lifetime and then to her dau. CLARISSA forever; CLARISSA JONES one
hundred dollars for schooling & c.; SENY A. BOURDEN peice of land beginning at PHERIBA JONES'S first corner on the Pearsall line to a branch near JESSE SWINSON's at the mill branch to Wilsons corner to JESSE FLOWERS line to the
big Mill branch to Poley Bridge Branch for her lifetime then to SARAH ELIZABETH BOURDEN forever; SENY A. BOURDEN negro Mary for her lifetime and then to SARAH E. BOURDEN; SARAH E. BOURDEN one hundred dollars for schooling &c.;all notes and money to be kept at interests untill oldest son LUTHERarrives at age of twenty one and then divided between my two sons LUTHER B & BENAJAH.
extr:WILLIAM H. TOLAR
wit:WM H. TOLAR, JESSE FLOWERS
signed:BryantSollis
Will was contested by WILLIAM W. BOWDEN and wife ANN A.Jury consisting of SALATHIEL UZZELL, THOMAS B. HEATH, WILLIAM OUTLAW JR., WILLIAM R. WARD, DANIEL TEACHEY SR, CHARLES PAGE, MICHAEL SAVAGE, SHERWOOD GRADY, DAVID H.
SWINSON, OWEN STROUD, NICK HALL & HUGH FARRIOR ruled it to be the last will & testament of BRYAN SOLLIS & ordered it recorded