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Subject: [BLEVINS] Charles Blevins, Witness - Green Co., KY
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:17:02 EST
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CHARLES SKAGGS WILL
9 FEBRUARY 1815
GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY
Will Book 1 pp. 137-139
In the Name of god amen, I CHARLES SKAGGS Citizen of Green County, Kentucky
considering the Mortality of human Nature and that it was appointed for all
men once to die and after committing my body to the ground and my soul to god
who gave it, I make and constitute this instrument of writing whereunto my
name is subscribed to be my last will and testament, revoking all others. In
primis, all my debts of which there is but few, and none of Magnitude, are to
be paid, and then whatever there remains I will and bequeath in the following
manner that is to say first my wish and desire is that my beloved wife LUCY
SKAGGS shall have the use and profit of my whole estate Real and personal
during her Natural life except such parts as I shall hereafter mention, that is
to say the part of the land and plantation whereon I now live, and whereon my
son MOSES SKAGGS Now lives, on the South side of the branch for him to have
the use and benefit of that previous to the decease of his Mother, and at her
decease to have the hold of the land the reason of my doing this is because
he paid a greater part of the price that we gave for the land, though the deed
was made to me. And at the decease of my wife; my desire is to have the
whole of the land.
Item first I will and bequeath to my beloved son ARCHIBALD SKAGGS a negro
girl called SuSanna. Item I will and bequeath to my beloved daughter RACHEL
BLEVEN=92S heirs one dollar. Item to my beloved daughter NANCY MEREDITH an equal
part part of my estate except such parts as I have before mentioned and shall
hereafter mention. Item I will and bequeath, to my beloved son FREDERICK
SKAGGS I will and bequeath to him his equal part, among the other Children
except such parts as is before and hereafter shall be mentioned. Item to my
beloved daughter POLLY GRAY I will and bequeath to her heirs one dollar. Item to my
beloved daughter SALLY ROBERTSON, I will and bequeath an equal part with the
others except the parts before and hereafter will be mentioned. Item to my
beloved son THOMAS SKAGGS I will and bequeath my Negro boy called Bob and an
equal part with the other Children of the property before mentioned and my
said son THOMAS SKAGGS I will to be the executor to my whole estate. Item to my
beloved son MOSES SKAGGS I will bequeath my Negro man called Sepio and a
rifle gun called Sepios gun together with a equal part of the property not
mentioned. Item to TEMPY BELCHER, wife to BERRY BELCHER I will and bequeath to her
a filly called the reggie muffin to be hers immediately after my death. Item
to NATHAN BLEVIN I will and bequeath two [word crossed out] colts, one called
Jolly and the other Tody.
In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of February
in the year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
CHARLES SKAGGS
Tetes
JAMES AKIN
CHARLES BLEVINS
CHARETY HOWEL
WM. G. OWENS,Br> ZACHERIAH NANCE
At a County Court, held for Green County at the Courthouse in Greensburgh on
the 22nd day of January 1816. The within will of CHARLES SKAGGS Dec'd was
produced in Court and proven by the oath of WILLIAM G. OWENS, ZACHERIAH NANCE
and NATHANIEL OWENS subscribing witnesses to said will, and that they believed
him at the time of executing the same to be in his perfect mind and memory
and the same was ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly. Given under
my hand this 28th day of March 1816.
JOHN BARRET, cfc
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William Skaggs was born in 1757 in North Carolina. Charles Blevins,
clergyman, of Green County, Kentucky, and Samuel Brent, resident of the same,
certified that they were acquainted with William Skaggs, who was a soldier of the
Revolution.
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