GREENE COUNTY, TN - WILLS - George Cook, 21 Jan 1815
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WILL, GEORGE COOK dated 1815 as it was written.

			In the Name of God Amen
I George Cook of the county of Greene and State of Tennessee being in a
low state of body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling
into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it appointed unto
all men once to die do make and ordance this my last Will and Testament.
1st I give my soul to God who gave it and my body I recomend to the earth
to be buried in a Christain like maner and as touching such worldly estate
as it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I do dispose of in
the following manner:
Item 1 it is my will that the plantation where on I now live be rented
out (except the part where my son Henry now lives) yearly for the time
of seven years if not sooner sold and it is my will that Sarah Harget
be paid thirty bushels of corn out of the rent of the land yearly as
long as the same may continue to be rented and it is also my will that
my beloved daughter Elizabeth Cook have one hundred and twenty five bushels
of corn out of the rent of the land as long as the same is rented out (and
the reminder to be sold and the money to be paid amoung my heirs) and
my executors is hereby empowered to sell the said land as soon as they
can to advantage on continue the same on rent until it can be sold.
Item 2nd I give and bequeath to beloved son Henry Cook $300 to be paid
out of the parcel of land when sold and that to his own proper use for
ever and the remainder of the parcel of my land to be equaly divided
amoung my beloved children, George Cook, Nancy Cook, Jacob Cook, John
Cook, Christain Cook, Mary Meloy, Elizabeth Cook and Eve Hutchesons six
children so as that Eve Hutchesons children shall only have one part
amongest them and it is my will that a note which I now hold on my
beloved son Jacob Cook for $111 or there about be reducted out of his
part and it is also my will that a note which I hold on Joseph Hutcheson
for fifty six dollars be reducted and of the part allowed to his wife
Eve Hutchesons children.
Item 3: I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Mary Meloy nine
hundred and twenty three dollars - three hundred and three dollars of
which she has already received and one note which I hold on her husband
James Meloy and fifteen dollars to be paid out of my moveable estate
and that to his own proper use for ever.
Item 4: I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Margret Nees my
plantation at Pilot Hill and that to her own proper use for ever.
Item 5: I give and bequeath to Sarah Harget one share in the iron
factory during her natural live also I give to the said Sarah one
cow, one bed and furniture, one dish and six spoons and personally
to live in the house that Thomas Harget built on my land and the use
of three acres of land from the house to the Creek until the land
is sold.
Item 6:  I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Elizabeth Cook
two cows, two beds and furniture and all the remander of the Dreken
furniture and one share in the iron factory and that to her own
proper use for ever.
Item 7:  I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Mary Meloy one
share in the iron factory and that to her own proper use forever.
Item 8:  I give and bequeath to Adam Nees one share in the iron factory
and that to his own proper use forever.
Item 9: It is my will that the remainder of my estate be sold and all
my Just Debts paid out of it - and I do hereby constitute and apoint
my beloved son George Cook and John Gragg my whole executors, and I do
hereby revoke all former wills and testaments made by me and declare this
to be my last will and testament in witness where of I have here unto set
my hand and seal 21st day of January 1815.
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