Chowan County, NC - Wills - John Pipkin - 1745 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Pipkin died in present Gates County, NC, Reynoldson Township area. Gates County was formed in 1779 from Chowan County. This will is recorded on page 56, Vol XXIV of North Carolina Wills, 1663-1789. In the name of God Amen, May the twenty first day: 1745, I, John Pipkin of Chowan County in North Carolina being sick and weak but of sound mind and perfect memory, praise be to Almighty God for it, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say first and principally commending my soul into the hands of almighty God hoping through the meritorious death and passon of my Savior Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit everlasting life and my body committed to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named and as touching all such temporal estate as it has pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me, I give and dispose thereof as . . . First my will is that all my just debts and funeral charges be honestly paid and discharged. IMPRIMIS - I give and bequeath to my son Phillip Pipkin my plantation where I now live to him and his heirs forever and in case he dies before he come to age to go to my son Joseph Pipkin and as far as my land marked by a line of marked trees joining to my plantation I give and bequeath to my two sons Lewis and Isaac Pipkin being part of the survey of land I now live upon southward, I give to my son Lewis Pipkin and the west part to my son Isaac Pipkin. I give to them and their heirs forever. ITEM: I give and bequeath to my son Daniell Pipkin a peace of land upon Milly Swamp being part of the tract that his brother John Pipkin did formerly live upon, I give to him and his heirs forever and in case that either of the three, Daniell Pipkin, Lewis Pipkin, or Isaac Pipkin should dye then the said land to fall to the brother in corse. ITEM: I give to my son Joseph Pipkin a negro boy called Jack and my riding horse and bridle and saddle. ITEM: I give to my son Daniell Pipkin two leather chairs, two puter dishes and three puter plates and two cows and a calf and a young steer about two or three years old and two sheep. ITEM: I give to my son Lewis Pipkin two leather chairs, two puter dishes, three plates, two cows and calf and a young steer about two or three years old and two sheep. ITEM: I give to my son Isaac Pipkin a Negro boy called Rollin. ITEM: I give to my son Steward Pipkin a feather bed and furniture belonging to it and best leaft ovell table and two puter dishes and three plates and one iron pot, two cows and calves and young steer of two or three years old and two sheep. ITEM: I give to my son Jesse Pipkin a Negro girl called Dorety. ITEM: I give to my daughter Mary Pipkin a Negro girl called Dina. ITEM: I give and bequeath to my younger daughter Martha Pipkin a feather bed and furniture and leaft ovell table, two puter dishes and three plates and one iron pot, two cows and calf and a young steer and two sheep and Also ITEM: I give to my son Phillip Pipkin a bed and furniture and young heifer and a steer about three years old and if in case any of my children herein mentioned should die before they come to age then their part be given whatever it be negro, or household, sheep or cattle to be equally divided amongst the rest herein mentioned. ITEM: I give to my loving wife Martha Pipkin a negro woman named Hannah and her increase from the date hereof and my negro man Ned and all the remainder part of my estate goods or chattels during her natural life or widdohood and then to be equally divided amongst my children herein mentioned and LASTLY I nominate and appoint my loving wife Martha Pipkin and my son Joseph Pipkin to be To wit Executors of this my last will and testament utterly revoaking all other will or wills that hath been made by me heretofore In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and afix my seal. Signed sealed in presence of us His Henry Goodman Jr. John (x) Pipkin Timothy Goodman Mark Henry Goodman Senr. North Carolina } Chowan County } At a Court held for Said County at the Court house for the Same on the Eighteenth Day of July 1745 Present His Majestys Justices These May Certifie that Henry Goodman Senr one of the Subscribing Evidences to the within Will appeared in Open Court & Made Oath on the Holy Evangelists that he was Present & Saw John Pipkin Sign Seal Publish and Declare the within to be & Contain his last will and Testament and that the Said John Pipkin was then & at that time of Sound and Disposing Memory & that he also See Henry Goodman junr & Timothy Goodman the other Subscribing Evidence Sign their Names thereto at the Same time Then also appeared Martha Pipkin Ex'x & Joseph Pipkin Ex'r in Open Court & took the same oath in due form of law Ordered that the Hon'ble Nathaniel Rice Esqr. Secretary of this province Have notice thereof that Letters Testamentary issue thereon as the law Directs. 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