Will Book __, Page 254
\nProven: May Term, 1843<\/p>\n
In the Name of God Amen.<\/p>\n
I Samuel Henderson <\/b>of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee, being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory do make and publish this my last Will & Testament in manner and form following that is to say.<\/p>\n
First, I give and bequeath unto my wife the tract of land I reside on during her natural life; after her death it is to go to my sons Pleasant<\/b> and Samuel Henderson:<\/b> one bay mare, one black and one brown mare.<\/p>\n
I bequeath to my wife also my entire stock of hogs.<\/p>\n
It is my will that my tract of land in the Western District be sold on a twelve-month credit and all the proceeds of sale except $300.00 be divided between my three daughters Betsy, Lucinda<\/b> and Amanda<\/b>, and the $300.00 named above to go to my three grand children, i.e. Thomas George<\/b> and William<\/b>.<\/p>\n
My land on the south side of the river, about 40 acres to be sold on twelve-month credit and my other four grand children, Milly, Balldy, Samuel <\/b>& John <\/b>to have $100.00 each, and the remainder to go to my three daughters named, equally divided my wife to have two of the plows, two axes, four hoes, three milk cows & yoke of oxen.<\/p>\n
The rest of my farming tools and waggon and cattle is to be sold, also my bay colt and sorrel horse and proceeds divided equally between my sons Pleasant<\/b> and Samuel L. Henderson<\/b>.<\/p>\n
My daughter Lucinda<\/b> is to have a sorrel horse named Jim.<\/p>\n
My entire stock of sheep to go to my wife during her lifetime, then to be equally divided between all my children.<\/p>\n
My four negroes, Sally, Minne, Gibb,<\/b> and Pack<\/b> to go to my wife that she may dispose of as she chooses, so they are left among my children, but according to her own notion.<\/p>\n
I wish my son Samuel L. <\/b>to collect a debt (from each of the following): David Lyons, Jr.<\/b>, Thomas Taylor<\/b>, John McWilliams<\/b>, Orville Bradley<\/b>, <\/b>and Jacob Burris<\/b> and to account for same on final settlement with Pleasant Henderson<\/b>.<\/p>\n
My just debt to be paid out of any money on hand, and if there is a surplus it is to go to my wife.<\/p>\n
I bequeath to my daughter Amanda<\/b> one boy per name of Bill<\/b>.<\/p>\n
All the grain of every kind to be left for use of the family.<\/p>\n
I do hereby appoint Pleasant<\/b> and Samuel L. Henderson <\/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 30th of March, 1843.<\/p>\n
Samuel<\/b> [X<\/span>] Henderson <\/b>(seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Samuel Henderson<\/b> to be his last will in the presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator.<\/p>\n Robert Johnson 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 254 Proven: May Term, 1843 In the Name of God Amen. I Samuel Henderson of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee, being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory do …<\/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-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","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=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWilliam F. McCullah<\/b><\/p>\n
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