Notes:

NOTE 1./
... to my beloved wif and aged companion, Sarah Hobby, all my lands...during her natural life, except Lot No. 4. ( a Di agram outlines the location of each land legacy.) to daghter, Saraah, and he r husband, Levi Hawkings, Lot number four. After their mother's death, Lot No. 1 be given son, Calvin Hobby, an
d Lot No. 2 be given son, Green Hobby ....to Sarah and Levi Hawkins, land intended for Alfred Hobby. Wheat fan and wagon to Sarah Hawkins and Calvin Hobby
To grandsons, Wilson Claxton and Alexande r C. Claxton one dollar each. Sons, Alexander Hobby and Alfred Hobby, have a lready received their part. Wife, Sarah Hobby, may have use of oxen, gears, bull tongue plows, other farm tools and livestock, some furniture and supplies including cupboard.
EXCR: son, Green Hobby

March 24, 1852
WIT; Samuel a. Glenn & David McGahey probated March 7 1853 Some date provided by Ron Laff erty .
Alexander may have had two wives named Sarah. death: will located ,Marshall,Tenn
WILL OF ALEXANDER HOBBY : Recorded in Will Book “A” page 294 County Clerk’s Office
Marshal County, Tennessee. : WILL OF ALEXANDER HOBBY , B- 1769 IN NEWBERNE NORTH
CAROLINA , D- 1853 IN MARSHALL CO. TN.

I, Alexander Hobby being of sound mind and in the enjoyment of my usual health but being advanced in years, do make and publish this as my last will and testament in manner and form following, hereby revoking and making void all former will that I may have heretofore made. In the first place, I desire and so devise, that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid ou t of any moneys that I die possessed of, or which may first come into the ha nds of my executor.
SECONDLY - I give and bequeath unto my beloved wifeand aged companion Sarah Hobby all of my lands that I may die possessed of to be hers and for her maintenance during her natural life, except that portion represented by the annexed plat marked “lot No. 4, hereinafter divised to my daughter Sarah and her husband, Levi Hawkins which lands is fully represented by the following plat of my lands. I also bequeath unto my said wife her bed , bedstead, and furniture, one horse beast, one cow, one
barshear, shovel and bull tongue ploughs, one complete set of plough harness ready for use, one f alling axe also all our cupboard and kitchen furniture that she may choose to retain, to be used by her during her natural life. I also direct that she h ave the use of my wheat fan and stands, together with my wagon and oxen durin g her life as above stated and as many of my stock of hogs as she may think proper to keep. My lands I have caused to be divided into lots as represented on the foregoing platt and devise them as follows:
THIRDLY - That part t hereof represented as Lot N. 1 containing Twenty-six acres and forty five poles, bounded thus. “ Beginning at stake on the bank of the Snow branch running thence South 84 Deg. West Sixty six poles to a rock then North 81 1/4 deg. W. eighteen poles to a stake then South 78 1/2 deg. twenty three poles to tw o pawpaws thence South about seven poles to a stake then North 88 1/2 deg. We st Thirty five poles to a stake thence S. nine poles to a stake in Wm. Tomlin sons line, thence
S. 88 1/2 deg. East with his line about Thirty six poles to a beech stump thence South twelve poles to a stake then South 88 1/2 East about one hundred and twelve poles to a white walnut near
(Page 2) the Snowbr anch- thence Northwardly and with the channel of said branch to the beginning .
I give and bequeath unto my son Calvin Hobby to be his and his heirs forever after that his mothers life estate therein as specified above - shall have terminated but not before.
FOURTHLEY - I give and bequeath unto my son Gree n Hobby the lot represented as No. 2 containing about seventeen acres and twenty-seven poles “Beginning at stake on the bank of the Snowbranch

AlexanderJr married Sarah UNKNOWN before 1798. Sarah was born in 1784 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Thomas Hobby : Last Will and Testament recorded in Book 4 Page 240 C.R. 56.801.2 Johnston Co . Wills 1760-1830.
Will: Johnston,N.C. 29 June 1803
Wife: Sarah-land & plantation I now posess with all stock, household furnishings, and tools during her natural lifetime, and after death, to be disposed of as her decided:
Son: Alexander-5 ShillingsSon: Henry - 5 Shillings
Daughter Elizabeth - Loom & furniture
Son Francis - land & plantation; land I have by deed from John Norris
Son Briton - land & plantation where I now live, after death of wife.
Son William - 5 Shillings
Son Jonathan - 5 Shillings
remaining estate to be sold by Exec. and money to be divided- 1/3 to sons Henry, Alexander, & Jonathan: 2/3 to daughters Elizabeth, Sally, Francis, & son Briton.
Exec: Alexander Hobby Jr., David Bell
Wit: John Aason, J. Sanders, Wm. A. Bryan
Alexr. Hobby (signed)
Prob Feb ct. 1804

NOTE 2./ Historical Note: The Year Was 1789

The year was 1789 and in the U.S. a young government was beginning to take shape. In its first nationwide election, the popular Revolutionary War general, George Washington, became the country's first president and was sworn in at the first capitol of the United States, Federal Hall in New York City.

In France, a rebellion was underway and with the storming of the Bastille prison, the French Revolution began. In its reporting on the subject, The Times of London, England had the following to say of the conflict:

The spirit of liberty which so long lay in a state of death, oppressed by the hand of power, received its first spark of returning animation, by the incautious and impolitic assistance afforded to America. The French soldier on his return from that emancipated continent, told a glorious tale to his countrymen--"That the arms of France had given freedome to thirteen United States, and planted the standard of liberty on the battlements of New York and Philadelphia." The idea of such a noble deed became a general object of admiration, the [facets?] of a similar state were eagerly longed for by all ranks of people, and the vox populi had this force of argument--"If France gave freedom to America, why should she not unchain the arbitrary fetters which bind her own people.

Later that year, the Marquis de Lafayette, with the advice of Thomas Jefferson who was at the time the American ambassador to France, drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It was adopted by France's National Assembly in August and ratified by Louis XVI in October.

There was unrest in other parts of the world as well. Sweden and Russia were at war, and briefly, Norway had joined the conflict, although a peace treaty was signed in July 1789.

In a smaller, but well-known conflict, the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty was also in the year 1789. On April 28, part of the crew of the Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied and set Captain William Bligh and eighteen crewmembers adrift. Bligh managed to get the boat some 3,600 miles to Timor. Some of the mutineers were captured and prosecuted--three were hanged, while others, including Fletcher Christian ended up on Pitcairn Island, where some of their descendants live to this day.

In 1789, there was an epidemic of influenza in New England, New York, and Nova Scotia, which resulted in many deaths due to secondary cases of pneumonia. The new president was among those who fell ill. He caught a cold while visiting Boston, and later, was affected more seriously with influenza, which was dubbed Washington Influenza.

AlexanderSr married Sarah UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]