{"id":3222,"date":"2013-05-11T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2022-02-15T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:47:17","slug":"hannah-abercrombie-1755-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/hannah-abercrombie-1755-will\/","title":{"rendered":"HANNAH ABERCROMBIE (1755 Will)"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT<\/span><\/p>\n

OF<\/span><\/p>\n

HANNAH ABERCROMBIE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

August 12, 1754<\/span><\/p>\n

North Carolina<\/span><\/p>\n

Pasquotank County<\/span><\/p>\n

Ye In the name of God Amen I HANNAH ABERCROMBIE<\/strong> of the County and Province aforesaid being sencible that it is appointed for all people once to die and being at this present time forward and disposing this my Do make this my Last Will and Testament, in the following manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

My Will is that all my Just Debts and funeral charges be paid ??? conveniont (?) time by my Executors, after my decease.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Daughter CATHRINE CHAMBERLIN<\/strong> my bed and furniture, that I lie on, two puter dishes, two basons and my writing desk & case of twelve bottles to her and to her disposial.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grand Daughter LUCY CHAMBERLIN<\/strong> one puter dish two plates<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grandson JEROMIAH CHAMBERLIN<\/strong> one gun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grandson DANIEL EVERTON<\/strong>, trunnel bed & bedstead and the furniture thereto belonging two Porringers, one dish.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grandson JEROMIAH EVERTON<\/strong> two cows and their increase to him and his heirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grandson WILLIAM EVERTON<\/strong> two cows & their increase to him and his heirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grand Daughter HANNAH EVERTON<\/strong> two cows & their increase to her & her heirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grandson EDWARD EVERTON<\/strong> two cows & their increase to him and his heirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grandson JAMES EVERTON<\/strong> two cows & their increase to him and his heirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grand Daughter COURTNEY CHAMBERLIN<\/strong> one Porringer and a plate to her and her heirs<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Grand Daughter ABY CHAMBERLIN<\/strong> four earthon plates & three Paringers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Item. \u00a0I give to my Daughter CATHRINE CHAMBERLIN<\/strong> my ???? and all the rest of my estate I give to my Daughter CATHRINE CHAMBERLIN<\/strong>\u00a0 to be equally divived between her and her childron(?) Except one chest I give to DANIEL<\/strong>(?) EVERTON<\/strong> and Lastly I nominate appoint my loving Daughter CATHRINE CHAMBERLIN<\/strong> to be Ext. of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all other wills hereto for by me made.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HANNAH \u201cH\u201d ABERCROMBIE \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(<\/span>Her Mark)<\/span><\/p>\n

Signed sealed published\u00a0<\/span>& declared by the said as\u00a0<\/span>her Last Will and Testament\u00a0<\/span>in the presence of us the\u00a0<\/span>Subscribers.<\/span><\/p>\n

THOS. TAYLOR<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

WM. COATE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This 12th day of<\/span><\/p>\n

August 1754<\/span><\/p>\n

HANNAH CROMBIOS<\/strong> Will<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

North Carolina<\/span><\/p>\n

Pasquotank County<\/span><\/p>\n

January Court 1755<\/span><\/p>\n

Present His Majesties Justices<\/span><\/p>\n

These may Certifie that THOMAS TAYLOR<\/strong> one of the Evidones to Court and proved\u00a0<\/span>the within Will same in due form of Law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Test. THO. TAYLOR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And CATHRINE CHAMBERLIN<\/strong> Executrix appeared before ROBERT MARDEN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Esq. and was duly qualified Executrix. The 27th day of January 1755.<\/span><\/p>\n

ROBERT MURDEN<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contributed and t<\/strong>ranscribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Transcribed as written, including errors in spelling and grammar.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HANNAH ABERCROMBIE August 12, 1754 North Carolina Pasquotank County Ye In the name of God Amen I HANNAH ABERCROMBIE of the County and Province aforesaid being sencible that it is appointed for all people once to die and being at this present time forward and disposing this my Do … Continue reading “HANNAH ABERCROMBIE (1755 Will)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18029],"tags":[30692,26757,30695,30696,30693,29513],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wills-and-estate-records","tag-abercrombie","tag-chamberlain","tag-chamberlin","tag-coate","tag-everton","tag-murden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}