From “Swindell Genealogy in North Carolina Web Site” Family web site
Will of Robert SWINDELL signed 15 Apr 1823 in Hyde Co., NC.
In the name of God Amen. I Robert SWINDELL of the state of North Carolina and County of Hyde being weak in body but of sound and disposing mind and memory blessed be God. Do make publish and declare this instrument of wrighting to contain my last will and testament (Viz first I recomend my soul into the hands that gave it and my body to be buried in Christian like maner and whats worldly estates it hath been please God to blys me with I devise and dispose in the following manner. First I linds to by beloved wife Sally SWINDELL the one half of my plantation where I now live with all the privilidges thare to belongging during her natural life. I also lind her by horse and
rocking chair and one bed and furniture her chair and all the kitchen furniture and my horse cart ______negro woman by the of mosearr and one Linen Wheal the above land given to my wife at her dicease I give to my son Oliver SWINDELL the half of my chairs in the house. I give to my wife. Item 2 I give and bequeath to my son W. G. SWINDELL one bed and furniture and one trunk. Item 3 I give and bequeath to my son Emmery SWINDELL one bed and furniture. Item 4 I give and bequeath to my daughter Mahala SWINDELL one bed and furniture and one trunks and one Linen Wheal. Item 5 I give and bequeath to me daughter Prifsilla SWINDELL one bed and furniture and one linen wheal. Item I give to my son Samuel SWINDELL one bead and furniture and one chest. Item I give and bequeath to my son Thomas D. SWINDELL one feather bed and furniture and one negrowoman by the name Moreaer after the dicease of my wife and one hundred dollars in cash. Item I decree that out of the crop and ______myy wife and family shall have one years support and the use of my hose mill. So long as they keep her up in good order. Item all the above property lots of to my wife Sally SWINDELL. Viz the beds and furniture _____and chare kitchen furniture and chares and horse carts at her decease I give to my son Oliver SWINDELL. Item all my plantation and maeunical? And blacksmiths tooles I give in manner as follows to be equilly devided between my wife Sally SWINDELL and W. G. SWINDELL, Emmery SWINDELL and Oliver SWINDELL, Samuel SWINDELL and Thomas SWINDELL and Elisabeath Swaim and Mahala SWINDELL and Pryscla SWINDELL. I also constitute and appoint by wife Sally SWINDELL and my son W. E. SWINDELL my Ecetrin and Ececutor. To this my last will and testament in witness where of I have here unto set my hands and seal this seventeenth day of April 1823.
Robert SWINDELL (seal)
in prisince of
Emory SWINDELL &
Heremiah Farrow
May term 1823
Hyde CJ Sr The last will and testament of Robert SWINDELL was
produced in court and proved by the oath of Jeremiah Farrow a witness
thereto and ordered to be recorded. ___B. Iarpirch
recorded in book 7 page 447
This information is from “The Swindell/Swindle Family History” web site at
Notes for JOSIAH SWINDELL: He signed his will on 07May 1804. His estate was probated in 1806. He left mechanic tools equally divided among sons, furniture to daughters and most of his estate to his wife, Ester.
"In the name of God amen I Josiah Swindell of the State and County aforesaid being weak in body but of sound mind and memory and both called to mind the uncertainty of this life and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, rivocking and disannulling all other wills and testaments whatever before by me made and done and for such worldly goods it both pleased God to bestow or give ___ leave in the manner and form following, that is to say leave and bequeath to my son Robert Swindell all my blacksmith shop ___ and instruments thereto belonging, and one handsaw and one crosscut saw and all my ___ debts that is due to me at my decease -- and as for the remaining on residue of the ___ tools I leave to be equally divided amongst my five sons: Caleb Swindell, Ananias, Samuel, Willis and Robert Swindell. (?) leave and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Esther Swindell all the remaining part ___ of my estate or property to be firmly to be her right and property ___ natural lifetime, and ___ at her decease I desire that the remnant shall be equally divided among my ten following children, ___, this the fulfilling of my debts is that my son Robert Swindell to have one.
Children of JOSIAH SWINDELL and SARAH are:
i. SAMUEL SWINDELL, b. 1754, Hyde Co., N.C.; d. 1807, Hyde Co., N.C.
ii. ABRAHAM SWINDELL, b. 1755, Hyde Co., N.C.
Children of JOSIAH SWINDELL and ESTHER BALANCE are:
iii. CALEB SWINDELL, b. 1757, Hyde Co., N.C.
iv. ANANIAS SWINDELL, b. 1758; d. 1810, Hyde Co., N.C.; m. MARGARET.
v. ROBERT SWINDELL, b. 1758.
vi. WILLIS SWINDELL, b. May 05, 1763, Hyde Co., N.C.; d. May 09, 1851, MadisonCo., IN.
vii. MARGARET SWINDELL, b. 1764.
viii. PRISCILLA SWINDELL, b. 1769; m. EZEKIEL HARRIS, January 05, 1785, SwanQuarter, Hyde Co., North Carolina.
ix. DELILAH SWINDELL, b. 1770.
x. ANN SWINDELL, b. 1776; m. JOHN MEEKINS.
xi. ELIZABETH SWINDELL, b. 1778; m. JEREMIAH FARROW.