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John MCCUNE

Male Abt 1705 - 1766  (~ 61 years)


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  • Name John MCCUNE 
    Born Abt 1705 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1766 
    Will 23 Jun 1766  Cumberland Co., PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    In the name of God Amen?the thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six I John McCune of Hopewell Township in the County of Cumberland in the Province of Pennsylvania Farmer being very sick and weak in body but in perfect mind and memory Thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto 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 for my body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the direction of my executors hereafter named nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God and a touching such worldly estate wherewith it had pleased God to bless me I give and devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form Impremis?I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved son John McCune one dollar Item I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved son Robert McCune one Dollar and the land that he now possesseth and one half of that third of Land I now possess to be by him and his heirs after one year after my decease enjoyed forever?Item I give and bequeath unto my Dearly beloved son James McCune that part of my plantation he is now possessed of and the one half of that third of my plantation which I now Possess to be by him and his heirs after one year after my decease Enjoyed forever and one dollar and one pot one fourth of the Pewter and the fourth part of the hogs?Item I give and bequeath unto my Dearly and well beloved wife Agnes McCune one Brown mare called Boney with a Patch in her face her bed and bed cloaths two cows and one pot all the Vessels about the shelf and the one half of all my grain for her maintenance Item I give and bequeath unto my Dearly beloved son William McCune Eighty Pounds and a roam mare and a mare called Jewel two cows and all the sheep and a bed and bed cloaths and one gridle and one pot and one saddle Bridle one trunk two cutters one shear Plow and tackling one Grubbing and Weeding hoe one folling ax and all the table linen and the half of the Pewter Maue wedges my Bible and the one half of the grain one Gun and all my wearing aparel and the three Quarters of the Hogs and I likewise constitute and ordain William Lamond Sr. and Agnes McCune Executor of this my last Will and Testament and hereby disallow revoke and disannel all and every other forms testaments Wills Legacies Executors by me in any wise before this time named Wills and bequeathes 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 in the fourth year off our Sovereign Lord George the third and Signed Sealed Published and Pronounced by me as my Last Will and Testament in the Presence of
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    Letters and Testimony Issued this 23 day of June 1766 unto William Lamond Sr and Agnes McCune Executors named in the Last Will and Testament of John McCune Dec?d of which the written record is a true copy Inventory to be Exhibited the 23 day of July next and an account of Administration rendered thereunto to Legally required.
    John Armstrong  
    Person ID I547337107  Primary
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2016 

    Children 
    +1. John MCCUNE,   b. 1729,   d. 1793  (Age 64 years)
    +2. Robert MCCUNE,   b. Abt 1732,   d. 1778  (Age ~ 46 years)
    +3. James MCCUNE,   b. Abt 1740,   d. 1777  (Age ~ 37 years)
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 
    Family ID F518391152  Group Sheet

    Family 2 Agnes,   b. Abt 1710,   d. Aft 1766  (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Children 
    +1. William MCCUNE
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 
    Family ID F518391153  Group Sheet