Bath County KyArchives Wills.....Sorency, Jacob January 11, 1817 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Alice Warner http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 January 30, 2008, 1:42 pm Source: Will Book, Courthouse Written: January 11, 1817 Recorded: April 14, 1817 In the name of God Amen I Jacob Sorency now sick and like unto Death and in my proper mind and memory I now resign myself to the will of the great and first Causer of all things and making this my last will and Testament Revoking all others that have heretofore* been made and acknowledged this to be my desire and wish in the distribution of my Real and personal Estate as follows to wit I will and Bequeath unto my beloved wife Jeanny Sorency the land and tennements House and household furniture whereon I now live horses cattle hogs and Sheep Negroes named Ails Harison Meriah George Edney Franky Rachel and Josephus which is all for her Behoof and use during her nateral life the Negroes to be disposed of at her death as She the said Jeanny Sorrency may think proper, Excepting Ails Which I wish at her death to be set free the others named Negroes above at her disposal I also will and Bequeath unto my Beloved Brother David Sorency ten dollars also John and Silas Sorency sons of my Brother David five dollars allwhich is to be paid out of the before mentioned Estate and I Jacob Sorency doth affirm this foregoing will my Last and appoint and Constitute my beloved wife Jeanny Sorency an Ecetrise to the same and no other this Twenty Sise year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky January 11th Eighteen hundred and Seventeen D B Boyd Joel Thomas (his mark) Jacob Sorency Lewis Corbin At a court held for Bath County on the 14th day of April 1817 This instrument of writing perporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Jacob Sorency Deceased was proven in open court by the oaths of Joel Thomas and Lewis Corbin, witnesses thereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded and established on the motion of Jinny Sorency the Executrise in Sd Will named who made oathe as the Law directs It is ordered that probate be granted her in due form of Law giving Security whereupon She together with Joel Thomas and John Arnett entered into and acknowleged bond in the penalty of $4000 Conditioned for the due and faithfull Administration of Sd Decdents estate and performance of his will Test William M Sudduth Clerk Bath County Court File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/bath/wills/sorency402gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/