Will Book ___, Page 490<\/p>\n
State of Tennessee, Hawkins County, May the 11th day, 1835 —<\/p>\n
To all whom these presents may come greetings.<\/p>\n
I, Joseph White<\/span>, in the name of God, Amen, Being frail in body but sound in memory do make and A doine [as transcribed<\/span>] this my last Will & Testament.<\/p>\n First of all. After my death, I desire my body to be buried decently and the expenses paid out of my Estate. Then secondly, I give and bequeath to my youngest daughter, Elizabeth<\/span>, a certain tract and parcel of land that I bought of my son George White<\/span>, and he from William Moore<\/span>, being in said county war [where] I now live for her only proper use and to her heirs.<\/p>\n And I give and bequeath to my son William Gilmore White<\/span> 100 acres of land, Burd<\/span>‘s Old Survey adjoining my daughter Elizabeth<\/span>, be the same more or less, and I give and bequeath to my son in law Abram Shuttles<\/span> 100 acres of land in said county, it being the tract whereon he now lives, it being savied [surveyed?] by warrant.<\/p>\n I give and bequeath unto my son George White<\/span> $400.00,<\/p>\n and I give and bequeath to my daughter Jemina White<\/span> the sum of $20.00, to be paid to her or her ares [heirs?] out of a certain tract of land lying joinin old Alexander Ballard<\/span> when sold.<\/p>\n And the money maid out of said land, and I give and bequeath to my daughter Sally<\/span> $20.00 to be paid out of said land when sold and the money made out of said land.<\/p>\n And the balance of money arising from the said land to go to pay the expenses arisen on said Estate and the land to be sold by my Executors.<\/p>\n And also, it is my will that my youngest daughter Elizabeth<\/span> shall have her bed and furniture.<\/p>\n And this I make and Ordain my last will and testament whereunto I set my hand this day and date above written.<\/p>\n And it is my will that my son George White<\/span> shall be my Executor.<\/p>\n Joseph White<\/span> (seal)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed, published, pronounced by the Testator in the presence of:<\/p>\n James Lee<\/span> This Hawkins County Will was transcribed by one of the following volunteers: Audrae Mathis; Gary Fletcher; Betty Mize; Diana Arney; Karen Negron, Kathey Welder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will Book ___, Page 490 State of Tennessee, Hawkins County, May the 11th day, 1835 — To all whom these presents may come greetings. I, Joseph White, in the name of God, Amen, Being frail in body but sound in …<\/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-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
James Pangle<\/span><\/p>\n
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