Boone County, KY - Will of Gaines, Churchill, 1833

Friday, 1 October 1999



Submitted by:  lharding@worldnet.att.net  (Buddy & Linda Harbin-Grubbs)

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   LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF CHURCHILL GAINES 



Boone Co., KY. Will Bk. C, pg 20 & 21:

I Churchill Gaines of Boone County Kentucky being sound in mind memory and 

understanding but calling to mind the uncertainty of Human life and being 

desirous to make some disposition of my Estate by will to this and for that 

purpose I make and constitute the following to be my last will and Testament.

In the first place I wish to be buried after my decease in a decent manner 

and that all my just debts should be paid as soon as the nature of the case 

may admit.

Secondly I do will and bequeath the whole of my estate real and personal or 

mixed to my beloved wife Polly Gaines & to my son Edwin Gaines as follows 

for my wife to have and keep the whole of it until my son Edwin arrives to 

the age of twenty one years, at which time it is my will that it be divided 

between my said wife and son giving to my said wife one third and my said 

son the other two thirds of it be it more or less and be it in whatever kind 

of property that may then belong to my Estate.

Thirdly It is my will & desire that my executor hereafter named shall have 

the liberty & privilege of selling and conveying the whole of my real estate 

or any part of it as well as my negroes or any of them either at publick or 

private sale as they may think best then and there to put the money out at 

interest or purchase other land or negroes with it for the benefit of my 

estate as they in their judgement may think best being careful however to 

have all debts on my estate to be well secured; and to keep a particular 

account of all their sales loans purchases income and expenditures of every 

kind.

Fourthly It is my wish that my son Edwin should be well Educated----well 

raised and that such sums of money out of my estate should be expended for 

those purposes as may be considered necessary & prudent by my executor and 

also that my beloved wife Should in like manner have a genteel and comfort-

able support out of it during her life & then for my son Edwin to have all 

that is hereby given or willed to her.

Fifth. I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my beloved wife Polly 

Gaines & my Brother in law Paschal Rucker executors & Executrix of this my 

last will & Testament.

In Testimony whereof I do hereinto set my hand name & seal this 6th day of 

January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.

signed, sealed & acked & 

processed in presence of              Churchill Gaines (seal)

N.E. Hawes

H---- nake

Willis Graves

     Boone County Court 

      September Term 1833

This last will and testament of Churchill Gaines was produced in Court, and 

proven by the Oaths of Willis Graves and Nathaniel E. Hawes two of the 

subscribing witnesses thereto be the act and deed of said Churchill Gaines 

and thereupon ordered to be recorded whereupon the same is duly recorded. 

      Att: Willis Graves, Clk. 

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