Will Book __, Page 92
February 5, 1818
Proven: Feb. Session, 1818

In the Name of God, Amen.

I, Rebecca Craft of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee, calling to mind the shortness of this mortal life and knowing that it is appointed for all persons 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 hand of Almighty God that gave it.

And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, demise and dispose of the sane in the following manner and form:

First. I give and bequeath to my brothers and sisters the sum of ten dollars to be equally divided between my brothers and sisters or their heirs, excepting my sister Sarah Light.

It is also my will that my negro girl named Anna should be freed, agreeable to the law of the state, at twenty-one years of age.And it is also my will she should have one puter dish and coffe pot, one pewter bason and six pewter plates, a set of knives and forks, six spoons and one tin cup: one feather bed and furniture and one velvet riding dress and one bed stead and one chest.

And I give to my sister Sarah Light two pewter dishes, six pewter plates, seven spoons, three small pewter basons, three tin plans, and five tea cups, one peper box and a worm of cotton cards and one coffee pot, one stone jug, one pickling pot (?), and one bed and furniture and bedstead, and two pots, one oven, and one dresser, one iron shovel and one cow, and it is also my will that Vachel Light and his three sons should have fourteen head of hogs to be equally divided between then.

I likewise constitute, make and ordain Vachel Light my sole Executor of this my last will and testament.

And I do hereby utterly revoke and disannul all and every other former will. I do ratify and confirm this to be my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal. This fifth day of February in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Rebecca [X] Craft (seal) (her mark)

Signed, sealed and published and declared by the said Rebecca Craft in presence of:

(Attest)
Reuben Barnard (Jurat)
James Morrison (Jurat)
George ______ [name illegible]

This Hawkins County Will was transcribed by one of the following volunteers:  Audrae Mathis; Gary Fletcher; Betty Mize; Diana Arney; Karen Negron, Kathey Welder.