Bourbon-Campbell-Scott County KyArchives Wills.....Grant, Elizabeth January 1 1814 ************************************************ 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: John Graff john.graff@gte.net December 20, 2004, 1:53 pm Source: Fayette County Will Book C (ky) P. 99 Written: January 1 1814 Recorded: July 1814 WILL OF ELIZABETH GRANT FAYETTE COUNTY WILL BOOK C (KY) p. 99 A copy of this Will may be obtained from the Kentucky Room in the Lexington [KY] Public Library . Asterisks are used to hold the place of a word when it was indecipherable. Elizabeth Grant of Fayette County aged about 82 years being low in health but of sound mind, do make constitute & ordain this my last will & Testament in manner & form following To wit 1st I give & bequeath my Negro woman Jane to my beloved Daughter Mary Mitchell and her heirs forever. 2nd I give my negro girl Affirmity to my grand Daughter Mary Moore and her heirs forever. 3rd I give my negro Boy Dickey Redding to the heirs of my son William Grant Deceased to them & their heirs forever on condition that they pay over to my son William Grant son of John Grant the sum of two hundred and ten dollars. 4th I give & bequeath my Negro girl Caroline to my Grand Daughter Molly Somon also one horse colt that came of my mare also all my household furniture of every description to her & her heirs forever. 5th I give my negro girl Abby to my grand daughter Elsa B Pugh and her heirs forever. 6th I give & bequeath to my Daughter Rebecca Lemmon my Negro woman Fanny her child Misay which said negros I hereby deposit in the hand of my Friends John C Richardson & John Pugh as Trustees for the benefit of my Daughter Rebecca aforesaid without the Control of her Husband James Lemmon. Lastly I hereby appoint my friends John C Richardson & John Pugh & Thomas B Warren my Executors to Execute this my last will & In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty first day January 1814. Elizabeth C Grant seal Mark Teste Charles Smith Sr Israel B Grant Joel H Hander ++++++++ Fayette County tenet This day John Hurst Thomas B Warren and James ??? personally came before me, a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, and were duly sworn according to law to appraise in current money, the personal Estate and slaves of Elizabeth Grant deceased & certified under my hand this 10th day of May 1814. John C Richardson By virtue of the authority vested in us by an order from the County Court of Fayette we have proceeded to appraise as follows: Two Beds and furniture both at $20 Two Bedsteads 3 A stand Bed curtain 10 3 pair sheets 11 2 bed quilts 8 1 rug or shaggy bed cover 3 7 pillow cases 1.37 1 Blanket 1.30 1 Dining table 3.50 2 Chests 6.00 6 _________ chairs 6.00 4 Cornnian split bottomed chairs 1.33 one pewter plates 3.00 7 white plates $1.16 A pewter dish 87 /@ one pewter buson 1.50 5 cups and saucers 00 /@ 5 glass tumblers 0.62 /@ one white bowl 23 one tea pot 0.25 one tin coffee pot 00.3 /@ one soup spoon 0.12 6 silver tea spoons 3.50 a warming pan 6.00 A chafing dish 2.30 one looking glass 0.50 One tea chest .70 one salt glass 0.75 One tin pepper Bore and one stand 0.25 One white pitcher 0.25 two small aformawaiters 62 /@ One Negro woman & child 475.00 One side saddle 3$ One cupboard 12.00 A shovel and tongs ??? 2.75 cents A water pale & a kettle sugar dish candle stick snifters 1.37 /@ One bedstead & bed cord 2.30 A large armchair 0.75 ---------------- ------ 608.61 /2 ---------------- ------ One kettle dutch oven Cake and skillet, gridiron & hammael $5.50 One sorrel horse $40 A pewter tea pot 0.50 One negro woman named Fanny 350.00 One negro Girl named Affirmity 170.00 One negro Boy named Dickey Redding 175.00 One negro girl named Caroline 133.33 One negro girl child named Abigail 90.00 ---------------- ------ 1571.94 cent ---------------- ------ We certify that the foregoing schedule contain a true estimate of each article in Current money to the best of our knowledge Certified under our hands the aforesaid 10th day of May 1814. Fayette County township July ??? 1814 John Hurth This Inventory and appraisement of the T B Warren Estate of Elizabeth Grant deceased was produced at open Court appointed of and ordered to be recorded ??? Additional Comments: Elizabeth (Betsy Boone, sister of Daniel Boone) Grant came to central Kentucky with her husband William Grant Sr in about 1776. They settled near Lexington, and raised children who were prominent throughout this region of Kentucky and in especially in Fayette, Bourbon, Campbell and Scott Counties. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/bourbon/wills/nwl10grant.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/kyfiles/