Will Book __, Page 355 <\/p>\n
I Solomon Mitchell <\/b>of the State of Tennessee and Hawkins County, being of sound and disposing memory, do make and ordain this my land Will & Testament, revoking all other wills heretofore by me made. <\/p>\n
In the first place, I give and bequeath unto my wife Nancy Mitchell<\/b> all my Estate if she should survive me, that is, all my personal and real property or estate of every kind whatever, of every debt due or owing that I may die seized and possessed of, to have and to enjoy her lifetime.<\/p>\n
Secondly. I desire that at both our deaths that my two slaves Betty <\/b>and James<\/b> may receive their freedom, and I do hereby at (my) death and my wife Nancy Mitchell’s <\/b>death give them their freedom. <\/p>\n
That is, I desire that my Executors may get a special Act of Assembly passed if it can be done for them to receive their freedom according to the tenor of this my last Will and Testament. <\/p>\n
If they do not receive their freedom as above stated, I give and bequeath the above named slaves to John Mitchell <\/b>my son forever, that is, in the following manner. <\/p>\n
I give the service of said two slaves to him one day in each week forever, and the other five days of each week during their lifetime I give to said two slaves. <\/p>\n
During their services to him, I desire he shall not depart with said two slaves or trade his right of them away. <\/p>\n
Thirdly. At my death and my wife’s death I give and bequeath unto my eleven children, that is to say: Rebeckah, Lewis, Jesse, Greenberry, Nancy Robert, Morris, Elizabeth, Polly, Susannah, Richard <\/b>Fifty Cents each. <\/p>\n
Fourthly. I give and bequeath to my son John Mitchell <\/b>all my property which I have not before disposed of of every kind whatever that I may die seized and possessed forever. <\/p>\n
I constitute and appoint John Mitchell<\/b> my Executor. <\/p>\n
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal This 31st day of January, 1837 Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of us:<\/p>\n William Gideons 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 355 I Solomon Mitchell of the State of Tennessee and Hawkins County, being of sound and disposing memory, do make and ordain this my land Will & Testament, revoking all other wills heretofore by me made. …<\/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-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Solomon<\/b> [X<\/span>] Mitchell <\/b>(seal) (his mark) <\/p>\n
Marshall M. Webb
W. W. Walker<\/b><\/p>\n
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