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| Thomas Coor | see FAMILY TREE | |
| Born: Abt 1699 | ||
| Died: 1752 Northampton Co., NC | TRANSCRIPTION OF WILL OF THOMAS CORE I (written 1751,
probated 1752, Northampton County, Colony of NC IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN the twenty sixth Day of October 1751 I Thomas Core of Northampton County being very Sick and weake in body but of parfect mind and memory Thanks be to God. Therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once [to] Dye, Do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to Say -- Principally and first of all I give and Recommend my Soule into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian burial at the Discretion of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the Generall resurrection I shall receive the Same again by the mighty power of God and as Touching shuch worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give Devise and Dispose of the Same in the following maner and form - ------------------------------------------- Item.I give and bequeath unto my beloved Son Thomas Core all my waring apparrell and twenty shillings cash------------------------- Item.I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Margett Coopper one Cow and Calf ----------------------------------------------------------- Item.I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Mary Holland the plantation whereon she now lives containing one hundred acres more or less acording to the bounds that [George?] Ward gave Edward [Harbirtt? Herbert?] a Deed for I Say to She and her hires [heirs] of her body Lawfully begotten Forever. Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Elizabeth Core one Cow and Calf ---------------------------------------------------------------- Item.I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Grace Core one Cow and Calf ------------------------------------------------------------------ Item.I leave to my well beloved wife margitt Core the yuse of all my lands and negroes and personal Estate During her Natural Life or widowhood making no waste of the Said Estate and after her death or marriage the whold Esate of land and negroes and personal Estate before mentioned I give to my beloved Son Arthur Core and the Hires [heirs] of his body lawfully begotten forever -------------- I constitute make and ordain my beloved wife Margitt Core and my Son Arthur Core to be my Executors of this my Last will and Testament and I doe hereby utterly disallow renounce and disown all and every other former wills ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament . In Witness Whereof I have heareunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and year above written _________ Signed Sealed In the presents of James Boyte Jurat Thomas Core John Right [Night?] (his mark) Wm Murfree Jurat Northampton County /May Court 1752 The within written Will of Thomas Core was proved in open Court by the Oath of James Boyte and Wm Murfree two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and at the same time Margaret Core and Arthur Core were qualified as Executors thereof. Which was ordered to be certified. Test I. Edwards, Clerk of Court Thomas Core's will -- Letters Issued 8th of June, 1752. |
FATHER
MOTHER
Grace
WIFE
Margaret (Margitt)
CHILDREN
1. Arthur Coor
2. Thomas Coor
4. Mary Coor
6. Grace Coor
Cavaliers and Pioneers Abstracts of virginia Land Patents and Grants Edited by Dennis Ray Hudgins volume five 1741- 1749 Virginia Genealogical Society, 1994
pg 26 Patent Book #20
Thomas Core 290 acs. Nansemond Co. on the N side
Summerton Cr., down the Short Sw. & up the Miery br.; adj. Henry Copeland &
Abraham Riddick; 30 Jul 1742, p. 399 one pound 10 shillings.
pg 303
Patent book # 28
Thomas Core, Junr., 285 acs. Nansemond Co. in Wyanoak Neck
on the N side of Summerton Cr., Beg. near the head of the Miery Br., down the
Deep Br., up the Short Sw.; adj. Thomas Core Senr. & William Baker; 12 Jan
1746/47, p. 13 one pound 10 shillings
The Vestry book of
the Upper Parish Nansemond County, Virginia 1743-1793 Published by the Library
board of Virginia Wilmer L. Hall, 1949 pg 31 1747
In Obediance to
an Order of Vestry August the 31; 1747 We have procession the Lines of Lands
between Cap William Baker and the Centry Line and also between the said Bakers
and Thomas Core Senr and the lines between Thomas Core Senr and Junr also
between Abraham Riddick and Thomas Core Senr and Between Thomas Lawrence and
Abraham Riddick and John Butler and between John Lawrence and Henry Lawrence and
between George Lawrence and Henry Lawrence and the Lines between Mich Lawrence
and Mr David Mead and between Mr Mead and John Pender and between Mich & Thos
Lawrence and Thomas Shiffers and the Lines between Thomas Shiffers and Abraham
Riddick. Given under our hands This 4 Day of March 1747(/48) Henry Daughtry and
Thomas Shiffers
| In 1750, Thomas Coor, of
Nansemond County, Virginia bought 290 acres of land in Northampton
County, NC. He wrote his will on Oct 6, 1751. The will was
probated in the May Court, of 1752. Apparently this land was distributed to his two children, Arthur Coor and Mary Coor Holland. Arthur Coor sold 192 acres Oct 15, 1760, in Northampton Cty left to him by his father, Thomas Coor. John Holland (husband of Mary Core, daughter of Thomas Coor) sold on Nov 8, 1753 100 acres left to his wife Mary by Thomas Core. |
.jpg) North Carolina State Archives Northampton county Reel C070 40001, BK 1 pg 476. Thomas Coor of Nansemond VA buying Land of 292 acres on Feb 8, 1750 "This indenture made the 8th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty between George Ward of Northampton County in the province of North Carolina, planter of the first and Thomas Core of Nansemond county Virginia-----the plantation tract or parcel of land where the said George Ward now lives Situate in the Northampton county containing two hundred and ninety acres." |
Daughters Elizabeth and Grace each married a man named Pender. They may have been widowed at an early age. Elizabeth had three children, Harfrey, Jonathan and Sally and Grace appears to have had only one, John C. Pender. Their children must have looked up at their Uncle Thomas Coor as a father. Thomas Coor Jr mentioned his sisters, Elizabeth Pender and Grace Pender in his will and Elizabeth's son, John C. Pender was his executor. Fleet Coor, a son of Thomas Coor Jr., died without wife or children and left his estate to his brothers and sisters, with provisions for his cousins who he calls "friends", John C. Pender, Harfrey C. Pender and Johnathan C Pender.
John C. Pender, who was being raised by his mother and uncle Thomas Coor, started using his middle name thus becoming John Coor Pender and at times this was shortened to John Coorpender as in the 1790 census. So, even though his last name was Pender, the two sons of John C. Pender, Lewis and John C., went by the last name of Coorpender.
Elizabeth, when she wrote her will in 1808 used the name Elizabeth Coorpender. And Grace, when she wrote her will in 1803 used the name Grace Coor Pender.
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