{"id":5746,"date":"2010-06-29T08:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T12:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2022-02-18T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:52:54","slug":"richard-feriel-1740-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/richard-feriel-1740-will\/","title":{"rendered":"RICHARD FERIEL (1740 Will)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

RICHARD FERIEL<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the Name of God Amen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I RICHARD FERIEL<\/strong> of Pascotank precinct in the County of Albermarle and\u00a0Province of North Carolina being at this time in health of body and of perfect\u00a0sence and memory praise be therefore given unto almighty God for the same\u00a0calling to mind the mortality of my body do make and ordain this my Last Will\u00a0and Testament.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Imprimis I do give and bequeath my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that\u00a0gave it hoping through the meriteries death and passion of our blessed savious\u00a0Jesus Christ to receive full pardon of all my sins and to obtain a joyful\u00a0resurrection and my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my\u00a0executor here after named and as to what worldly estate the Lord is pleased to\u00a0blessed upon me I do give in manned following.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0I will first that all my debts and funeral charges be paid and discharged.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Item. I do give and bequeath unto my Son ERASMUS FERIEL<\/strong> fifty acres of land\u00a0be ye land ???? or ????lying or being at ye roofs(?) end of my plantation\u00a0beginning at a marked gum near my corn field by ye main swamp runing from\u00a0thence about northeast course to a gum & from thence to ye farthest side of my\u00a0land to him and his heirs forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Item. I do give & bequeath unto my Son JOHN FEREL<\/strong> all the remainder of my\u00a0land and plantation to him & his heirs forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Item. And all my porsonal estat I do give to be equaly devided amongst all\u00a0my children and my Son JOHN FEREL<\/strong> to have ye first choice therein, and I do\u00a0make and ordain my sd. Son JOHN FERIEL<\/strong> whole and sole executor of this my Last\u00a0Will & Testament in confirmation whereof I have hereunto set my hand & fixed\u00a0my seal this One and Thirty Day of Janeuey Anno Dom 1738<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Signed<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0RICHARD FERIEL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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JOHN HOUREN \u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 jurat<\/span><\/p>\n

THOMAS JAMES<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0His x mark<\/span><\/p>\n

WILLIS JAMES<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 jurat<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0His x mark<\/span><\/p>\n

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

July Court<\/span><\/p>\n

Present His Majesty Justices\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These may Certifie that JOHN HOUREN<\/strong> and WILLIS JAMES<\/strong> appeared in open Court\u00a0and made oath that they saw RICHARD FERIL<\/strong> sign seal & publish the within as\u00a0his Last Will and Testament and that he was of sound and disposing mind &\u00a0memory at that time. And they ???? Subscribed as Witnesses thereto\u00a0At the same time JOHN FERRILL<\/strong> took the oath appoi (torn) by law to be taken by<\/span><\/p>\n

Executor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Test. JAMES CARVER<\/span><\/p>\n

Letters issued Ober 30th 1740 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n (Transcribed as written, including errors in spelling and grammar<\/em>.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF RICHARD FERIEL In the Name of God Amen.\u00a0 I RICHARD FERIEL of Pascotank precinct in the County of Albermarle and\u00a0Province of North Carolina being at this time in health of body and of perfect\u00a0sence and memory praise be therefore given unto almighty God for the same\u00a0calling to mind the … Continue reading “RICHARD FERIEL (1740 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":[31374,6924,31377,31375,6150],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wills-and-estate-records","tag-feriel","tag-ferrell","tag-ferrill","tag-houren","tag-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","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=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7280,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions\/7280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pasquotank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}