Daviess Co. IN Probate  Bk. A  p.50   17 May 1824   (original
spelling retained)

John AIKMAN, Jr.  Deceased   Last will and Testament, to Wit:

In the name of God, Amen.  I, John AIKMAN, Jr., of Davis County State
of Indiana, being in a weak and low condition but in perfect mind and
memory, Thanks be to God, calling to mind the mortality of my body,
And knowing that it is appointed for all men to die, do make and
ordain this my last will and testament, and first of all I commit and
recommend my soul to God that gave it and my body to the dust to be
burried in a decent and Christian like manner Believing that at the
general resurrection of the Just we shall again be reunited by the
power of Almighty God.  And as touching the worldly Estate with which
it has pleased God to bless me, I give and bequeath in the following
manner viz. 
First I order and ordain that all my just debts be paid.
2nd I bequeath to my beloved wife Mary, one negro Girl now in
Kentucky, which was the property of said Mary before I married her
also two beds and bedding and one cow and calf.  And all her wearing
apprerell and two bedsteads and one bureau, one falling leaf table
and the possession of the place I now live on for the Term of Three
years from March next.
And 3rd that all my present estate be sold by my executors and the
money ariseing from the sale to be appropriated to the payment of the
land I now live on and if there is sufficient money to pay it out
then it shall be rented out until Thomas and John R., my two sons
shall become of lawful age and then the land shall be sold and the
money Equally Divided between them.  And if there be not enough money
to pay out the land then it shall go equally to the support of my two
children.
And 4th I do constitute, order and ordain James CARNAHAN and William
TRAYLOR my executors to settle and transact all my Business of my
Estate.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
seventeenth day of May 1824.  Signed, sealed, published and declared
by me John AIKMAN , Jr.
John AIKMAN, Jr {seal}
                                            
In the presence of James CARNAHAN, John AIKMAN, John STRINGER

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