Will Book __, Page 205<\/p>\n
In the Name of God, Amen.<\/p>\n
I, Thomas Gibbons<\/b> of the County of Hawkins & State of Tennessee, being weak in body but of sound and perfect memory, blessed be Almighty God, do make and publish this my last Will & Testament in manner & form following (that is to say) —<\/p>\n
It is my will that all my personal estate which I now claim be equally divided between my children, Thomas Gibbons, Nancy Howard, Betsy Chisolm, Edmond Gibbons, William Gibbons, Sally Gillenwaters <\/b>and Epps Gibbons<\/b> and a child’s share to be equally divided between my grand children, Nancy Isham, Garrett Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Babb,<\/b> children of my daughter Molly Fitzgerald<\/b>.<\/p>\n
I further bequeath to my son Edmond Gibbons<\/b> two hundred pounds in lieu of land over and above his share.<\/p>\n
I also give and bequeath to my daughter Rebecca Bell<\/b> one dollar.<\/p>\n
I also give & bequeath to my son John Gibbons<\/b> one dollar, also my son James Gibbons<\/b> one dollar, they having already received their share of my Estate.<\/p>\n
I hereby appoint my son-in-law Wm. Hord<\/b> & my son Edmond Gibbons<\/b> Executors of this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.<\/p>\n
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, This 13th day of June, A.D. 1809.<\/p>\n
Thos<\/b> [X<\/span>] Gibbons <\/b>(seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed Published & declared by the above named Thos. Gibbons <\/b>to be his last Will & Testament, in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses to the same.<\/p>\n Jon [Jonathan] Spyker This Hawkins County Will was transcribed by one of the following volunteers:\u00a0 Audrae Mathis; Gary Fletcher; Betty Mize; Diana Arney; Karen Negron, Kathey Welder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will Book __, Page 205 In the Name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Gibbons of the County of Hawkins & State of Tennessee, being weak in body but of sound and perfect memory, blessed be Almighty God, do make and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJohn Starnes <\/b>(Jurat)
\nJoel Gillenwaters<\/b> (Jurat)<\/p>\n
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