Submitted by Jennifer Cone

WILL OF NEEL CONE

MARTIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

Will of Neel Cone-Martin County, NC, Will Book 1, pages 113 & 114

July 13 1782

 In the name of God Amen.  The Thirthieth day of July One Thousand Seven 
Hundred and Eighty Two I Neel Cone of the State of North Carolina and 
county of Martin Planter  being of perfect mind and memory thanks be 
given to Almighty God for the same therefor Calling unto mind the 
Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is Apointed unto all men Once 
to died do make this my Last Will and Testament that is to say 
 Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the 
hands of Almighty God that Gave it and for my body I Give and Recommend 
it to the Earth to be buried in A Christian Manner at the Discretion of 
my Executors whom I Shall Appoint Nothing Doubting but I Shall Receive 
the Same Again at the General Resurection by the Mighty Power of God and 
Touching Such Worldly Estate Wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me 
with in this Life I Give and Dispose of the same in the following Manner 
and Form 

Inpremises it is my Will and I Do order that in the first place all my 
Just Debts and Several be paid and Satisfied--- 

Item I give and bequeath unto my Well beloved Son Neel Cone the Land & 
plantation he now lives on all on the Eastward Side of the Mire Branch 
to the New Division Line between my plantation Whereon I now live and his 
Beginning at A Small pine in and near the of Small Branch called 
the poplar Branch Joyning Benjamin Kenedys Line thence A West Course to 
A Small running the the Old Field Between my field----------(Word torn 
off) and his thence West to A Small Oake in the Old Field thence West to 
A small pine at the Edge of the Old Field thence A South Course to tall 
Marked pine all the Above Mentioned Trees being Marked Along A line of 
Marked trees to A bottom thence down the said bottom to the lower 
Cattail Marsh to him and his heirs forever.

Item I give my Plantation and all the Land to the Aforementioned Line 
between I and my Son Neel Cone to my two Sons Jesse Cone and Levy Cone 
(to be Divided marded through) and Likewise A Negro fellow Named 
Anderson Between my two Son Jesse Cone and Levy Cone to be divided 
between them as they Can Agree to them and their heirs forever.
Likewise I Give to my Son Levy Cone A Sorrell Mare and yearling the Mare 
Branded thus N 6 and Likewise all the cattle that is of my Proper that 
is Called Levy s to him they and their Increase to him and his Heirs 
forever.

Item I Give unto my Son William Cone the Remaining Part of my Land Lying 
on the South Side of the Miery  X  Branch the Land and Plantation he Now 
Lives on to him and his heirs forever  Likewise A Feather Bed and 
Furniture to him and his Heirs for Ever.

Item I Give unto my Daughter Sarah Joyce a cow and thirty shillings to 
be raised & paid out of the Estate to Her Heirs for Ever.

Item I Give unto my Daughter Mary Harvill (Harrill?) a cow and calf or 
thrity Shillings to (sic) Raised and paid out of my Estate to her and 
her heirs for Ever.

Item I Give to my Daughter Patience Morris a cow and calf or thirty 
Shillings to be Raised and Paid out of my Estate to her and her heirs 
for Ever 

Item I Give to my Daughter Martha Cherry A cow and calf or thirty 
Shillings to be Raised and Paid out of my Estate to her and her heirs 
for Ever 

Item I Give to my Daughter Charity Cone a Cow and Calf and all the Rest 
of all my Moveable Estate to be Equally Divided between She and my two 
Sons Jesse and Cone (sic)them and their heirs for Ever.

I likewise Make ordain and Constitute my faithful 
Executorix and Executors my loving Sons William Cone and Jesse Cone of 
this my Last Will & Testament and Do denie all Other Wills and 
Testaments before me Names Willed or bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming 
this and No other to be my Last Will & Testament the Day and year above 
Written under my hand Signed Sealed Delivered and pronounced and 
Declared by the sd Neel Cone to be his Last Will & testament 

In Presence of us                       his 
Jesse Cooper                       Neel  X  Cone   (Seal) 
       his                              mark 
William W  Brewer   
       mark
      his 
Andrew A. Anderson 
      mark 

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