Adam Coons son, Martin Coons/Wheat Will
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In reply to:
Rich Hill, Missouri
4/26/99
This Martin Coons (b. bef 1778, Ohio County, VA, Wheeling,WV)will migrate to Kentucky and Marry ( 5 April 1796) in Jefferson County to Polly Locke (1779-1851)her approval for marriage by Heinrich (Henry) Batdorff (Stepfather)
Record of Wills, Ohio County, West Virginia
Ohio County Courthouse, County Clerks Office
Book 1, Page 6
In the name of God Amen
This fourteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred & Eighty one I
Conrad Wheat of Virginia & County of Ohio-Gentlemen being very sick &
weak in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be to godTherefore
calling in mind the mortallity of my Body & knowing that it is appointed
for all men once to die do make this my Last will & Testament that is to
say Principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul to the hands
of God that Gave it.& for my body I recommend to the Earth to be
buried in a Christian Like & Decent Manner at the Discretion of my
Executors Conrad Wheat & Jacob Wheat nothing doubting but at the
Generall Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power
of God & as touching such worldy Effects wherewith it has Pleased God to
bless me in this Life I Give desire & dispose of the same in the
Following Manner & form-----(Imprimmis)-----It is my will & I do order
that in the first Place all my Just debts & Funerall Charges be paid &
Satisfied---
ItemI Give & bequeath unto my two Sons Conrod Wheat & Jacob Wheat my
Real Estate of Land & Cash with all the Utensils thereunto
Belonging------------I also desire my two Sons Conrod wheat & Jacob
wheat to give unto Margarett Wheat my beloved wife the third part of my
Land during her Life & after her death to return back to my two sons
Conrod & Jacob Wheat to be divided Equally between them---------------.
As for my Personall Estate I desire that it shall be Equally divided
amongst my whole Children Except the share of my Daughter Molly whom I
desire shall be Given unto her son Martin Coons & to be deposited in the
hands of Mr Ebenezer Zane untill the said Martin Coons shall Arrive of
Age to Receive it----(Margarett Hellibrand) my daughter has already
received her share therefore no division is to be made for
her--------------
Should any of my Children die before my Estate Should be Divided their
Shares I desire to fall on my two Sons Conrod & Jacob Wheat ---- ----
---- ---- and as for the rest of my Estate I do give unto my two Beloved
Sons Conrod & Jacob Wheat to be Divided Equally between them both:
Land. Horses. & Cows & Every Individual thing about the Plantation for
Ever & Ever ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- and I do hereby utterly
disallow revoke & disannul all & Every Other Former testament, wills
Legacys & Executors by me in any ways before this date Named willed &
bequeath'd.Ratifying & Confirming this & no Other to be my Last will &
Testament-
In Witness hereof I have hereunto affixed my hand & Seal this fourteenth
day of March One thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty One
Signed Sealed Published pronounced &
Declared by the said Conrad wheat asConrad
Wheat
His Last will & Testament in the
Presence of us--------------
James Lane
Alexr Frazer---
Ebenezer Zane
the above will, was Proved in Open Court & Ordered to be Recorded
TestDavid McClure
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