Will Book __, Page 353<\/p>\n
I, Christian Messer<\/b> of Hawkins County and State of Tennessee, being in sound mind and having a desire to dispose of my worldly affairs while I possess a full strength of mind, I constitute this my last Will and Testament.<\/p>\n
After committing my body to the dust and my soul to God, I do dispose of my worldly property as follows, to wit:<\/p>\n
In the first place, I allow my just debts to be paid. I will and bequeath to my wife Sally Messer<\/b> her maintenance off the tract of land I now live on during her lifetime.<\/p>\n
I will and bequeath to my three sons Jacob, John<\/b> and Isaac Messer<\/b> the tract of land I now live on, to be equal divided among them, and I moreover allow my three sons Jacob, John<\/b> and Isaac<\/b> within twelve months after my decease to pay to each of my other children the sum of five dollars.<\/p>\n
I also allow my movable property and stock to be sold and equally divided amongst the hole of my children.<\/p>\n
And I do empower William Young<\/b>, Stanwic Hord,<\/b> and Samuel McFeeters, Jr. <\/b>my executors of this my last Will & Testament.<\/p>\n
Given under my hand and seal this 28th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.<\/p>\n
Christian<\/b> [X<\/span>] Messer<\/b> (seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n Signed and sealed in the presence of:<\/p>\n James Young 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 353 I, Christian Messer of Hawkins County and State of Tennessee, being in sound mind and having a desire to dispose of my worldly affairs while I possess a full strength of mind, I constitute this …<\/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-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","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=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJacob Derick
\nJohn Derick AB<\/b><\/p>\n
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