Last will and testament of
Stephen Hinshaw;
North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Manuscripts;
Original Wills, Randolph County; microfilm #1578527 in the LDS FHL.
I Stephen Hinshaw of the County of Randolph and State of North Carolina
do make this my last
will and testament in manner and form as follows, viz that my Executors
herein after mentioned
pay my funeral expences together with all my just debts out of
the money that may first come into their hands
Item 1st I give to my wife Hannah Hinshaw all the proffits of my old plantation during her lifetime my bay mare carriage and harness all my stock of cattle and sheep all the meat lard tallow and soap fifteen gallons of syrup thirty pounds of Coffe and thirty of sugar plenty of pepper spice ginger and soda for one year all my bee hives and honey what salt may be on hand wheat corn oats hay and fodder plenty for one year all the dried fruit on hand all her wheels reel and cards all the leather on hand all the flax tow wool cotten and linnen on hand all the Household and kitchen furniture all my Books also three hundred Dollars in money on hand Item 2nd I give and bequeath to my daughter Asenath Cox fifty dollars Item 3rd I give and bequeath to my daughter Abigail Cox fifty Dollars Item 4th I give and bequeath to my daughter Jane Cox fifty dollars by deducting deducting the principle of the notes I bought of Nicholas Cox that may be on hand and cant be collected out of that sum
Item 5th I give and bequeath to my daughter
Ruth Barker
fifty dollars
my hand and Seal Stephen Hinshaw
William Stout
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[lined-out: "I"] We believe this writing to be and contain the last Will and Testament of Stephen Hinshaw deceased ; and that We will well and truly execute the same by first paying his debts and then his legacies, as far as the said estate shall extend, or the law will charge me ; and that We will well and faithfully execute the office of an executor, agreeable to the trust and confidence reposed in us, and according to law, [lined-out: "so help me God"] This my solemn affirmation
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 12 David CoxA M Diffee Probate Judge |
Stephen Hinshaw
- Application for Letters Testamentary and Probate record
North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Manuscripts;
Randolph County Will Book 15; microfilm #475249 in the LDS FHL.
Randolph County In the Probate Court
In the matter of the Will of Stephen Hinshaw
David Cox & Neri Cox, being affirmed doth say: That Stephen Hinshaw late of said County is dead, having first made and published his last Will and Testament; and that David Cox & Neri Cox are the executors named therein.
Further that the property of the said Stephen Hinshaw, consisting of Real and
personal property is worth about $170000
so far as can be ascertained at the date of this application;
and that
Asenath Cox,
Abigail Cox,
Jane Cox,
Thomas Hinshaw,
Jacob Hinshaw,
Ruth Barker,
Amas Hinshaw,
Hannah Bean,
Elizabeth Stout,
Millicent Barker
and
Hannah Hinshaw
are the parties entitled under said will to the said property.
A M Diffee Probate Judge
State of North Carolina
A paper purperting to be the last Will and Testament of Stephen Hinshaw
deceased is exhibited before me, the undersigned Judge of Probate for
said County, by David Cox & Neri Cox the executors therein named, and
the due execution thereof by the said Stephen Hinshaw, by the affirmation
and examination of William Stout and E Milton Cox the subscribing witness
thereto who being duly affirmed doth depose and say and each for himself
deposeth and saith that he is a subscribing witness to the proper writing now
shown him purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Stephen Hinshaw
that the said Stephen Hinshaw in the presence of this deponent subscribed
his name at the end of said proper writing now shown him as
[scratched-out] to aforesaid and which bears date of the
20th day of 5th Mo. 1876.
And the deponent further saith that the said Stephen Hinshaw the
testator aforesaid did at the time of subscribing his name as aforesaid
declare the said proper writing as subscribed by him and exhibited to be
his last Will and Testament, and this deponent did thereupon subscribe his
name at the end of said Will as an attesting witness thereto and at the
request and in the presence of the said testator. And this deponent
further saith that at the said time when the said testator subscribed his
name to the said last Will as aforesaid, and at the time of the deponents
subscribing his name as an attesting witness thereto, as aforesaid, the
said Stephen Hinshaw was of sound mind and memory, was of full age to
execute a Will, and was not under any restraint to the knowledge, information
or belief of this deponent; And further these deponents say not
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