William Andrews
William Andrews was a planter of Halifax County, North Carolina. His birth and parents are not known. His home place, which he called his manor plantation, lay on Conoho Creek. The creek runs southeast to the Roanoke River, and the land around it became part of Martin County in 1774.
He made his will on 20 October 1761, "sick and weak of Body but of sound and perfect mind and Memory." To six of his children he left twenty shillings sterling each, a token share that usually meant they had already been provided for: his son Henry, his daughter Jean Bryant, his daughter Amey Bailey, and his sons William Hill, Abner and Isam Andrews.
His younger children got the substance. His son Micajah got 240 acres running from a slash near Wiggins's cart road to Joseph Moore's line and down Conoho, with a walnut desk, a feather bed and furniture, a case and bottles, six cows and calves, and "one Bay horse called Pompey." His daughter Sarah got four cows and calves, a feather bed and furniture, the "Black Mare which is comonly called her mare," two ewes and lambs, a black walnut chest and twenty shillings.
He lent "my Loving Wife Catharine Andrews" the plantation where he lived, the stock and furniture not otherwise given, and an enslaved man named Charles, for her life. After her death all of it went to his son Jesse. Jesse also got two more tracts, 300 acres on Conoho joining the manor plantation and 100 acres "in the islands" joining its lower end. If Jesse died without children, the home place was to go to Micajah. He named his wife and his sons Henry and Jesse as executors.
Five people witnessed the will: William Rainer, Jacob Chamber, Sarah Scott, Thomas Wiggins and John Miham. William died within weeks. At the December court of 1761 William Rainer and John Miham swore to it. A few months later his son-in-law William Bryant died, and two of his sons, William Hill Andrews and Jesse Andrews, witnessed and executed that will.
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Cite: Heirology, "William Andrews (d. 1761)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/william-andrews-1761-c0b06a.