Return to Tyrrell Co Wills Introduction & Table of ContentsIn the name of God amen: 1st of March 1809 I Willis Cooper of the County of Tyrell being very sick & weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried at a decent and Christian like burial at the discretion of my executors nothing doubting but at the general resurection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with I give dimise and dispose in the following manner & form.
First - I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Nichedemus Cooper the plantation and land whereon I now live and my cypress swamp joining the land whereon I now live and bequeath to my well beloved sons Joseph John & Nichedemus Cooper and the land whereon Jos. Cooper now lives to be equally divided between Josh. & John Cooper. I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Luraney Cooper one bed and furniture whereon I now lie one disk one chest six green edged plates and her mother clothes. I also give and bequeath to my well beloved son John Cooper one young horse named Prince I also further give unto Nichedemus Cooper one old horse by the name of Brit I also farther give to Joseph Cooper one work steer and my corn and pork for the use of my family and one cart for the use of the plantation I also farther give to John Cooper one rowing canoe. I give unto my well beloved daughter Zilpha Cooper one bed and furniture that she sleeps on I give and bequeath unto my daughter Nancy Bateman one cow by the name of Good Luck I give to Joseph Cooper one cow by the name of Fortune I give to Zilpha Cooper one cow & Yealing by the name of Fawney I give to John Cooper one cow by the name of Block and the calf that now sucks her. I give unto my well beloved daughter Betsey Cooper one heifer by the name of Cherry I also give to Luraney Cooper two heifer yearlings by the name of Penny & Damsel one lom one woolen wheel that was her mothers. Also I give to Zilpha Cooper one woolen wheel that was my own and linen do that she spins on also I give to Betsey Cooper one linen wheel that she spins on I give to Luraney Cooper one large pot, I also give to John Cooper one big pot I give to Nichedemus Cooper one four gallon pot I also give to Nancy Bateman one bed which I have lent her and one linen wheel I have lent her. I also give to John Cooper one stock of bees that sets on the west and of the bench & the one next to it Nichedemus Cooper and the other Betsey Cooper. I also give my farming tools for the use of the plantation I also further give to Joseph Cooper one small pot. I further give to Zilpha Cooper one cone and the mill I leave for the use of the plantation I also give to Betsey Cooper one bed and furntiure with one ewe and lamb I give to Zilpha Cooper one ram and give to Nichedemus Cooper one ewe and lamb I further give to John Cooper all the remainder of my sheep I also give Betsey Cooper one dutch oven.
I do hereby constitute and appoint my two sons Joseph Cooper and John Cooper my sole executors and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disanul all and every other person testaments wills legacies & bequeaths and executors by me in any wise before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written
Willis (his -x- mark) Cooper (Seal)
Signed Sealed Pulished and Pronounced
and Declared by me Willis Cooper as
his last will & testament inpresence of us
Rodger Snell
George Phelps
Hannah (her -x- mark) Phelps
State of North Carolina
Tyrell County
June Term 1809
This will was proved in open court by the oath of Rodger Snell and Hannah Phelps two subscribing witnesses in due form of law.
C. Spruill Clk
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