Cleveland County NcArchives Wills.....Cornwell, Micajah June 2, 1846 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn E. Wesson Lynn@fastcode.com July 21, 2014, 5:03 pm Source: Will Docket Feb. Court 1849 [cleaveland County] Page 94 Written: June 2, 1846 Recorded: February 1849 Will of Micajah Cornwell In the name of God Amen. I Micajah Cornwell of the County of Cleaveland and the State of North Carolina being of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling unto mind the mortality of the body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to Say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the direction of my executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection that I shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give dismiss and dispense of the same in the following manner and form. First I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Lydia my home plantation lying on the Weast side of the 1st Broad containing two hundred acres be the same more or less to dispose of the same as she sd. Lydia may think proper at her death and all my stock of every description household and kitchen furniture of every description and the present crop on said plantation as to my interest and all the rest of my effects on sd. Plantation at the present time, to dispose of the same as sd. Lydia may deem fit and proper todo with the same. 2nd I give and bequeath unto my son Samuel Cornwell one dollar to be paid in money by my executors and also I give and bequeath unto the heirs of George Cornwell one dollar to be paid by executors. 3rd I give and bequeath unto my daughter Nancy Wood one dollar in money to be paid by my Executors. 4th I give and bequeath unto my daughter Rachel Horn one dollar to be paid in money by my Executors. 5th I give and bequeath unto my son Martin Cornwell one dollar to be paid in money by my Executors. 6th I give and bequeath unto my son Abner Cornwell one dollar to be made in money by my Executors. 7th I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elviry Gardner one dollar to be paid in money by my Executors. And I do hereby utterly disallow and revoke and disavaill all and every other former will heretofore. In witnesss whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 2nd day of June 1846. his Micajah X Cornwell mark Signed and sealed publish pronounced and declared by the Sd. Micajah Cornwell as his last will and testament in the presence of us J.D. Weathers John L. Gladden (Jurat) William J. Collins [Transcribed by Lynn Wesson, Hillsborough, NC, June 2014] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/cleveland/wills/cornwell3169wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb