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John McCune, probated 1766, Cumberland Co., Will John McCune, Sr. In the name of God Amen-the thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six I John McCune of Hopewell township in the County of Cumberlnad in the Providence of Pennsylvania, Farmer, being very sick and weak in body but in prefect mind and memory thanks be given unto God thereofre calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that is is appointed for all men once to die Do make and ordain 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 God that gave it and my for my body I recomend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the directions of my executors hereinafter named nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Might Power of God and a touching such worldly Estate wherewith it had pleased God to bless me. I give and devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. Impremis - I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved son John McCune one dollar. Item - I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved son Robert McCune one Dollar and the land he now possesseth and the one half of the Land I now possess to be by him and his heirs after one year after my death enjoyed forever- Item - I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved son James McCune that part of my plantation he is now possessed of and the one half of that third of my plantation which I now possess to be by him and his heirs after oneyear after my decease to be enjoyed forever and one dollar and one pot one fourth of the pewter and the fourth part of the hogs- Item-I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved wife Agnes McCune one brown mare called Boney with a patch in her face, her bed and bed cloaths, two cows and one pot, all the vessels about the shelf and the one half of all my grain for her maintenance. Item- I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved son William McCune Eighty pounds and a roan mare and a mare called Jewel, two cows, and all the sheep and a bed and bed cloaths and one gridle and one pot and one saddle Bridle one trunk tow cutters one shear Plow and tackling one Grubbing and Weeding hoe, one folling ax and all the table linen and half of the pewter, Mare wedges, my Bible and the one half of the grain one gun and all my wearing apparel and the three quarters of the hogs and I likewise constitute and ordain William Lamond, Sr. and Agnes McCune Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby disallow revoke and disannel all and every other forms testaments Wills Lagacies Executors by me in any wise before this time named Wills and bequeathes Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal in the fourth year a four sovereign Lord George the third and Signed Sealed Published and Pronounced by me as my last Will and Testament in the presence of Samuel Wear George Wear Source: transcribed from original |