Craven County, NC - Will of Peter Hand, 1730/1

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S108.198 North Carolina Archives
1 March 1730  Peter Hand Will
 
N. Carolina
 
In the name of God Amen  March first 1730  I Peter Hand being sick and weak 
of body but of perfect mind and memory. Blessed be the Almighty God for ye 
same and I make ordain & constitute this to be my last will and Testament 
and do Revoke, Disavow and make void all other wills and testaments be me 
made.  First I give and bequeath my Soul unto ye hand of Almighty God who 
gave it hoping at ye resurrection to receive ye Soul again in full pardon of 
my sins through Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer  and as to what worldly 
goods ye Lord has seen fit to endue me with  I depose of as followed after 
my Lawful debts be fully paid and funeral charges my body decently buried 
after ye direction of my Executor Ann Hand These I give and bequeath unto my 
loving wife Ann this track of land which I live and five hundred acres for 
her natural life then ye said land to fall to my Daughter Elizabeth Hand and 
heirs after  her natural life to my daughter Mary and Heirs  after her 
natural life to fall to my Daughter Joan Hand and Heirs  for natural life 
ye said land to fall unto Richard Hart or every other I give my loving wife 
two cows & calfs and all ye steers a Rone three year old and two horses and 
all my hoggs and to my daughter Elizabeth six cows & calfs & one two year 
mare To my Daughter Mary six cows & calfs & one two year old mare and to my 
Daughter Joan six cows & calfs and one two year old mare and ye remaining 
part of ye stock and sold & to be Disbursted to pay for learning of my 
children and Richard Hart & likewise to have learning with ye  Children and 
leave him one Gun and one hand saw to chisels one square and compass two 
plains one broad axe and two cows and calfs and ye children to have ye 
increase and to my loving wife one negroe man and for her natural life and 
said Wife and likewise all ye money and credit that is due me and my youngest 
child Joan and to my daughter Elizabeth one negroe aggy and to my Daughter 
Mary one negroe Russ and to my loving wife all my household goods now thought 
one and for after.  I make and Constitute my loving wife Ann Hand and brother 
John Dept jointly  my executors of this my last will & testament witness my 
hand the day above written.
 
Signed in the presence  of us                        Peter Hand Seal
Wm Fox
James Green
    his
John x Dept           
    mark

                      N Carolina }    Att a Court held at ye Craven Precinct              
                                      Court house in Newbern 
                                      The 16 Day of march 1730/1
Presented to His Majesty Justices Esquire.
The within will was proved for said oath of James Green One of said Enedena
thereunto ye sd Test. Caleb Metcalf Clk Crt
 
The said Ann Hand Executor of said Will made Oath to Perform said Trust 
deposed in her Affidavit
                        C Metcalf Clk Crt 
 
Transcription by Jean Mayo Hirsch

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