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I John Armstrong<\/span> do make and publish this as my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made heretofore.<\/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 moneys that I may die possessed of or may first come into the hands of my executor.<\/p>\n Second I give and bequeath to my daughter Darky Jane Murry<\/span> five dollars for which I have previously heretofore provided for.<\/p>\n Thirdly I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Harris<\/span> thirty dollars for which I have previously heretofore provided for.<\/p>\n Fourth I gave and bequeath to my son James Armstrong<\/span> or his heirs one dollar for which I have previously heretofore provided for.<\/p>\n Fifth I will and bequeath to the heirs of my daughter Milley ___<\/span> eighty dollars for which I have previously heretofore provided for.<\/p>\n Sixth I give and bequeath to my daughter Tabitha Staples<\/span> eighty five dollars for which I have previously provided for.<\/p>\n Seventh I give and bequeath to my daughter Eliza Armstrong<\/span> a bedstead and furniture and eighty five dollars in cash.<\/p>\n Eighth I give and bequeath to daughter Susanah Armstrong<\/span> one bedstead and furniture and eight five dollars in cash.<\/p>\n Ninth I give and bequeath to my son Wiley Armstong<\/span> fifty acres of my land estate off of the upper end of my land including my dwelling house and out houses and one bedstead and furniture.<\/p>\n Tenth I give and bequeath to my son John Armstrong<\/span> fifty acres of my land estate lying next to the part that I gave my son Wiley<\/span> and one bedstead and furniture.<\/p>\n Eleventh I give and bequeath to my son Clinton Armstrong<\/span> the remainder of my land if any there be.<\/p>\n Twelfth I will and bequeath that my slave Sida<\/span> shall be sold together with my other personal property.<\/p>\n Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint Thomas A. Long<\/span> my executor in witness whereof I do to this my last will set my hand and seal this 23 day of February 1861.<\/p>\n John Armstong<\/span> (seal)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed and published in our presence and we have subscribed our names hereto in the presence of the testator February 22, 1861<\/p>\n David Lyons Jr.<\/span> [Typist’s note: \u00a0Please note testator signed date appears as 23 February 1861 and witnessed on 22 February 1861 – probably mistake by original transcriber]<\/p>\n Transcribed by Betty Mize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book 2, Page 13 (blank spaces indicate unreadable words or letters) I John Armstrong do make and publish this as my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made heretofore. …<\/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-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Thomas A. Long <\/span><\/p>\n
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