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The Last Will and Testament of Stephen Hinshaw


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
Item 6th I give and bequeath to my daughter Hannah Bean fifty dollars
Item 7th I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Stout fifty dollars
Item 8th I give and bequeath to my daughter Melicent Barker fifty dollars
all the balance of my estate both real and personal I will that it be sold and the proceeds thereof be equally divided amongst all my Children share and share alike that is to say Asenath Cox Abigail Cox Jane Cox Thomas Hinshaw Jacob Hinshaw Ruth Barker Amos Hinshaw Hannah Bean Elisabeth Stout and Melicent Barker
I do ordain and appoint David Cox and Neri Cox executors to this my last will and testament declaring all former wills to be void in witness whereof I have set my hand this 20thth day of 5th 1876

my hand and Seal   Stephen Hinshaw

William Stout
E Milton Cox

State of North Carolina In the Probate Court
Randolph County
We Neri Cox and David Cox do solemnly [lined-out: "swear (or"] affirm) that
[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
day of March 1877

David Cox
Neri Cox
A 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
Before A M Diffee Judge of Probate

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.
Affirmed to and subscribed before me this 12th day of March 1877.
David Cox
Neri Cox

A M Diffee Probate Judge

 

State of North Carolina
Randolph County     In the Probate Court

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

William Stout     {seal}
E Milton Cox     {seal}
Severally affirmed and subscribed this 12th day of March 1877 before me
A M Diffee Probate Judge


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