Will Book ___, Page 425<\/p>\n
I Nancy Rouse<\/span> do make and publish this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made.<\/p>\n First of all, 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 Executors.<\/p>\n Secondly, I give and bequeath to my beloved son, John Rouse<\/span>, my tract of land, lying on the south side of Clinch Mountain in Little Poor Valley, also on the left prong of Cove Creek, beginning and running as follows:<\/p>\n Beginning on a poplar and hickory on or near Michael<\/span>‘s corner, then south forty one, east fifty poles to an oak and beech. Then north fifty five, east two hundred and eight poles to a stake. Then north thirty, east one hundred poles to a stake. Then north sixty five,east twenty poles to a stake on Shanks<\/span>‘ line. Then north thirty, west forty poles to a stake. Then south fifty, west three hundred and thirty five poles to the beginning.<\/p>\n And, thirdly, I will and bequeath to Mary Smith<\/span> & Elizabeth Purcell<\/span> & Nancy Hart<\/span> my beloved daughters, equally, all my household and kitchen furnitures<\/p>\n and fourthly, I will and bequeath that all my horses and cattle and hogs and all other plantation property that I may die possessed of may be equally divided between all my children.<\/p>\n In witness whereof I do set my hand and seal This June 13th, 1842.<\/p>\n Nancy<\/span> [X<\/span>] Rouse<\/span> (seal) (her mark)<\/p>\n Signed and sealed and published in our presence & we have subscribed our names here in the presence of the Testator:<\/p>\n James Y. Campbell<\/span> (seal) 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 425 I Nancy Rouse do make and publish this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made. First of all, I direct that my funeral …<\/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-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Silas Campbell<\/span> (seal)<\/p>\n
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