Sarah Bowles

Caswell Co. Will Abstracts

Katherine Kendall Kerr

 

Will of Sarah BOWLES

1nov1783

April1784

To dau Mary WASHINGTON; granddaus Sarah and Nancy Bowles; dau Oney YEARGIN; Ben Yeargin and his bro John Yeargin; grandson Andrew Yeargin; Bartlett Yeargin; grandson JORDAN BOWLES. Son John and grandson Benjamin Yeargin execs. Wm WAITE, Walter OAKLEY, John CRAGG, wits.

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Will of Sarah Bowles:

In the name of God Amen. This first day of November Anno Dom 1783, I Sarah Bowles of Caswell County State of North Carolina being sick in body but of good and perfect memory thanks be to Almighty God and calling to remembrance the uncertain estate of this transitory life and that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall plese God to call, do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner and form following first being penitent and sorry for all my sins I commend my soul to Almighty God my Saviour and Redeemer in whom and by whose merits I trust and believe assuredly to be saved and to have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit the Kingdom of heaven and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my exectors hereafter named and for the settling of my temporal estate and such goods chattels and debts as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me.

 

I do order and give and dispose in same in manner and form following that is to say, I give & bequeath onto John Bowles one negro man named Landston, also one negro man named James also one negro woman named Sarah(it is my will that the said Sarah keep her children until each one of them is seven years old) to him & his heirs forever also my bay horse Buck also four head of horned cattle also on pewter dish and two pewter plates.

 

Item I lend unto my daughter Mary Washington my negro girl named Hannah during my said daughter Mary natural life and after her decrease to return to my granddaughter Sarah Bowles.

 

Item I give & bequeath unto my daughter Oney Yeargan my negro girl named Judy to her and her heirs forever also one pewter dish and two pewter plates and one pewter ------?.

 

Item I give and bequeath unto Benjamin Yeargin my negro boy Samuel to him and his heirs of his body forever but if the said Benjamin Yeargin dies without heirs of his body the said negro shall return to John Yeargin his brother also one pewter dish.

 

Item I give and bequeath unto my grandson Andrew Yeargin my negro child named Fill? to him and his heirs forever.

 

Item I give and bequeath to my granddaughter Sarah Bowles one feather bed and furniture also one coffee pot.

 

Item I give and bequeath unto my granddaughter Nancy Bowles one feather bed & furniture also one spice master?

 

Item I give and bequeath unto Bartlett Yeargin my bay horse colt.

 

Item I give and bequeath unto my grandson Jordon Bowles my black horse. Also the remainder of my horned cattle not yet given away to be equally divided among the Andrew Yeargan childen that have no cattle.

 

And I hereby appoint my loving son John Bowles and also my loving grandson Benjamin Yeargin full and sole executors of this my last will and testament in witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirty first day of October A.D. one thousand seven hundred & eighty three.

 

Sarah (her hand) Bowles

 

In the presence of:

Wm. Waite

Walter Oakley

 

1784-Book B, July court 1784, pg 49: acct. of estate of Samuel Bumpass(Sept. 6 1776), cash paid to Thomas Murry, Doct. Burk, Wm., Washington for maintenance of children, Moses Bridges, Jno. Anderson, SARAH BOWLES.

 

1786 Book B, pg 115, Inv. Estate sale of Sarah Bowles attended by Andrew Yeargain, John Washington, Edmund Colley, David Roberts…

 

 

Sarah’s children:

Oney married Andrew Yeargain/Yeargin 3 January 1757 in Goochland Co. Va. Oney died before 1813 in Greenville SC when her will was probated.

Children of Oney Bowles and Andrew Yeargain:

John Yeargain b c 1758 married Elizabeth Nazary in Wilkes Co., NC died before 6 May 1816 in Newberry Co. SC

Benjamin Yeargain was born 22 August 1759, married Sarah Hinton Morgan Patterson, daughter of Mark Morgan and Sarah Hinton, widow of John Tapley Patterson, He did Orange Co. NC 22 March 1812.

Andrew Yeargain Jr. died Sc between 1807 (mentioned father’s will) and 1810 when land was sold. Amy (presumed wife) is there instead of Andrew.

Samuel Yeargain married Mary Spearman in Newberry SC, did before 1840 Franklin Co. Ga.

Edward Yeargain married Rachel Stark, both were killed c 1825 by lightning in Pendleton, SC.

James Yeargain never married, died SC

Devereaux Yeargan married Permelia Shell, died c 1849 Greenville Co.

Jarrett Fletcher Yeargain married Amelia Patterson (his brother Benjamin’s step daughter)

Resided Orange Co. NC until c 1824, moved to Mecklenburg Co NC, married sec. Martha Stagon, died before 1830, Mecklenburg Co. NC

Bartlett Yeargain married Mary A. Lawrence died c 1845 Greenville SC

Sarah Yeargain married Burrell Hudson in SC

BOWLES // 1663-4 // Norfolk Co. VA (?) // On February 15, 1663/4 John Bowles was granted 350 acres on the Western Branch of Elizabeth River adjoining Capt. William Tucker; this land had been granted to Richard Jones October 18, 1655 and by him assigned to Richard POOLE and John WAITE, and then assigned to John Bowles; the patent was renewed October 12, 1675 (Nugent, page 497; page 332 shows the original grant to Richard Jones).

 

BOWLES // 1696 // Norfolk Co? VA // (On November 7, 1696 Henry Bowles, only son and heir of John Bowles, deceased, for brotherly love and affection deeded to his half-brother, John ayte(Waite), 175 acres, half of the patent granted to his father, John Bowles, in 1675.

 

BOWLES // 1725 // Bath Co. NC // Wills, etc. 1723-32, page 23. November 15,1725, Thomas Batters and Dorcas his wife, and Dinah Weaght (Waite) , all of Bath County, N. C., "heirs to our father, Mr. John Weaights(Waite), deceased, deed to Sampson Powers and Elizabeth his wife 116 acres, part of 175 acres which was given to "our deceased father, John Waite", by Henry Boweils (Bowles).

 

WAITE & BOWLES // 1728 // Bath Co. NC // . Same, page 140. February 18, 1728/9, John Stafford and Ann his wife of Bath County, N. C., she being heir to her father, Mr. John Weats(Waite), deceased, to Sampson Powers, Sr. 50 acres of her father's land.