This will was probated after 1778 and is contained in Newberry Wills Volume 1,1776-1814, Section D, P.95. or Executrix Martha Newman, Box # 357, Estate 44. However Kenneth Newman who has researched this family states the following: " If you read the handwritten version, you might read the date as 1771 or 1779. I thought for years that the date was 1779. As the historan of this family line, I have studied lots of records. Bush River Baptist Church Records are hard to find. There is a record that lists the name of the second pastor of that church. He became acting pastor in 1771 because of the sudden death of Rev. Samuel Newman Other records for the years 1771 - 1779 support my conclusion." :
The will reads as follows:

THE WILL OF REVEREND SAMUEL NEWMAN

In the Name of God Amen the twenfth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy One I Samuel Newman of Craven County and province of South Caroilna being much desposed by reason of some inward ailment by which I find a decay of natural strength but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God for his Mercy Therefore waving the nominal parts usual in wills hoping and expecting the fulfilling of Gods promises to soul and body I commit them into his hand and in the next place order and dispose of what in this life he hath given me First I order that all my just debts and funeral costs be paid and adjusted, In the next place I give unto my Eldest son Samuel Newman three hundred and fifty acres of land in the province of Georgia which I have ordered to be deeded in his name to him and his heirs and assigns forever I give him also my saddle and bridle and blue riding coat and he is entirely hereby from any further right or claim to any more of my estate real or personal and further in the next place I order that my Executrix here after named sign acknowledge and deliver unto Phillp Pheagans a deed for seventy five acres of land as it is laid out for him by John Coldwell the said Fegans first paying the purchase agreed to with three cows and calves worth twelve pounds ten shillings each and he is for his abusive tongue and for striking of me and from time to time to wound my character he and his is hereby deprived of any other demand or legacy of my estate real or personal and likewise John Johnson for his undutifulness he and his wife and issue is debarred from any legacy of my estate real or personal and I hereby give unto my youngest son John Newman five hundred and twenty five acres of land with its patents whereon I now give to him and his heirs and assigns forever to bee freely and fully posessed and enjoyed by him after his mothers decease or marriage in which time she shall enjoy the same without interruption I give him likewise the utensils of husbandry to cany on the farm after his Mothers decease I give him the stone colt for a riding My watch and cloaths not before bequeathed and also my square barrel gunn with two parts of all other my moveable estate which shall continue in the care of his mother during her life or widowhood I order that my grand daughter Phebe Bartran at her marriage have a cow land calf given her out of my estate and that she afterwards have an equal share with my daughters Uriah Gary and Mary Crow after the decease of their Mother My son John then having two shares and they each one of them one I order that the go not to the cost of administmtion but each one chose a man honestly reported for themselves to make such division My Son taking first his two parts and the rest according to their seniority and I appoint my well beloved wife Martha Newman my sole Executrix of this my last will and testament ordering that this my last will be fulfilled without fraud or variation and I do hereby give two acres of land where the meeting house now stand for the use to the Separate Baptiste as long as they will repair the same for ever, and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disanull all & every other and former testaments--wills legacies & executors by me in any wise before this time named ratifying this and no other to be my only last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Day and year first above written.

signed sealed published pronounced....

Geo. Ray Wm. Stewart

Mary Ray

Samuel Newman (LS)

Recorded in Will Book ~D" Page 95 TesL Sam Lindsey, O>N>D>