Mary Coore

Family/Spouse: Fnu Holland. Fnu died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Will of Thomas Coor

TRANSCRIPTION OF WILL OF Thomas CORE I (written 1751, probated 1752,

Northampton County, Colony of NC; from Secretary of State, not Wayne County, records in State Archives]

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN the twenty sixth Day of October 1751 I Thomas Core of Northampton County being very Sick and weake in body but of parfect mind and memory Thanks be to God. Therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once [to] Dye, Do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to Say -- Principally and first of all I give and Recommend my Soule into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian burial at the Discretion of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the Generall resurrection I shall receive the Same again by the mighty power of God and as Touching shuch worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give Devise and Dispose of the Same in the following maner and form - -------------------------------------------

Item.I give and bequeath unto my beloved Son Thomas Core all my waring apparrell and twenty shillings cash-------------------------

Item.I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Margett Coopper one Cow and Calf -----------------------------------------------------------

Item.I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Mary Holland the plantation whereon she now lives containing one hundred acres more or less acording to the bounds that [George?] Ward gave Edward [Harbirtt? Herbert?] a Deed for I Say to She and her hires [heirs] of her body Lawfully begotten Forever.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Elizabeth Core one Cow and Calf ----------------------------------------------------------------

Item.I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Grace Core one Cow and Calf ------------------------------------------------------------------

Item.I leave to my well beloved wife margitt Core the yuse of all my lands and negroes and personal Estate During her Natural Life or widowhood making no waste of the Said Estate and after her death or marriage the whold Esate of land and negroes and personal Estate before mentioned I give to my beloved Son Arthur Core and the Hires [heirs] of his body lawfully begotten forever --------------

I constitute make and ordain my beloved wife Margitt Core and my Son Arthur Core to be my Executors of this my Last will and Testament and I doe hereby utterly disallow renounce and disown all and every other former wills ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament . In Witness Whereof I have heareunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and year above written _________

Signed Sealed
In the presents of

James Boyte JuratThomas Core
John Right [Night?] (his mark)
Wm Murfree Jurat

Northampton County /May Court 1752

The within written Will of Thomas Core was proved in open Court by the Oath of James Boyte and Wm Murfree two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and at the same time Margaret Core and Arthur Core were qualified as Executors thereof. Which was ordered to be certified.

Test I. Edwards, Clerk of Court

Thomas Core's will -- Letters Issued 8th of June, 1752.

Thomas + Margitt Lnu. Margitt was born in 1702; died in 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]