GATES COUNTY, NC - Will - Thomas Parker, 1717 ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: Raymond P. Fouts Apr 2000 ========================================================================== Will of Thomas PARKER, 1717, Chowan County NC Sec. of State Wills, NC Archives, Raleigh, NC. In the name of God Amen the twenty third day of January in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and seventeen I Thomas PARKER of ye precinct of Chowan in the County of Abermarl in ye province of north Carolina being vey sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God therefore Calling to mind the mortality 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 principaly and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buryed in a desent and Christian /manner/ at the descretion of my executrix nothing doubting but at the generall Resurrecttion I shall receive the same again by the Almighty power of God, and as for touching such worldly estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give demis?e and dispose of the same in the following manner and form . . . . Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas PARKER one Cow an Calf to be paid unto him out of my stock at his freedom sh? they an their increes for ever. Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph PARKER one Cow an Calf to be paid unto him out of my stock at his freedom they and their increes for ever.. Imprimis I give and bequeath all my moveable estate goods and Chatels to be equaly divided amongst my Children Thomas PARKER an Joseph PARKER sarah PARKER John PARKER William PARKER and ffrances PARKER Iten I do desier my dearly beloved wife Jeane PARKER whome I like wise Constitu/te/ make and ordain my soul executrix of this my last will and testament to have the /use/ of my moveable estate tell my children shall be of age or so long as she remains a widow and if she doth me?ry for her to have a Childs portion and I do desier my _ons shall be of age __ posse what they have at ye age of eighteen years and my daughter at ye age of sixteen years and I do hereby utterly disallow Revoke and disannul all and every other former testament wills legaces and beque__ [crossed out] Requests and executers by me in any ways before named willed and bequea?thed Ratifiing and Confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above == writen. . . his Thomas T? PARKER mark signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Thomas PARKER to be his last will and testament in the presents of us the subscribers John PARKER jurat Chowan _ ?October Court 1717 Henry O LAM Provd in Open Court by ye mark Oath of Jno: PARKER Beniomin EVANS ___ HICKS Clk