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I JOHN DONOHO of Sumner County and state of Tennessee do make ordain and declare this Instrument which is subscribed with my name to be my last will and Testament, revoking all others. All my debts are to be punctually paid, and the Legacies herein after bequeathed are to be discharged as soon as circumstances will permit and in the manner directed.
To my dearly beloved wife ELIZABETH DONOHO I give and bequeath the place whereon I now live the time of her natural life, with two work horses and a breeding mare to carry on the farm and also three cows and calves, as it is my will and desire she should raise the children, she is also to keep all the household furniture and implements of husbandry sufficient to carry on the farm. And if the house I now live in is not a comfortable one, it is my desire that eighty four acres of land, which EDMUND (Edward?) JENNINGS has located, or is about to locate, be sold and the money appropriated to the building of a comfortable house. The land at her decease to be disposed of as hereinafter mentioned.
To my eldest son JOHN DONOHO I give and bequeath two hundred acres of land, lying on the Dry Fork of Bledsoe Creek as laid off to him.
My second son WILLIAM DONOHO has already received his dividend.
To ISAAC DONOHO my third son I give and bequeath two hundred acres of land on Bledsoe Creek, and near the mouth of said Creek, as the same has been laid off to him.
To WALTER DONOHO, JOSHUA DONOHO and BENJAMIN DONOHO the fourth, fifth and sixth sons I give to each of them one hundred and ten acres of land, lying on the Dry Fork of Bledsoe's Creek, as already laid off to them.
To JAMES DONOHO and ANTHONY DONOHO my seventh and eighth sons I give and bequeath the first viz. ISAAC two hundred and seventy six acres of land lying on Bledsoe's Creek, adjoining my son ISAAC'S it being part of the same tract to ANTHONY, my youngest son the place where on I now live at the decease of his mother. Deeds of conveyance are to be made to my sons to my sons JOHN and ISAAC at any time when they demand them. A tract of land containing one hundred and ten (two?) acres which I gave to my son WILLIAM DONOHO and which my son JOHN purchased of him as it joins the land I gave to the latter may be included in the same deed of conveyance.
As to the rest of my lands herein bequeath it is my will that no conveyance be made until such time as the Legatees respectively arive at the age of twenty one years and then such legal conveyances made as the law requires. My sheep and hogs is to remain the property of my wife, or at least as many as my Executors think necessary. As to the rest of my property which consists in horses (?) and cattle together with my horse mill is to be sold at public sale allowing a reasonable credit and the moneys arising therefrom to be put to interest, and as the Legatees respectively come to age viz the males to twenty and the females to eighteen they are each to receive the sum of twenty dollars But as my four eldest sons JOHN, ISAAC, WILLIAM and WALTER have received their shares already, it is not my intention, they should have any other part of the moneys arising from the sale of the property and as for the fact I allowed to my daughter KITTY HOLMES viz sixty dollars I leave to her son JOHN HOLMES to be _ to him until he comes of age. But to prevent all ambiguity in this subject there are none to receive any part of the moneys issuing from the sale of the property but those hereinafter mentioned viz. JOSHUA, BENJAMIN, JAMES and ANTHONY, SUSANNAH , BETSY & POLLY among whom the money issuing from the sale of the property is to be equally divided distributing in the first place what may be thought necessary for the schooling of the children together with the sixty dollars to my Grandson JOHN HOLMES, and I have reason to believe it will amount to seventy dollars for each if not more.
Lastly I constitute and appoint my son JOHN DONOHO, JAMES RICE (?), Esq and
ARCHABOLD MARLIN Executors of this my last will and Testament. In witness of all and each
of the things herein contained I here set my hand and seal this twenty eighth day of May in the
year One Thousand eight hundred and two.
In presence of JAMES WILLIS
JOHN his mark DONOHO
seal
JOHN FERRIN/FENNIS(?)
ARCH~ MARLIN
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