Tripp-NC Wills-1857-1863

Slave Information Installment No. 1

Please accept the attached information and let me know if it is of any use to you.  Best Regards, Bill Sparrow

Dear Jamila,
	This is installment No. 1 of the information that I was talking about. Lavenia Tripp Sparrow is mentioned in the Codicil to a will by Sarah Tripp. Under the remarks column to the will it says; " I have willed the negroes Lettuce and her children Clarence, Harriett, and Hoyt to my daughter L. T. Sparrow for fear of trouble." This codicil is dated March 7, 1863 and was probated in the September Term of 1864. Lavenia was also willed a negroe by her brother Robert Tripp in January 7, 1857.

The following information was scanned from the book; "Beaufort County, North Carolina, Will Abstracts, 1720 - 1868". Compiled by Beaufort County Genealogical Society.

TRIPP, Robert

Page: 18 (351). Original. Date: 7 Jan. 1857. Probate: March Term 1857, oaths J. W. Hammond, B. T. Bonner.
Sisters: Elizar, Mary and Lavenia, each a  negro.
Brothers: Benjamen and William, each a negro.
Mother:(unnamed).
Brother Benjamin's son, Robert Tripp.
Executor: Brother William H. Tripp.
Signed.
Witnesses: John W. Hammond, Bryan T. Bonner.
Remarks: also recorded Orphan Book K, pp. 256-7.

TRIPP, Sarah

Page: 20 (355). Original. Date: 7 March 1863.
Probate: Sept. Term 1864, oaths William H. Harrison and Horace J. Butt. Sons: Benjamin F. Tripp, William H.Tripp.
Daughter: Eliza Ellison, wife of Henry A. Ellison.
Daughters: Lavenia T. Sparrow, Mary E. Bonner (wife of John B. Bonner).
Executor: Son: William H. Tripp.
Signed.
Witnesses: William H. Harrison, Thomas G. Sparrow, Joseph Tripp, Horace J.Butt.
Remarks:
Codocil:  "I have willed the negroes Lettuce and her children Clarence, Harriett and Hoyt to my daughter L. T. Sparrow for fear of trouble."
Sarah Tripp. Also recorded Orphan Book L, pp. 459-61.
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I hope that this helps you some in your research. I will look tomorrow for the information from the family bible that I was talking about. I have a suggestion for you. I suggest that you think about  buying the following book:

	"Beaufort County, North Carolina Will Abstracts 1720 - 1868".

The book was compiled by Beaufort County Genealogical Society. I make this suggestion, because when I started looking up the pages that I knew about I realized how big a job it was to look up all of the I information that I was talking about. It seems that almost every page or two had some reference to negroes with and without names. I feel that this book is a gold mine of the type of information that you are looking for. Even if it doesn't mention a specific name it does name the number of people that it is talking about, the name of the owner, and the people to whom ownership is being transfered to, and the specific location -- that is Beaufort County, North Carolina. 
	The book can be obtained from:
		Beaufort County Genealogical Society
		P. O. Box 1089
		Washington, North Carolina
The price that I paid was $30.00 post paid. I have found this book of some 440 pages to be of great help to me.

Best Regards, Bill Sparrow

Contributed by: "William E. Sparrow, Sr."  ollie1@erols.com
By way of:  jamila@stanford.edu