Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Wills.....Cooke, William, 1698 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Mark Valsame Will of William Cooke Isle of Wight County, Virginia Wills, Deeds, Etc., Book 2, 1661-1719, pp. 407-408. Devised May 17, 1698, Probated August 9, 1698. In the Name of God Amen. I Wm Cooke, Senr. being sick & weak in body but in pfect sense & memory doe make my Last Will & Testamt. Impss, I bequeath my soul to God & my body to ye earth, & all my Personall Estate in manner & form following. Item, I give & bequeath to my son Jno 1 steel trap, & ye plantation yt he formerly lived upon & ye bounds hee formerly held, To him & his Heirs. Item, I give & bequeath unto my son William ye Plantation yt Hee formerly lived on & ye bounds hee formerly held To him & his Heirs. Item, I give & bequeath unto son Rueben ye Plantation yt he lives on Containing 125 acres of Land to him & his heirs. Item, I give & bequeath unto my son Thomas ye Plantation I now live on, after my wifes decease, to him & his heirs, & 1 feather bed, & furniture, to possessye bed wn he comes to ye years of one & twenty, & my old gun, & one Horse of 3 yeares old, & six pewtr dishes, 1 long Table & form, 1 Couch, & 1 Carved Chest, & 1 small Chest, 4 Chaires, & 1 cow & all [calf?]. And all ye Rest of my Estate aftr my debts are paid to my loving wife & to her disposing of. And doth appoint my Loving wife my whole Exr of this my Last Will & Testament. Witness my hand & seal this 17th day of May 1698. William Cooke Signed & sealed in ye presens of us Peter Vasser Peter (P) Hayes James (I) Atkesson Proved in open Cort held for ye Isle of Wight County ye 9th day of Augt __ 1698 by ye Oathes of Peter Hayes & Peter Vasser. Cha Chapman Cl Cur Notes: His widow Jone (Joan) ROPER COOKE 2m. ___ GARRELL. Her 1720 will is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/wills/g640j1wl.txt Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Mark Valsame . Reformatted by File Manager- line breaks do not match original document. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/wills/c200w1wl.txt File size: 2.5 Kb