Bertie  COUNTY  NC  Wills  Richard Pace

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Will of Richard Pace (Richard, George, Richard)
(transcribed by Patty Lobrano Nowell - March, 2002)


In The Name of God Amen, The Nintenth day of March
1736.  I Richard Pace of Bertie Prect, in the
Province of North Carolina being of sound & perfect
mind & memory Thanks be Given to God Do make & ordain
this my Last Will & Testament.  Principally & first
of all I recommend my Soul into ye hands of God that
gave it hoping through the merits death & passion of
my Savior Jesus Christ to have. ? pardon &
forgiveness of all my sins, and my body I commit to
ye earth to be decently interred and as touching my
Wordly Estate I dispose of ye same in ye following
manner & form; That is to Say.

First   I Will that all those Debts & duties as I do
own in rights or conscience to any person or persons
shall be truly contracted & paid by my Executors
hereafter named.

Item    I Give & bequeath unto my Son William Pace
that Plantation with one Hundred & Ninety Acres of
Land thereto belonging, where he now Lives , to him &
his heirs for ever.

Item    I Give & bequeath unto my Son Thomas Pace &
his heir’s for ever my Plantation where I now Live
with three hundred & twenty acres of Land thereto
belonging, reserving unto my Dearly beloved wife
Rebecha Pace ye sole use & benefit thereof during her
natural life.

Item    I give unto my Sons Richard Pace five
shillings silver money (remaining information is
illegible)

Item    I give unto my Daughters, Ann Howard, Rebecca
Bradford, Amy Green, Frances Green, Tabithe Moore,
Mary Johnson, Sarah House, each of them five
shillings, Silver money.

Item    I give & bequeath unto my Son Thomas Pace my
Plantation on Roanoak river with Two hundred & ninety
acres of Land thereto belonging; also Ten head of
cattle, one feather bed & furniture, four pewter
dishes, six pewter plates, two pewter basons, two
Iron pots, one skelet, one frying pan to him & his
heirs for ever.

Item    I give & bequeath unto my loving wife Rebecha
Pace al ye remainder of my Estate of whatsoever kind
to be by her quietly possessed during Life, and after
her decease to be equally Divided between my two Sons
William Pace and Thomas Pace for ye use and advantage
of them & their heirs for ever;

Item    I Do hereby Nominate & appoint my loving Sons
William Pace & Thomas Pace my only Executors of this
my Will Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be
my Last Will & Testament.  In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the day
& year above written.


Signed, sealed, published, pronounced, & declared by
the said Richard Pace, to be his Last Will and
Testament:          (Signed by Richard Pace)
In ye presence of us ye Subscribers;
        J Edwards, William Boon, Benjamin Dukes    Jurats


Bertie Precinct ye Feb'uy Court 1738


The aforewritten Will of Richard Pace was duly proved
in open Court by the Oaths of John Edwards, Eug?
William Boone and Benjamin Dukes  Only subscribing ? 
thereto and William Pace and Thomas Pace Exec therein
(next is illegible) Oath by Law Required.
        Test.  Jno ?


1)      Nov. 2001, North Carolina State Archives,
Raleigh, N.C., Microfilm for Bertie Co., N.C., Year
1738; p. 2991, Secretary of State Loose Papers





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