Will Book __, Page 374
\nProven: Oct. Term 1855<\/p>\n
I John McWilliams<\/b> of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee do make this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me made at any time.<\/p>\n
First. I direct that my funeral expenses and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as possible out of any money that I may die possessed of, or may first come into the hands of my Executor.<\/p>\n
Item 2. I do will all my landed Estate consisting of one-third part of the tract of land that I now live on. Also, a small tract purchased of John Kinkead<\/b>, and a small entry to my grandson Joseph McWilliams<\/b>, a son of a legitimate [sic<\/span>] child who I do acknowledge as my son whose name was James McWilliams<\/b>.<\/p>\n Item 3. I will to Margaret Smith<\/b> daughter of C. Smith<\/b> one Bureau, choice of two.<\/p>\n Item 4. I do will that all my personal property be sold by Executor after giving ten days’ notice to the highest bidder on a credit of twelve months.<\/p>\n Item 5. I do will that my two negro slaves, to wit: Dol<\/b> & Masadami<\/b> a shall be divided equally between my brother Andrew<\/b>, sister Nancy<\/b>, and the proceeds of the sale of my personally [sic<\/span>] after my debts is paid to be equally divided between my (brother) Andrew McWilliams<\/b> and Nancy<\/b> my sister.<\/p>\n Lastly. I appoint Robert Cooper<\/b> as my lawful Executor.<\/p>\n In testimony whereof I do set my hand and seal, in presence of the subscribing witnesses. The Executor is not be (required) to give security. This 13th day of May, 1855.<\/p>\n John McWilliams<\/b> (seal)<\/p>\n Attest:<\/p>\n H. Hamilton 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 374 Proven: Oct. Term 1855 I John McWilliams of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee do make this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking and making void all other wills 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-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","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=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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