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PHELPS, GODFREY
Secretary of State
Colony of North Carolina
County of Tyrrill
Dated 27 February 1750
In ye name of God Amen. Know ye that I Godfrey
Phelps being very weak in body but of perfect memory and understanding blessed
be God for itt and calling to mind ye mortality of my body and knowing that it
is apoynted for all men once to dye
Imprimis - First I recommend my Soul to God that gave itt me as my faithfull
Creator hopeing att ye General Ressurection through ye merits of my blessed and
mercifull redeemer Jesus Christ I shall receive a full pardon of my sins and I
freely forgive all persons from my heart that have been injurious to me and as
to my worldly Estate that itt has pleased God to endow me with I give and
bequeath in ye manner and form following
I desiring nothing but a decent Christian burial att ye discretion of my
Executors
Imprimis - First I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Phelps my beloved
wife one bed and furniture and all my household goods excepting all my tools and
I give her all my hogs sheep and bees and my riding horse and all ye cattle
excepting them that are marked for my children those are left her to raise and
suport all my children
Item - I give Cudberd Phelps my son one hundred acres of land
beginning on ye pocceson on ye westward end of ye ___ Iland _____ along a line
of marked trees between ye two plantations so to west Iland and I give him one
cow and yearling and their increase of male and female.
Item - I give to my son Godfrey Phelps seventy five acres of land upon
ye Second Creek commonly known by ye first ___ of ye ___ Prake land and I give
him one _____ and one cow and yearling heifer with their increase of male and
female
Item - I give to my son John Phelps one hundred of land with my manner
plantation joyning upon Cudberd and I give hime my hand mill and a young
cow and yearling with their increase of male and female
Item - I give to my two daughters Sarah and Elizabeth Phelps
each of them one bed and furniture and each of them a chest and one young cow to
Sarah and I give my mare to my three sons and her increase to be equally
divided and further I do constitute and apoynt my wife Elisabeth Phelps
and Joshua Phelps my Sole Executors of this my Last will and Testament
and disanulling and revoking all will or wills by me made butt doe acknowledge
this to be my last will and testament as witness werreof I have sett my hand and
seal this twenty seventh day of February in ye year of our Lord 1750.
Godfrey Phelps
Signed and Sealed and delivered
in ye presence of us as my last
Will
and Testament
John Pagott
Joshua Phelps
Joseph Spruill Junr.
North Carolina
Tyrrel County
September County Court 1751
Present his Majestys Justices
These may Certifie that Joseph Spruill Junr and Joshua
Phelps two of the subscribing evidences to the within personally
apppeared in open court and made oath on the Holy Evangist of almighty God that
they were present and saw Godfry Phelps sign seal publish and declare the
within to be and contain his Last Will and Testament and that he the said
Godfry Spruill (Phelps?) was then and at at that time of sound and
dispossing memory; Then also appeared Elizabeth Phelps Executrix and
Joshua Phelps Executor to the said will and were duly qualified by taking
the executors oath in due form of law, ordred that the Honorable Nathaniel Rice
Esqr. Secretary of said Province have notice that Letters Testamentory issue
thereon as the law directs
Test. Evan Jones Clk
Letters issued 24th April 1752.
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