CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Henry Cook - 1801

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Will of Henry Cook

In the name of god amen; the 5th day of June, eighteen hundred & one, I 
Henry Cook of Chatham County, & State of North Carolina, being of sound
mind and memory, & in perfect health, Thanks to almighty god, but
calling to remembrance the uncertain Estate of this transatory life, &
that all flesh must yield to death, when it shall please to call, do 
constitute, ordain & declare this my last will and testament in manner 
& for following.  To Wit; that is to say first, that my debts be pays 
by my executor hereafter named---
Item, I give & | be two negroes one man named Dick and one woman named 
Hannah during| (italics between brackets was written and then line 
struck through it, and I don’t know how to show that on my computer) 
bequeath to my well beloved wife Ann Cook ------- --------( two words
where page is torn) one man named Dick and one woman named Hannah 
during her life or widowhood and after to be sold and the money equally
divided between my three daughters and one son towit; Gilly, Nancy, 
Sally, and Marcillus and the money in hand to -------- (name or word I 
can’t make out) land for three sons towit, Jarrott, Neverson, & 
Marcillus then Moses Cook, --Jedediah-Ransom--& Johnston to have ten 
shillings each & what land I hold at my death with the household 
furniture stock of all kinds & plantation ---------(page torn) to be 
sold & the money to be equally divided between my wife & three 
daughters above named & my three youngest sons Jarrott, Neverson, and 
Marcillus.  Item, I give and bequeath to my youngest son Marcellus one 
negro boy named Ben; I also constitute appoint (struck through) & 
ordain & appoint Abraham Cook my brother and Jedidiah Cook my son 
executors to execute & ---- ----(two words scratched out) perform all 
things according to the intent & meaning herein contained-----
Signed in presence of} 
                     Henry Cook
John Rosson 
Bethany Rosson
Sarah Rosson

Reverse side says: Henry Cook will
Proved Nov. 1801 (but could possibly say 1806)
Ab. Cook exs.