The Joseph Howell (2) Family

Children:

1. Captain Joseph Howell (m. Esther Sugg)
   b. aft. 1731

2. Thomas Howell
   b. aft. 1731
   d. 1759, Edgecombe Co, NC

3. Mary Howell (m. William Maund)

4. Murphrey Howell (m. Robert Humphrey-Umphrey)

5. Martha Howell

Known Localities:

1. Isle of Wight County, Virginia

2. Edgecombe County, North Carolina

3. Halifax County, North Carolina

On 21 Aug 1745 in Halifax County, both Joseph Howell and Thomas Howell were witnesses to a deed from Benjamin Lane to his son Joseph Lane, both of Edgecombe County.

SOURCE: Halifax County, North Carolina deed book 5, page 413
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-898J-RKZV

On 11 Jan 1719 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Matthew Howell wrote his last will and testament. He named his father[-in-law] Joseph Lane Senior, Joseph Lane Junior and his wife Mary Howell as executors, with Thomas Jarrell and Arnale Pew as witnesses. The will bequeathed the following:

• wife Mary: use of negro man Harry and negro girl Moll during her widowhood & at the day of her marriage I do give the negro man to my son Thomas and girl to my son Joseph; 2,000 pounds of pork it is due to me from John Gent and 1,000 pounds of pork it is due to me from Richard Braswell, 5 pounds in cash it is due to me from Jno. Edwards, 3 pounds it is due to me in cash from Henry T. Cowers Jur; and I desire this pork and money be put to the use to purchase a plantation for my wife during her life and after her decease to my son Thomas Howell and if he died without heir to fall to the next heir, this bed that I do now ly upon and furniture belonging to it, rest of my whole estate to be equally divided between my wife and my children & if my wife does marry and should get a husband that should be harsh & unkind to my children I do desire that my father Josh Lane shall take them in his care to look after

• son Thomas Howell

• son Joseph Howell

• unborn child [wife pregnant in will]: the first child the said negro girl brings and lives to the child of my wife is now with child with

NOTE: I suspect this unborn child to be William Howell, who also appears in early land grants and records alongside Joseph and Thomas Howell.

SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9P6-K9XB

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