Will Book __, Page 266<\/p>\n
In the Name of God, Amen.<\/p>\n
I Thomas Jackson<\/b> of Hawkins County in the State of Tennessee, being of sound mind, do make this my will & desire that my Estate be divided in the following manner.<\/p>\n
That my sons Robert <\/b>and James<\/b> have their maintenance off the plantation where I now live until they come of age<\/p>\n
and that my eldest son Joseph S. Jackson<\/b> have all my land in Hawkins County, the farming utensils and household furniture, with a negro boy named Berry <\/b>and the horses to be equally divided among all my children.<\/p>\n
My land in Overton and on Big Lick Creek in West Tennessee to be equally divided between my children James, Robert <\/b>and Bethunia.<\/b><\/p>\n
My daughter is to have the negro woman named Minta<\/b>.<\/p>\n
James M. Jackson<\/b> is to have a negro boy named Sam<\/b>, and Robert<\/b> is to have the boy named Sandy<\/b>,<\/p>\n
and as there is notes in my desk to the amount of $2,700.00, I desire that my debts may first be paid then the the balance to be equally divided among all my children,<\/p>\n
and as my son Joseph<\/b> is absent from home, it is my desire that my sons James<\/b> and Robert <\/b>continue to live on my plantation in Hawkins County,<\/p>\n
and should Joseph<\/b> die before he comes home, then my Estate in Hawkins County is to be equally divided between James <\/b>and Robert<\/b> and in that case, Joe<\/b> and Eve<\/b> is to be the property of Bethunia H. Jackson<\/b>.<\/p>\n
But should Joe<\/b> return, then them old negroes may become the property of that child who will pay for them dividing the value equally among them, and Berry<\/b> also should Joe<\/b> die before he comes home — he being yet under age.<\/p>\n
I appoint M. Neil<\/b> and George Hale<\/b> my attornies to see this my will Executed and to them I join my son James M. Jackson<\/b>.<\/p>\n
As witness my hand & seal This 27th day of January, 1817.<\/p>\n
Thomas Jackson <\/b>(seal)<\/p>\n
Test:<\/p>\n
Samuel<\/b> [X<\/span>] Spears<\/b> (his mark) 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 266 In the Name of God, Amen. I Thomas Jackson of Hawkins County in the State of Tennessee, being of sound mind, do make this my will & desire that my Estate be divided in the …<\/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-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJames Breeden <\/b><\/p>\n
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