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Edith Hicks record for her husband Daniel Hicks' estate:
Court for April 3, 1740.
On the attachment Obtained by John Wall gent against the Estate of Edith Hix for Sevan pounds 14 sh and 3 pence half penny Curt. money due by the ballance of an Account the said Attachment being returned Executed on all the Corns and Tobacco and all other whatsoever of the Estate of the said Edith Hix the said Wall thereupon came into Court and proved the aforesaid ballance of Accounts to be Justly due to him from the said Edith Hix. Judgment is therefor granted him for the Same. . . said Hix is ordered to pay together with his costs by him about his Suit in this behalf. Expended Als Exa and its further ordered that the aforesaid Goods Attached be sold according to Law.
From Order Book 1, page 302, Brunswick County, Virginia

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Edith Fonville Hicks Kibbles will:
In the Name of God Amen this Eighteenth Day of January (AnnoDomini) 1772 I Edeth Kibbles of Onslow County in the province of North Carolina, Widow, being ancient and weak, but in perfect mind and Memory,Thanks be given unto God for the same, calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to dye; do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. Vizt.
Principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it, and my Body to the dust to be buried in a Christian like and Decent manner at the discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection, I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God.  And as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give, devise, and dispose, of the same, in the following manner and form
Imprimis that is to say the first of all my just debts to be paid,
Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Lucy Fonville, one real skin Trunk, one Box Iron and heaters, and the half of all my wearing Apparel and the other half to Mary Williams.  
Item, I give and bequeath to my Grandaughter Esther Williams, the Daughter of Joseph Williams and Mary his Wife, my old Negroe Woman named Anaka, likewise my riding Saddle, and one Bell mettle Skillet, to her and her heirs forever.  
Item,it is my desire that my Bed and Bed furniture should be equally divided betwixt my two Daughters, Mary, and Lucy,
Item. I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Son James Kibbles my Negroe Boy named Dick, likewise the remainder of what Goods I shall be possesed of at the time of my Death real or personal, (after paying the above Legacies), to him and his heirs for ever.  
I likewise Constitute and appoint my Son James Kibbles my whole and Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, and do hereby disallow, disannul, and revoke; all and every other and former Wills and Testaments, bequeaths, or Executors, before any ways before this Time named, Willed, or bequeathed; making and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament, in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above mentioned.
(the words /again and Skin/in the Seventh and eleventh Lines being first interlined before signed  . . . . . . . . . . .)                     

                             her mark       Edeth  E  Kibbles    (Seal)
 Test~Benester Lester
John Robinson
Joseph Preston
[The above Will was transcribed from the Original and from a copy obtained at the North Carolina State Archives.  The Original Will does not show Joseph Preston as a subscribing witness due to the condition of the original.  Also in the original Will - "Benester Lester" is shown as a subscribing Witness while his name is shown as "Banister Lester" in the copy]