William Cown, 1718

                    Conchan 1718

This is affirmed to be ye last Will & Testam’t of W’m
Cown, who departed this Life about ye 4th of May last, being
a perfect Mind & Memory at ye making thereof.  First, He
comitted his Soul to God & his Body to Xtian Burial.  Item
He left his part of ye Crop of Corn & Husbandry gears
to whomsoever would be Heir of his Tenem’t.  Itm, He left
his part of an Heifer to his Wife.  Itm, he left to his
Father all his shap’d cloathes.  Lastly, He
appointed & ordered [that] if ye Child then on his wife’s Bear:
:ing should dy, ye Heir or Heiress of his Tenem’t should
have as above bequeathed & ye other Child have all
his Goods moveable & immoveable whatsoever, & [that] if
ye Child on her bearing did live, ye two youngest to have
all his goods equally.

Witnesses: Jon Cannell    } to be Sworn by the Vic’r
           Robt Christian } jurati

Jo: Cannel appear’d, & is Sworn
in Court.  Probatum est & Solvit 1s

The Inventory in gross amounts to              04:11:10
         & the deads part of the Husbandry gears
  Out of which deducted, for Corbes ^ for ye Heir}
  or Heiress, ye sum of                  }    [00?]:07:00
  Procedes of Crop left to ye Heir             00:12:00

                 The goods & Children in the Super
                 vises hands & tuition, who gave as
                 pledges W’m Cown & Jo: [Qu..?] 
                               [faded at bottom corner]

[written sideways at bottom left:]
The Children being under age
Anne & Mariot Cown, the
Aunts, are sworn supervises.

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     11 May, 1719
Deducted for Debts paid=02=06=071/2


June 1. 1733. Now Cath. Cown, one of the Ex’rs 
[…?] to be pd from her Aunt Anne Cown for
her proportion of the clear Inventory = 01:00:09
& acquits her of the same.  Witness her subscription
                            Cath. Cown her m’rk X
Before me
J:Woods Reg. Ep
         Note that only 13s:1 1/4d was due to her.

Dec. 14 1736 Now Mary Cown the other Ex’rx rec.
from her Aunt Mariot Cain 13s: 1 1/4d being her pro
portion of the clear Inventory of her Father W’m
Cain.  Witness her subscription.
                       Mary Cain her m’rk X
Witness
 J.Woods Reg. Ep 

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I Katherine Cown, Daughter of W’m Cown of KK
Conchan deceased, do hereby acknowledge to be fully pay’d
& satisfied in what was due to me by ye Death of my
Father afores’d, at & from ye hands of my Aunts
Ann & Marriod Cown my guardians, & so hereby
exonerate them, their Ex’s & Assignes for ever
being troubled or molested for ye Same.  Witness
my mark to my name this 5th of June 1733.
                  Katherine Cown my m’rk X
Signed in presence
Of  Wm. Gell

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Wm. Cown:   Conchan 1718
        £4:11s:10d Inventory
Deduct  0 :  7     corbs & gears
        2: 6: 7 ½  Debts
        0:12:0     Crop
     =  3: 5: 7 ½
     :  1: 6: 2 ½
     =  4: 11: 10

            13: 1 ¼ apiece
            13: 1 ¼
        [=] 1 : 6: 2 ½

Last Modified 8 April 2015