Notes for Joseph Boon

Notes for Joseph Boon

!JOSEPH BOON'S WILL: Written: Feb.19,1728: I Joseph Boon: Being very sick and weak of body but in perfect memory: Do give and dispose of what worldly estate God hath been pleased to endow me with: I give and dispose after this manner following:
First I bequeath my soul to God who gave it. And my body to be buried After a decent manner, According as my Executors shall feel Convienient.
Item: I give unto my son James Boon one certain tract or division of land granted by patent in my son James Boon's own name:
Item: I give unto my son Joseph Boon one hundred acres of land lying upon Ochonechy Neck at Roanoak:
Item: I give unto my son Thomas Boon one hundred and eighty acres: it being part of a tract of land containing 480 acres granted by patent: Baring Date ye first Day of March 1719: Lying ye South side of Mahering River:
Item: I give unto my son Ratliff Boon my hold dwelling plantation containing 380 acres: I say unto my son Ratliff after for his mother's decease.
Item: I give unto my son James Boon my new Gun:
Item: I give unto my son Joseph Boon my old Gun:
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..................... Boon one certain Gray mare ....... to ........ each of them one.
Item: I give unto my sister Martha Bayley a hifer and calf to share free or manage:
Item: I give to my son Thomas Boon my Sword:
Item: I give unto my son James Boon one iron pot and a small one when he comes of ye age Sixteen years:
Item: I give unto my two daughters Mary and Elizabeth, for each of them one Cow and Calf:
Item: I give unto my Loving wife all ye Rest of my moveable estate within and without for her to enjoy during her life and afterwards to be disposed to among my children:
And I desire my two young horses to be sold and ye produce of them to be disposed toward ye payment of my debts:
I appoint my Loving wife Executor of this my Last Will and Testament:
The Last will and Testament of Joseph Boon Testator: To witness my hand This 19th day of Feb: 1728
Joseph Boon ( his mark (an E))
Witness our hands: signed sealed in ye presence of us
Thomas Boon (his mark ( a T and B on the same vertical line)
Nathaniel Cooper ( in the same hand as the rest of the will)