Bath County KY WILL: Reuben Hunt Sr, 1822, Probate: 1826

Submitted by: Smith, Elizabeth (ESmith@Montgomery.k12.ky.us)
Date: Friday, May 15, 1998

Bath Co., KY, Will Book B, Page 70

Will of Reuben Hunt, Sr.
Written: 10 July 1822
Probated: January Court, 1826

In the name of God, Amen
I Reuben Hunt Sr. being frail in body and much afflicted yet in my perfect senses do make 
this my last will and testament. And first it is my will and desire and I do will the tract 
of land on which I now live together with singular and all its appertinances to my wife 
Nancy Hunt and also all the goods and chattels live stock and all the property on estate of 
any kind what so ever to me in any wise belonging to her my said wife to have and to
hold and exercise full ownership over without rent or other charge during her natural life 
except so much of the aforesaid tract of land as lies within the following bounds to wit: 
Beginning where buck creek now runs against the hill above where Thatcher Hiet now lives 
there south course to my line thence with said line to the beginning of my tract of land 
thence with my line to buck creek thence with said creek to the upper end of the little 
bottom in which he (Thatcher Hiet) has cleared some ground to the beginning which boundary I 
will to the said Thatcher Hiet at the death of my aforesaid wife I wish the said Hiet to 
have the bend of the aforesaid parcel of ground from the present time so long as he thinks 
fit to live there on but to have no power to sell rent lease or other way dis of said ground
until the death of my said wife except to her and at the death of my wife Nancy Hunt I wish 
and do here by will the residue of my land to my two youngest sons to wit: Joseph D. Hunt 
and william S. Hunt to be equally divided between them the said Joseph D. Hunt and William 
S. Hunt and the personal estate goes to my wife to be divided at the discretion of my said
wife between my three daughters to wit: Pheba Nancy and Elizabeth and if my said wife dies 
before distributing said personal estate between the aforesaid three daughters then in that 
case it is my wissh that the aforesaid personal estate be equally divided among my aforesaid 
three daughters  and where as I formerly gave to my son Jeremiah Hunt fifty acres of land
worth at least fifty dollars also to Reuben Hunt my son I gave the occupancy of one house 
and seven acres of cleared land for seven years at fifty dollars also I gave one year of his 
time and paid him for his crop and gave him hogs into the amount of fifty dollars also I 
gave to Samuel Hunt my son one mare one cow and calf one bed and furniture to the value of 
fifty dollars also I have Hester Hiet one horse worth twenty five dollars also I gave to my 
daughter Rebecca Rice one bed and furniture and other things to the amount of what I had 
gave to aforesaid distributees and to my daughter Polly now married to Anthony Matthews I 
will the use and benefit of the ground lying above my upper string of fence on buck creek to 
til for the term of seven years after the first day of next January 1823 to gether with
other things to the amount of fifty dollars and in consideration of the above distribution 
among my children already married and left me and wishing to make an equal distribution to 
all of my children and being convinced that them to whome I have already given will have 
their equal share with them to whome I have willed the residue of my estate it is therefore 
my wish that the above distributees have no more then that they have already received and
I also by these present leave and appoint my wife Nancy Hunt and Bazel Hunt son of John Hunt 
administratrix and administrator to this my last will and testament Signed and sealed this 
10th day of July and in the year of our lord 1822 
in presence of Reuben Hunt
Joseph G. Williams
Bazel Hunt Jr. 

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