Nicholas Cope Will - 1785 - Rowan County, NC - Wills

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NAME: Melissa Bailey Duggins
EMAIL: mduggins@infoave.net
SURNAMES: Coape, Cope, Adams, Harrowood, Cleck
DATE: Jan 03 1999
QRYTEXT: Last Will and Testament of Nicholas Cope
Rowan Co. NC Will Book C: 175
Will written 9 Aug. 1785; Probated 8 Nov. 1785

In the Name of God Amen I Nicholas Coape of the County of Rowan And
Province of North Carolina being very Sickly and weak in or in perfect
Health of body but or and in perfect mind and memory thankes be Given
unto God Calling unto mind the Mortality of my body and flesh that it is
appointed for all men once to Die 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 into the hand of Almighty God that Gave it And my body
I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian burial at the
Direction of my Executor nothing Doubting but at the Generall
Resurrection I Shall Receive the Same Again by the mighty Power of God
and as Touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bles
me in this life I give demise And Dispose of the Same in the fowing
manner And first I Give And Bequeath to Catherin My Dearly beloved wife
Her Bed and One of My Cows And A spinning Wheel And A Iron Pot And All My
Mova!
ble affairs Except What Goes to pay the Debts I Do Leave to My Daughter
Elisabeth One Cow And Calf I Leave to My Son Phillip one Hundred and
Sixty Acres of Land begining at John Harrowood Corner Tree on the river
Runing up th River five Rod Above his Upper fence Runing with the
Dividing Line for Compliment between John Harrowood and Phillip Coape And
the Rest of My Land to my son John Each of them to Pay fourteen Pounds
(word unreadable) Money Apeace to My Daughter Dority Eight Pounds to his
Daughter Catharin Six Pounds to My Daughter Elisabeth Nine Pounds to Jost
Coapes Oldest Sun five Pounds when hecomes of Age Phillip Coape is to Pay
Dority Eight in the same year And Catharin to be Paid in the Next Year
the said Phillip Coape and John Coape is to be Joiners in Paing of her In
the Payment John Coape is to Pay three Pounds and the said Phillip Coape
the Remainder I Do hereby Leave Jacob Gobel And Phillip Coape Executors
of My Worldly affairs In Witnes whereof I have Hereunto !
Set my hand and Seal this Ninth Day of August One Thousand Seven Hundred
Eighty five

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced And Decared by the Said Nicolas Coape
as his Last will and Testament in the Presence of Each Other have
Hereunto Subscribed Our Names

Jesse Adams
Nicolas Cleck }JW (his X mark)
John Harrowood
(his X mark)

Nicolas Cope
(his signature).


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