Submitted by: | Joyce M Oates |
Date: | 1 September 2005 |
Original: | LDS: 0106207 |
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Bride Febr ye 26th 1699 This is affirmed to be ye last will & testemt of Joney Christian alias Cotter, who departed this life ye 23 Janry last. First she commited her soule to God, & her body to Christian burial. Itt, She left to ye poor halfe a Firlet of meale. Itt, to her eldest sone Saml Christian, her whole right xx xxx to ye teame of oxen husbandry, steavs[?], & a quarter of ye crope of corn vixx: ye one moetie of her parte thereof. Itt: to her sone John her parte of ye peckell heffer, to her sone Pattrick a sheep & lamb, to her daughters Margreat& Keatrin, each of them 6d legacy. Itt: to her daughter Christian all her right in ye linins happed & unshaped, ass alsoe ye best red pettycoate; to her sister Keatrin Cotter a brown pettycoate, to her mother in law a choyce waistcoat, to her daughter Margreats 2 children a yeard of linin; to her daughter Keatrine’s childe a sheep, to Margtt Quarke & Aylice Skinch[?] her common weaving aparrell, to ye witness Pattrick Cowle & John Camacie each of them 6d. Itt, she constituted & ordanied her loveing husband Samuell Christian her true & lawfull [executor] of all ye rest of her goods moveable & unmoveable. Wittness heroff: Patrick Cowle, Jo: Camacie, jurati. The Execr sworne in Court in form of Law. Probatum est et Solvit 1s. Pledges to secure the office & pay all debts of legacies according to Law the witnesses of the will. 29th Aprill 1700 Patricke Kneal for and in the behalf of his son William Kneale & daughter in law Kath: Kneal als Xtian enter a claime against the Execr of Jony Xtian als Cotter, for the summe £8 : 0 : 0 being part of the porcion promised in Contract and due as will be made to appear, & craves the law
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