Rowan County, NC - Will of Peter Casper, 1786

Casper, Peter - 1786 - Rowan County, NC - 
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Last Will and Testament of Peter Casper 

In the name of God Amen, I Peter Casper of the County of Rowan and State 
of North Carolina Being weak and frail in body but of Perfect Mind and 
Memory, Thanks be to God for it and all Other of his Mercies, And Calling 
to Mind the Mortality of my Body and that its Appointed for all Man Once 
to Die, do make and Ordain this my Last Will and Testament (Viz) 
Principally and first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul Into the Hands 
of Almighty God Who gave it, and my Body to the Earth to be Buried in 
Decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executors, Nothing 
Doubting but I Shall Receive the Same Again at the General Resurrection 
Thro the Mighty Power of God, and as touching those Worldly Goods 
wherewith it hath pleased God to help me in this Life I Live Divine and 
dispose of them In Manner and form as followith. I Give and Bequeath Unto 
my Beloved Wife ( Ann Mary ) Privilege of Sufficient Room for her and her 
Necessary attendants In My Dwelling House & Privilege of the Barn and Milk 
House and Yearly at Each Year She Shall have Thirty Bushels of Wheat and 
Forty Bushels of Indian Corn Three Hundred pound weight of Pork &five 
Gallons Siguar and three Cows and a Heifer Kept Summer and Winter with as 
Many of their Offspring as She Shall Think proper to Raise and Also One 
Horse Kept Summer and Winter, and Also She is to have full Privilege of 
the Gardens and also to have one acre of flax Sown in Good Ground, All 
Which Services Shall be done for her by my two sons Henry and Adam at 
their Own Cost and Charges and Charges Yearly and Each Year During the 
Time of her Natural Life – Also I Give and Bequeath Unto my Said Wife 
( Ann Mary ) All and Singular my Goods and Chattels, Rights and Credits - 
Whatsoever (Accept Such as Shall be hereafter Mentioned in This my Will as 
Legacies to my Children) Also I Give and Bequeath Unto the Heirs of my Son 
Conrad The Sum of Ten Pounds to be Equally Divided Among Those of his 
Children that Shall live to Arrive at the Year of Maturity at which time 
it Shall become due Unto them and is to be paid in Goods at Cash price, 
Also I Give and Bequeath Unto my Son John My Plantation of Land that he Now 
Lives on Containing One Hundred Acres of Land and One Waggon which is Now 
in his possession and Two Pounds in Money & one third part of all my Body 
Clothes and I do Hereby Confirm Unto him all Gifts that I have Given Unto 
him heretofore. Also, I Give and Bequeath Unto My Son Henry One Equal half 
of my Plantation of Land I now live on and one half of the property of my 
Waggon I Now have in Possession , and One Half the Mall Rings & Wedges, 
and One Shot Gunn One Pair of Swingtrees & Gears for two Horse and One 
Third Part of My Body Clothes and I do Hereby Confirm Unto Him all Former 
Gifts - Also I Give Unto my Daughter Eve One Black Mare, One Side Saddle, 
one bridal, One Brass Kettle, her Bed &furniture, my Bed-Chest, One Iron 
Pott One Spinning Wheel, and one Loom, & I do hereby Confirm Unto her all 
former gifts - Also I Give and Bequeath Unto My Son Adam One Equal half of 
my Plantation that I now Live on, and One half of my Shot Mentioned Waggon, 
One Stallion Horse, and One Brown Horse with a Star, two Axes and One 
Mattock, One Rifle Gunn &One Cow, One Half of the Mall Rings &Wedges One 
Plough and all Necessary tacklings Therunto, Gears for two Horses, One Iron 
Pott, and one Third Part of My Body Clothes, and I do hereby Confirm Unto 
him all Former Gifts - and I do hereby Constitute and Appoint My Son John 
Casper and Robert Linns Executors of this my Last Will and Testament - I do 
hereby Disavowal and make Void all other Wills Ratifying and Pronouncing 
this and No Other to be my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I we 
hereunto Set my Hand and Affix my Seal This Twenty Third day of February 
Anno Domino 1786. 
Signed Sealed and Acknowledge in presence of us } 
Robert Linns 
Peter K Casper 
John Casper 

REPRINTED FROM XEROX COPY TAKE FROM THE LIBRARY ARCHIVES OF THE NORTH 
CAROLINA DIVISION OF HISTORY K could be initial or his mark - Pat Beck 

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