- Will of Noel Rentfrow
In the name of God Amen I, Noel Rentfrow of the State of North Carolina and the County of Johnston being of sound and perfect mind and memory blessed be God do this day of August in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen make and publish this my last will and testament in manner of following that is to say---
First I leave to my beloved wife Charity Rentfrow the land and plantation where on I now live including the plantation also one bed and furniture, 8 head of cattle, 4 head of sheep, 1 sorrel horse, all my household and kitchen furniture except my feather beds during her natural life or Widowhood,
Thence 150 acres of the land to my Beloved son Noel Rentfrow adjoining Stephen Grices land, James Odom, and the residue of the legisee to belong to my beloved son Wiley Rentfrow.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Sarah Sanders the sum of 20 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Patience Barnes the sum of 20 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved son William Rentfrow the sum of 20 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Stephen Rentfrow the sum of 20 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Penelope Barnes the sum of 20 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Josiah Rentfrow 1 bed and furniture, also two head of sheep, also the sum of 20 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved son James Rentfrow the sum of 10 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Edith Ferrell the sum of 10 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Noel Rentfrow the horse bridle and saddle that is now called his, 1 bed and furniture, 2 head of sheep, also the sum of 20 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Charity Rentfrow 1 bed and furniture, 2 head of sheep, also the sum of 20 shillings.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Zilphia Rentfrow 1 bed and furniture, 2 head of sheep, also the sum of 20 shillings,
Also: all working utensils of all kinds I lend to my beloved wife Charity Rentfrow during her natural life or widowhood, and thence to my son Wiley as before,
Also: all the hogs that shall be found in my mark lend to my wife Charity and Wiley as above,
Also: 4 head of sheep lend to my beloved wife and Charity and Wiley as before,
I leave all my property not mentioned before in legisee to be sold and the money arising therefrom be appropriated to the payment of debts and several legisee and if any remainder-to be appropriated to the use of Josiah, Noel, Charity, Zilphia, and Wiley Rentfrow.
And I hereby make and ordain my beloved son William Rentfrow, and Hardy Hinnant Executors to this my last will and testament
In witness whereof I the said Noel Rentfrow have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Noel (X) Rentfrow
Witneses: Jesse Grice, Jesse Hinnant
Probate August Court 1819
Book 9/ 219
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- NOEL RENTFROW
b1739 NC died 1819 NC married Charity (Cherry) Hinnant PS NC
(DAR Patriot Records, Millennium Edition 2003, Vol. III, page 2436.)
See the NSSAR application of
Winifred Walker Sharpe Ballard
NSDAR # 498342 dated 12 Apr 1952.
See also NSDAR application # 374242-Annie Lee Walker Sharpe
Noel Rentfrow provided material aid and is listed as a Patriot.
The application referred to above indicates that Noel Rentfrow was the son of James Rentfrow. That is an error.
The 1799 Tax List of Johnston County refers to Noel and James Rentfrow as brothers.
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Dobbs Tax list (includes the area now in Southeast Wilson and all of Wayne) shows Noel as a poll tax in the home of William Ridgeon in 1769. The "age out" of Noel's poll taxation in Johnston in conjunction with this point to Noel being a posthumous son of John Renfrow, born late 1748 to his new widow Tomasin, who later married William Ridgeon and they all moved to the area of Southern Wilson County by 1764.
Noel was granted or purchased several tracts totaling 1000 acres in the Buckhorn area (NC 581-NC 42) of Wilson County (Johnston at the time), the first of these is 350 acres in 1779.
There is record of N. Rentfro's Revolutionary War service from 1781.
The names of Noel's children come from his will, their (at least the sons) ages from poll information Johnston County Tax.
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post-em:
This is the 'R" section of the 1769 Dobbs County NC tax list showing "Noal" (ie, "Noel") Renfrow in the home of William Ridgen (the step father of Tomasin's Renfrow children). This means he was 16 or older (law for 1769) but not out on his own yet, perfectly jiving with a 1748 or 1749 birth for Noel only months (less than 9) after his father (John) wrote his will, a birth would be expected since William and James were toddlers at most at time of the will, meaning Tomasin was still having children
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Abt 1748 - 1819 (~ 70 years)
