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Immigration: 11 SEP 1732 Passenger on the ship Pennsylvania Merchant to the US
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Information provided by Karl Miller

WILL OF MATHIAS SHAUP

Will Book 1, 1745-1756
Augusta County, Virginia

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, THE THIRD DAY OF November Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty I Mathew Shaup being sick in body but of Good and Perfect Memory thanks be to Almighty God and calling to remembrance the uncertain Estate of this transitory life and that all flesh must Yield to Death when it shall please God to Call do make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner of form following, first I commit my body to the Earth and I commit my soul to almighty God, my Savior, my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named for the selling of my temporal Estate and such goods, Chattells and Debts as it has pleased God to bestow upon me I do order give or dispose the same in manner form following that is to say
Imprimio I give and bequeath unto my two eldest sons in law Michael Carn and George Carn the full estate of their father left them according to the Demensions of the bonds.
Item: I bequeath my personal Estate to be equally divided in three parts and one of these three parts to be equally divided among Eight children, the other two parts to be equally divided among my own six children and my plantation I bequeath to my two Eldest Sons John Shaup and Adam Shaup and thereby make and appoint my loving friends George Carpenter and Jacob Pence full and sole executors of this my last Wills and bequests by me made and declaring this only to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereunto I have set my hand.

Signed in the presence of X
Henry Dickey MATHEW SHAUP
Jacob Nicholas
George Bernhart Mann

At a Court held in Augusta County this 28th day of November 1750 the last Will and Testament of Mathew Shaup, Dec�d being presented to the Court was proved by the oath of Jacob Nicholas, one of two witnesses who has made oath that he saw Henry Dickins and George Bernhard Mann together to witness and sign the same wherefore is ordered that he be summoned to appear at the next Court further to prove the said will.

Will Book 3, page 144
Sale of personalty of Mathias Shawp
20 February 1750-51. By James Nicholas, executor. Recorded 18 May, 1762, viz.
Sold to Jno. Craig, Wm. Frazier, Jas. Downey, Jno. Love, David Nelson, Henry Dooley, William Craig, Bernard Man, Joseph Wait, Saml Muncy, Joseph Muncy, Casper Faught, Owen Reed, Joseph Wait, Jacob Harmon, Jno. Stevenson, Jacob Nichols, Peter Herman, James Beard, Cathrine Pence, Michael Carn, William Williams, 5 May 1755 � 2nd sale to viz: Jacob Nicholas, Henry Dooley, David Nelson, Peter Miller, Conrad Kimsley, Catrine Shawp, (3 books), Michael Carn, Francis Kirtley, Jno. Davison, Margaret Shawp, Jno. Davis, Charles Man, Joseph Cravens, Jno. Couch, Rob�t. Craig, Jacob Courtsious, Simon Powell, George Carn, Henry Long, Evan Evans, Conrad Backfish, Patrick Wilson, Jno. Hetrick, Nicholas Brock , George, Robert and widow. By sundries received the estate of the deceased Jacob Pence.

Note from Karl Miller:

The Michael and George listed in Mathias's will, as sons in law, makes me wonder if it was a type or if they married Sharp girls. Someone told me their father was Nicholas Carn.

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