Will of Samuel Woods
Rockingham County North Carolina
July 26th 1796
Inquisition from Escheator of Rockingham. This indenture of an inquisition taken and made in pursuance of an Act,
entitled an Act concerning Escheators at the Court House of Rockingham County, on Tuesday, the 26th day of July,
in the year of our Lord, 1796, of and concerning a certain piece, etc., of land commonly known and called by the
name of the late Rev. Thomas Jackson, deceased, containing 230 acres, etc., in Rockingham County, on the waters
of Linwell's Creek and Muddy Creek, which was first granted by patent, dated 27th June, 1764, to William Sample
and by him conveyed to said Thomas Jackson by deeds, 15th May, 1770. Between Mathew Gambill, Escheator, and James
Curry, William Herring, Benjamin Harrison, John Rice, Reuben Harrison, John Herdman, George Baxter, Richard Ragan,
Samuel McWilliams, Jonathan Shipman, Benjamin Smith, James Burgess, George Sittes, Thomas Shanklin, John Lincoln.
William Cravens, jurors,
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who, etc., do say that the aforesaid Thomas Jackson was, in his lifetime, and the time of his death, seized, etc.,
of the aforesaid tract, etc. That he died intestate and no person has claimed the land either as lineal or collateral
heir and it is escheatable.
Signed by all the jurors.
Copy of the will of Samuel Woods, dated 8th January, 1781. I, Samuel Woods, of the County of Amherst, Rockfish
Settlement. To wife, Sarah, land purchased of Thomas Patton. To eldest son, James, 350 acres in Albemarle, joining
Henry Kerr and Alexander Fretwell. To son, William (infant), two tracts in Amherst, joining Rockfish Meeting House,
formerly the property of William Patton and William Crow; and mill property, formerly belonging to Robert and Edward
Stephenson, David Black (Clack, Clark?), William Clark, and Langsdon Depriest. To three youngest daughters, to
be schooled. To five daughters. Executors, Gabriel Penn, Francis Merriweather, James Brooks, James Woods, Jr.,
and William Woods. Leaves Jane, Hannah, Elizabeth, and William Dunon (Drenon), to his wife.
Test: James Brooks
Alexander Reid, Jr.
William Small
John Davis
Joseph Smith.
Proved in Amherst, 5th February, 1781.