ORANGE CO, NC WILL MOSER, Adam - 1763 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Larry Noah lrnoah@bigfoot.com This was copied with permission from Moser Genealogy and History Home Page. WILL OF ADAM MOSER (A Verbatim Transcript) IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Adam Moser late of Hereford Township, in the county of Berks in the Province of Pennsylvania, now of Stinking Quarter, in the county of Orange and the Colony of North Carolina (Yoeman) being of good bodily health, of sound mind memory & understanding, Blessed be God, having considered the uncertainty of life & the certainty of death, thought proper to settle my worldly affairs & I do hereby make my last will & testament in mannerfollowing. That is to say hereby reckoning all wills & testaments, by me heretofore made, I do declare this and no other to be my last will and testament. Principally & of all things I do recommend my soul into the hands of God & my body to the earth to be buried in a decent manner. at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named. And my mind & will is that all my just debts, funeral expenses be duly paid & satisfied & I do give & bequeath unto my sons Anthony, Francis,& Adam & to my daughters Elizabeth & Anna Phillipina the sum of five shillings lawful money of Pennsylvania aforesaid I having already advanced & given to each of them several sums of money & sundry goods & I do give & bequeath unto my son Tobias the sum of fifty pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania aforesaid & I give & bequeath unto my son Jacob the sum of sixty two pounds ten shillings lawful money of Pennsylvania aforesaid which said two several sums of money remain now in the hands of Henry Bootz & Adam Bootz & I have their two Several Bonds for the sums bearing date respectively the twenty first day of February 1761. And as for and concerning all the rest of my estate both & personally whatsoever & wheresoever I do give & devise the same unto my sons Tobias & Jacob, their heirs & assigns forever to be equally divided between them part and share alike & of this my last will & testament I do hereby appoint my said sons Tobias & Jacob executors. In witness whereof the said Adam Moser set my hand & seal hereunto the fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred sixty three. Signed sealed published & declared by ) Adam Moser the testator in the foregoing ) named for & as his last will & testament ) Adam Moser (Seal) in the presence of who at his request & ) in his presence have set our hands as ) witnesses hereunto Francis Nash ) Ralph McNair ) Phillip Jackson ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MEMORANDUM whereas Adam Moser of Stinking Quarter, in the County of Orange in the Colony of North Carolina (Yoeman) hath lodged with me Phillip Boam of the City of Pennsylvania, in the Province of Pennsylvania, Shopkeeper, two certain Bonds from Henry & Adam Bootz to the said Adam Moser, bearing the date respectively the the 21st Day of February 1761, the one of them being for fifty pounds, payable the tenth of May 1765 & the other of them being payable for Sixty two pounds ten shillings, payable the the tenth May 1766 and whereas the said Adam Moser by his letter of Attorney, bearing said date herewith, so authorized and impowered, me the subscribed to receive the money on the Several Bonds on the Bond date, in order that I may pay the same to the said Adam Moser his heirs Executors Administrators or assigns at my Covenant, after I have received, the respective monies due on the said two Several Bonds or any of them, Now I do promise to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Adam Moser his heirs Executors Administrators or assigns all the monies that I shall recover & receive for & on account of the said Several Bonds In witness whereof I the J. Phillip Boam have hereunto set my hand & seal the fourth day of August 1763 Sealed & Delivered in the presence of us ) Phillip Boam (Seal) Peter Miller Jacob ????? ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- At an Interim Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions began & held for the County of Orange at the Courthouse in Charlesbough on the second Tuesday in August in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred & Sixty three. Present his Majesties & the Executors of the aforesaid will & memorandum was duly proved by the oaths of Francis Nash Ralph McNair & Phillip Jackson & ordered to be recorded Test James Watson C.C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: 1. North Carolina Archives 2. The will and memorandum were actually proved in November 1763, not August 1763 3. The transcript is verbatum, including misspellings, double words, etc. 4. 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