CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Peter Quakenbush, Sr. - 1793

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Peter Quakenbush Sr. Will, dated July 24, 1793, no probate date
Chatham Co., NC Record of Estates, Vol. 1, pp. 47(b), 48, 48(b)
NC State Archives film # C.022.50001


In the name of God Amen, I Peter Quakenbush Senior, of Chatham County 
North Carolina being Sick and Weak in body but of perfect mind and 
memory, thanks be give unto god Calling unto mind the mortality of my 
body and knowing that it is apointed for all men once to die do make 
and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to say principally 
and first, I desire my body be deacently buried at the discretion of 
my Executors and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has 
pleased God to favour me with in this life I give demise and dispose of
the same in the following manner and form
first I give and bequeath to my son John Quakenbush that part of my 
Land whear he lives to begin at the corner of his house runing south 
with my line as far as Strait with the South fence of that field 
ajoining the Road thence with a line to run Strait as the fence on the 
South side of the above said field to the branch thence to run up said 
branch on the West side to the fence that comes to said branch Just 
above the brick kiln thence crose said branch runing nearly North East 
to a conditional Corner made Between Thomas Steel and himself thence 
East to a Corner thence North to the Corner of my Land thence West with 
said line to the first mentioned Corner and likewise another peeas of 
land begining at Isaac Lee's North East Corner runing nearly East by 
North to the road near a Smawl post Oak stum between the fence and road 
thence South to William Lees Corner at a pond and Still South to a 
Corner thence West to Issac Lees Corner thence North with Lees line to 
the first Station likewise at my wearing apaarel__
Secondly the remaining part of my Land I give to my son Peter 
Quakenbush excepting my half of the meadow with the new ground where my 
Corn is with liberty of part of the house and Shop likewise part of the 
Orchard which i reserve for the term of three years as a place of home 
and some to subsist on for as many of my Daughters as remains single 
after my decease also I give to my daughter Sarah Holaday the sum of 
Twenty five pounds Curent money of this State and two hundred and 
seventy Eight pounds of Iron that I let Henry Holady have __ 
also I give to my Daughter Ann Elizabeth Quakenbush the sum of twenty 
pounds Curent money as above __ Also I my Will is that all my moveable 
property be sold and after paying the above mentioned sums the
remaining part to be equally divided between Ann Elizabeth Quakenbush 
Rhoda Quakenbush and Reache(l)?  Quakenbush also I apoint and ordain 
John & Peter Quakenbush the sole Executors of this my last Will and 
Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoak and disannul all and 
every other former Testaments Wills Legacies Executors by me in anywise
before named Willed and bequeathed ratifeing and Confirming this and no
other to be my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have 
hearunto set my hand and seal this Twenty forth day of July in the year 
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety Three

Signed sealed published and declared to be Peter Quakenbush last Will 
and Testament in the presents of us
Samuel Holady Signed Peter Quakenbush {Seal}
A Copy Test John Ramsey C. C.