{"id":238,"date":"2009-08-27T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2009-08-27T19:30:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T01:30:57","slug":"will-of-john-harper-1762","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wills\/will-of-john-harper-1762","title":{"rendered":"Will of John Harper-1762"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transcribed by Betty Bivins<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In the name of God Amen The twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord\u00a01762 I John Harper of the province of North Carolina in the County of\u00a0Carteret, Planter, being sick in body but of good and perfect memory. Thanks\u00a0be to Almighty God, and calling to mind & remembrance the uncertain estate\u00a0of the Transitory life, and that all flesh must yield unto death when it\u00a0shall please God to call; do make and declare this my last will & Testament\u00a0in manner and form following; first being peniteint and sorry for all my\u00a0sins; most humbly desiring forgiveness for the same; I commend my soul unto\u00a0almighty God my Savior and Redeemer; in whom & by whose merits I trust &\u00a0believe assuredly to be saved & to have full remission & forgiveness of all\u00a0my sins & to Inherit the Kingdom of heaven and my Body I commit to the earth\u00a0to be Desently Buried at the discretion of my Execr’s hereafter named; and\u00a0for the settling of my Temporal estate & such Goods & chattels as it hath\u00a0pleased God to bestow upon me; I do order Give & dispose of the same in\u00a0manner & form following: Improvements (?) I lend to my beloved wife during\u00a0her widowhood the use of my plantation.<\/p>\n

Item: I give and bequeath to my son John Harper & his heirs my plantation\u00a0with the land to the same belongings and one bed & furniture on Trading (?)\u00a0gun one Brindle colored cow & yearling and all my carpenters, joiners,\u00a0coopers & shoe making tools.<\/p>\n

Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter, Sarah Harper & her heirs Three\u00a0hundred acres of land in Craven County on the w’t side of Trent River and\u00a0one black cow called Blackberry & one small Duftile (Drestile?) Chest.<\/p>\n

Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter, Lydia Harper and her heirs a tract\u00a0land joining Webster’s Land on the river and one red heifer called Good\u00a0Luck.<\/p>\n

Item: I give & bequeath to my daughter, Elizabeth Smith, two, two year old\u00a0stears and also one Red yearling heifer to my grand son Elijah Smith.<\/p>\n

Item: I give & bequeath to my grandson Benjamin Webster one shilling\u00a0sterling.<\/p>\n

Item: I leave to my well beloved wife, Mary Harper during her Widowhood all\u00a0the remainder of my Estate that is not above mentioned, and at my wife’s\u00a0decease to be equally divided between my son John & daughters Sarah & Lydia\u00a0By estimation of my executors and I hereby make and appoint<\/p>\n

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my true friend John Backhouse & loving wife & John Knott in Craven County &\u00a0my son in law Thomas Smith of Onslow County Executors of this my Last will\u00a0and Testament. Disannulling & making void all former wills and Bequests by\u00a0me made, and Declaring this only to be my last will & Testament. In witness\u00a0whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year above written.<\/p>\n

John Harper (seal)<\/p>\n

Sign’d, Seald’ published<\/p>\n

pronounced & Declared\u00a0By the said John Harper to be\u00a0his last will & Testament<\/p>\n

In the presence of<\/p>\n

James Barry Junr’<\/p>\n

Stephen Dudley<\/p>\n

Abraham Dudley<\/p>\n

FHL # 18410, Book D, pp 215-16, Carteret Co NC Wills 1745-1961<\/p>\n

This will was transcribed from a photocopy of microfilm housed in the LDS\u00a0Library in Salt Lake City, Utah by Betty Bivins. I have typed it as the\u00a0words appear to me, and have put (?) after words of which I am unsure. This\u00a0photocopy was sent to me by Kathleen Wilde, 1626 N 1550 E, and Provo, UT\u00a084604-5735. I met her through an Internet query in October 2006.<\/p>\n

FHL# 18379, Wills, Inventories, Sales & Settlements of Estates Vol. 6<\/p>\n

1741-1887, Carteret Co Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions.<\/p>\n

His original will is in the film as numbered below, but it has many black\u00a0spots on the copy. FHL # 18379\u00a0Wills, Inventories, Sales & Settlements of Estates Vol. 6 1741-1887. \u00a0Carteret Co Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions.\u00a0These witnesses are in the Jones Co. NC history book. I have never tried to\u00a0accurately define the county lines and their changes from these early times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transcribed by Betty Bivins In the name of God Amen The twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord\u00a01762 I John Harper of the province of North Carolina in the County of\u00a0Carteret, Planter, being sick in body but of good and perfect memory. Thanks\u00a0be to Almighty God, and calling to mind & … Continue reading “Will of John Harper-1762”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":188,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}