Craven County, NC - Will of John Depitt, 1724

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County 028,  Date Recorded  1724 SS 876/4, Copy Original SS/AR
 
North Carolina  John Depitt Will 1723/24 p. 1002
 
In the name of God Amen the 17th day of January 1723/24 I John Depitt of 
the County of Bath Planter being very Sick and Weak inn Body but of perfect 
Mind and Memory Thanks be Given unto God therefore Calling unto mind the 
Totality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to 
Dye 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 unto the hands 
of 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 I shall Receive the same again by the might 
Power of God and as Touching such Wordly Estate where with it hath pleased 
God to Bless me in this life  I Give devise and dispose of the same in the 
following manner and form
Item I give and bequeath to Penon Depitt my dearly beloved wife the hundred 
acres of Land witch I Bought of Peter Hand  and kept all my flock and all 
my housses and all my household goods Debts and mouveble Effects and if so 
be that Penon Depitt my beloved Wife marries my will is that the children 
shall come in heirs She having her thirds if not having the same during 
her life time 
Item I give and Bequeath to my well Loved son Petter Deiptt my plantation 
in Machapongo County two hundred acres.
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my well beloved Son John Depitt that piece 
of Land that I bought from Cass Brice Containing two hundred acres
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and I likewise constitute and make and ordain for my Executors of this my 
last will ands Testament my well Beloved wife Penon Depitt and Ann Depitt 
my well Beloved Dafter and I do hereby utterly Dissallow Revoke and Disannul 
all and every other former Testament wills Legacies and Bequest and Exects 
by me in any way before named willes and Bequeaths Ratifing and Confirming 
this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament In Wittness whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and year above written.
 
Signed, Sealed Published                                    his
pronounced and Declared by                       John(x)Depitt
the Said John Depitt as his                                 mark
last Will and Testament in the
presence of us Reg
The Subscribers                                   
Peter Hand
John Fonvielle  Ju
John Cornick Ck
 
At a Court held at Newbern the Town ye said 17th day of June 1724 the 
witnessed will was proved in open Court by the oath of ye said Execs and 
is Recorded here 
Cyrus C. Metcalf CkCt
 
The ye said Pene Depitt made Oath in open Court to full fill her husbands will 
C Metcalf CkCt
 
Transcription by Jean Mayo Hirsch

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