MARTIN COUNTY, NC - WILL- Neel Cone, 1782. ====================================================================== 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jennifer Cone Dec 1998 ======================================================================== Will of Neel Cone - 1782 Martin Co., NC In the name of God Amen. The Thirthieth day of July One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Two I Neel Cone of the State of North Carolina and county of Martin Planter being of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to Almighty God for the same therefor Calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is Apointed unto all men Once to died do make 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 for my body I Give and Recommend it to the Earth to be buried in A Christian Manner at the Discretion of my Executors whom I Shall Appoint Nothing Doubting but I Shall Receive the Same Again at the General Resurection by the Mighty Power of God and Touching Such Worldly Estate Wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this Life I Give and Dispose of the same in the following Manner and Form---------------------------------- Inpremises it is my Will and I Do order that in the first place all my Just Debts and Several be paid and Satisfied--- Item I give and bequeath unto my Well beloved Son Neel Cone the Land & plantation he now lives on all on the Eastward Side of the Mire Branch to the Division Line between my plantation Whereon I now live and his Beginning at A Small pine in and near the (sic) of Small Branch called the poplar Branch Joyning Benjamin Kenedys Line thence A West Course to A Small running the the Old Field Between my field----------(Word torn off) and his thence West to A Small Oake in the Old Field thence West to A small pine at the Edge of the Old Field thence A South Course to tall Marked pine all the Above Mentioned Trees being Marked Along A line of Marked trees to A bottom thence down the said bottom to the lower Cattail Marsh to him and his heirs forever---------------------------- Item I give my Plantation and all the Land to the Aforementioned Line between I and my Son Neel Cone to my two Sons Jesse Cone and Levy Cone (to be Divided marded through) and Likewise A Negro fellow Named Anderson Between my two Son Jesse Cone and Levy Cone to be divided between them as they Can Agree to them and their heirs forever --------- Likewise I Give to my Son Levy Cone A Sorrell Mare and yearling the Mare Branded thus N:C and Likewise all the cattle that is of my Proper that is Called Levy s to him they and their Increase to him and his Heirs forever----------------------------------well beloved Item I Give unto my Son William Cone the Remaining Part of my Land Lying on the South Side of the Miery X Branch the Land and Plantation he Now Lives on to him and his heirs forever Likewise A Feather Bed and Furniture to him and his Heirs for Ever-------------------------------- Item I Give unto my Daughter Sarah Joyce a cow and thirty shillings to be raised & paid out of the Estate to Her Heirs for Ever--------------- Item I Give unto my Daughter mary Harvill (Harrill?) a cow and calf or thrity Shillings to (sic) Raised and paid out of my Estate to her and her heirs for Ever------------------------- Item I Give to my Doughter Patience Morris a cow and calf or thirty Shillings to be Raised and Paid out of my Estate to her and her heirs for Ever Item I Give to my Daughter Martha Cherry A cow and calf or thirty Shillings to be Raised and Paid out of my Estate to her and her heirs for Ever Item I Give to my Daughter Charity Cone a Cow and Calf and all the Rest of all my Moveable Estate to be Equally Divided between She and my two Sons Jesse and Cone (sic)them and their heirs for Ever----------------- I likewise Make (-------not legible) and Constitute (?) my (--illegible) Executorix and Executors my loving Sons William cone and Jesse Cone of this my Last Will & Testament and Do denie all Other Wills and Testaments before me Names Willed or bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and No other to be my Last Will & Testament the Day and year above Written under my hand Signed Sealed Delivered and pronounced and Declared by the sd Neil Cone to be his Last Will & testament In Presence of us his Jesse Cooper Neel X Cone (Seal) his mark William W Brewer mark his Andrew A. Anderson mark