John PIPKIN

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Dated 21 May 1745 in Chowan County, N.C. This will is recorded on page 56, Vol XXIV of North Carolina Wills, 1663-1789. The Will reads:
In the name of God Amen, May the twenty first day: 1745, I, John Pipkin of Chowan County in North Carolina being sick and weak but of sound mind and perfect memory, praise be to Almighty God for it, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say first and principally commending my soul into the hands of almighty God hoping through the meritorious death and (illegible word) of my Savior Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit everlasting life and my body committed to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named and as touching all such temporal estate as it has pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me, I give and dispose thereof as . . . First my will is that all my just debts and funeral charges be honestly paid and discharged.
IMPRIMIS - I give and bequeath to my son Phillip Pipkin my plantation where I now live to him and his heirs forever and in case he dies before he come to age to go to my son Joseph Pipkin and as far as my land marked by a line of marked trees joining to my plantation I give and bequeath to my two sons Lewis and Isaac Pipkin being part of the survey of land I now live upon southward, I give to my son Lewis Pipkin and the west part to my son Isaac Pipkin. I give to them and their heirs forever.
ITEM: I give and bequeath to my son Daniell Pipkin a peace of land upon Milly Swamp being part of the tract that his brother John Pipkin did formerly live upon, I give to him and his heirs forever and in case that either of the three, Daniell Pipkin, Lewis Pipkin, or Isaac Pipkin should dye then the said land to fall to the brother in corse.
ITEM: I give to my son Joseph Pipkin a negro boy called Jack and my riding horse and bridle and saddle.
ITEM: I give to my son Daniel Pipkin two leather chairs, two pewter dishes and three pewter plates and two cows and a calf and a young steer about two or three years old and two sheep.
ITEM: I give to my son Isaac Pipkin a negro boy called Rollin.
ITEM: I give to my son Steward Pipkin a feather bed and furniture belonging to it (looks like "and bigest ovall table") and two pewter dishes and three plates and one iron pot, two cows and calves and young of two or three years old and two sheep.
ITEM: I give to my son Jesse Pipkin a negro girl called Dorety.
ITEM: I give to my daughter Mary Pipkin a negro girl called Dina.
ITEM: I give and bequeath to my younger daughter Martha Pipkin a feather bed and furniture and least ovall table, two pewter dishes and three plates one iron pot two cows and calves and a young steer and two sheep and also
ITEM: I give to my son Phillip Pipkin a bed and furniture and young heand (?) a steer about three years old and if in case any of my children herein mentioned should die before they come to age then their part be given whatever it be negro, or household stuff or cattle to be equally divided amongst the rest herein mentioned.
ITEM: I give to my loving wife Martha Pipkin a negro woman named Hannah and her increase from the date hereof and my negro man Ned and all the remaining part of my estate goods, chattels during her natural life or widowhood and then to be equally divided amongst my children herein mentioned and LASTLY I appoint and nominate my loving wife Martha Pipkin and my son Joseph Pipkin to be my Executors of this my last will and testament utterly revoking all other will or wills that hath been made by me heretofore in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed my seal.
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of: His
Henry Goodman Sr. John (X) Pipkin
Henry Goodman, Jr. Mark
Timothy Goodman
Proved in his Majesty's Court of Chowan County, North Carolina July 18,1745 with Martha Pipkin and Joseph Pipkin issued letters of Administration.
Test Edmund Hatch Cler Cor
This will was probated in December, 1745

Inventory of John Pipkin, 1746
Chowan County NC Court Minutes 1735-1738: 1746-1748 Book II By Weynette Parks Haun
April 1746

John married Mary STEWARD about 1698 in , Surry, Virginia, USA. Mary was born about 1680 in , , Virginia, USA; died about 1720 in , Chowan, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth HOWE on 29 Oct 1661 in , Surry, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth was born about 1644 in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom; died about 1681 in , Surry, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]