Will Book __, Page 474<\/p>\n
In the Name of God, Amen.<\/p>\n
I, James Vaughan<\/span> of Hawkins County, being in moderate health, knowing that it is appointed that all men has to die, therefore, I commit my soul to God who gave it, and I do constitute this my Will & Testament in manner and form as follows, Viz:<\/p>\n My will and desire is that my son John Vaughan<\/span> shud hold all the perishable property, the one half to be kept for the well support of my beloved wife, Sally Vaughan<\/span>.<\/p>\n Then my will and desire is that my son John<\/span> shud have the land and plantation whereon I now live containing 100 acres, also 30 acres known by the (name of) Wooten<\/span> Place, also an entry of 30 acres lying on the north side of the copper ridge which has not been surveyed,<\/p>\n then my will and desire is that the part of my land lying on Clinch River shud be rented till the death of my beloved wife Sally Vaughan<\/span> for her support, and at her death my son John<\/span> may sell the same or keep it,<\/p>\n tho my will and desire is if my just debts are paid at the death of my wife Sally<\/span>, and my son John<\/span> sees cause to keep said river tract of land, my will and desire is that he shud pay William Vaughan<\/span>, Allen Vaughan<\/span>, Nancy Donnelson<\/span>, Patsy Rogers<\/span>, Elizabeth Harrel<\/span> $50.00 each in money or good trade, if they see cause to take such.<\/p>\n And lastly, I appoint my son_ [as transcribed<\/span>] James Vaughan<\/span>, Joseph Vaughan<\/span>, and Benjamin Vaughan<\/span> Executors of this my last Will & Testament.<\/p>\n Signed, sealed. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 8th day of September 1840<\/p>\n James Vaughan<\/span> (seal)<\/p>\n Witnesses:<\/p>\n James Payne 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 474 In the Name of God, Amen. I, James Vaughan of Hawkins County, being in moderate health, knowing that it is appointed that all men has to die, therefore, I commit my soul to God who …<\/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-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","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=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGeorge Payne<\/span><\/p>\n
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