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Posted on: COBLE Wills
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Surname: COBLE, CLAPP
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Microfilm #0502409 Guilford County, NC Wills Clerk of the Superior Court
Record of
Wills, Book A, 1799-1801 pp. 1-430 transcribed by Rowan Fairgrove 5/15/2000
my comments in [brackets]
Will of Ludwick Coble
In the name of God amen - I Ludwick Coble, planter of the county of the
county of [repeat - sic] Guilford, and State of North Carolina being by
the blessing of God of sound mind and memory do hereby make, ordain and
publish this my last will and testament in manner following:
1st I do appoitn and ordain my well beloved wife Eve Coble and my son John
Coble to be the faithful executors of this my last will and testament.
2d I desire and order all my lawfull debts to be firstly and fairly discharged
after my decease.
3d I do order and appoint my well beloved wife Eve Coble to live and have
full power of all my possessions with a right to use the same as she shall
think fit with all my other property not herafter othrwise named in this
provision viz: that this is only to be induring [?] her widowhood.
4th I leave and bequeath all the land that I am possessed of to my two
sons namely John and Ely equally between them as she may agree among themselves
[sic] (after the death of their mother who must inherit it while a widow)
however if either of them marries or takes to away of living of their own
I order and desire that John May remain on the improvement with his mother.
5th I order and desire that my daughters, Sarah, Anna, Sophia, May each
of them have a right to demand and get a good horse or mare as the [sic]
come of age and likewise the [sic] must have of household furniture and
the same or like value as my daughter Mary Clap has got.
6th I will and desire that after distribution of the land and property
as before specified that all my children sons and daughters may have an
equal part or portion of all stock goods or chattles money or property
whatever that may be left. And to prevent any dispute or cause of disputes
after my decease I do here declare and make known that my son David Coble
and my daughter Mary Clap has each of them got and had what I think a just
and equitable part according to what I have named to the rest of my heirs
and that they David and Mary are also meaned [sic] and to share in the
equal division above named.
To sertify [sic] that this is my last will and testament I do in the presence
of witnesses George Cobble and William Corsbie subscribe my name and affix
my seal this 17th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and nine.
Witness Present
George Jobel (jurat) Ludwick Joble (seal)
W. Corsbie
State of North Carolina, Guilford County, August [illegible] 1809.
The last Will of Ludwick Coble, dec'd, was proven in Open Court by the
oath of George Coble on of the subscribing witnesses hereto, and on motion
ordered to be recorded,
Test: John Hamilton, AC