Last Will and Testament of Richard Pace of Bertie Precinct, NC. Abstracted 3/2000 from photocopy of original by Fred and Sheila Lotterhos
In The Name of God Amen; The Thirteenth day of March 1736. I Richard Pace of Bertie Prect. in the Province of North Carolina being of sound & perfect mind & memory Thanks be given to God, Do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament. Principally & first of all I recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it, hoping through the merits death & passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have free pardon & forgiveness of all my sins, and my body I commit to the earth to be decently interred and as touching my Worldly Estate I dispose of the same in the following manner & form; That is to Say
First I will that all those Debts & duties as I do owe in right or conscience to any person or persons shall be truly confirmed (?) & paid by my Executors however named.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my Son William Pace that Plantation with one hundred and ninety acres of Land thereto belonging, where he now lives, to him & his heirs for ever.
Item.I give and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Pace & his heirs for ever the Plantation where I now live with three hundred twenty acres of land thereto belonging, reserving unto my Dearly beloved wife Rebecah Pace the sole use & benefit thereof during her natural life.
Item. I give unto my Son Richard Pace five shillings silver money.
Item. I give unto my Daughters, Ann (?), Rebecah Bradford, Amy Green, Francis Green, Tabitha Moore, Mary Johnson, Sarah House, each of them, five shillings silver money.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my Son Thomas Pace my Plantation on Roanoak river with Two hundred & ninety acres of Land thereto belonging. also ten head of cattle, one feather bed & furniture, four pewter dishes, five pewter plates, two pewter basons, two iron pots, one skilet, one frying pan, to him & his heirs for ever.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my Loving wife Rebecah Pace all the remainder of my Estate of whatsover kind to be by her quietly possessed during Life, and after her decease to be equally Divided between my Sons William Pace and Thomas Pace for the use & advantage of them & their heirs for ever;
Item. I do hereby Nominate & appoint my Loving Sons, William Pace & Thomas Pace my only Executors of my Will Ratifying & Confirming this to be my Last Will & Testament. For Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and afixed my seal the day & year above written.
| Signed, sealed, published, pronounced & declared by the said Richard Pace to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers; |
Richard_Pace (Seal) |
J. Edwards William Boone Benjamin Dukes jurats
Bertie Precinct February Court 1738
The aforementioned will of Richard Pace was duly proved in open court by the oaths of John Edwards Esq. William Boone and Benjamin Dukes Only subscribing witnesses thereof and William Pace and Thomas Pace Executors therein named took the Executors Oath by law required.
TEST (undecipherable name)
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