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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** Will of Sashwell Jordan I, Sashwell Jordan, of the county of Breckenridge, state of Kentucky, being of sound mind and ordinary health but being old and knowing I cannot live long and wishing to prevent litigation among my heirs and to do what I believe to be justice among them do make this my last will and testament hereby revoking all others ever made by me. First, I consider all my children to have been equally advanced and in the division of the estate no one of them is to be charged with advancement. I have heretofore give to Silas J., my daughter Permelia now Simmons, and Caroline now Bandy, some slaves. It is now my wish that they should not be charged with them as advancements as the slaves have since been emancipated and they were of but little value to them. I hold two notes on Marvel Jordan, one for $200 and one for $90 . The $90 I give to him and it is not to be charged to him as an advancement. The $200 note is to be regarded as a debt due the estate. I also hold a note on Aaron Simmons for $400 which is to be regarded as a debt due the estate and not an advancement. Joel Jordan is indebted to me in the sum of three hundred dollars, borrowed, which is also not to be regarded as an advancement but as a debt due the estate. I have given to Sally Avit fifty dollars which is not to be charged to her in the distribution of my estate. As to the tract of land on which I now live being all of the tract lying near Webster in Breckenridge Co conveyed to me by Elias Davis and wife except that part I ahve conveyed to Marvel Jordan. Green Jordan has by my consent purchased the interest of Silas Jordan, Marvel Jordan, and Sally Avit and has paid them for the same. I now devise to said Green Jordan all the interests which Silas Jordan, Marvel Jordan, and Sally Avit would have had as my heirs together with said Greens own interests therein to have and to hold to him and his heirs. The devise to said Green is of an undivided five ninths of said tract of land unsold as _______. The residue of said tract of land being five ninths thereof. I authorize and request my executors hereinafter named to sell at either private or public sale as they may deem just. The sale is to be made on a credit of one and two years bearing interest from date and a lein retained on the land for the payment of the purchase money. The executors are authorized to convey said land to the purchaser. My executors are also authorized and required to sell all my personal estate and collect all money due me and out of the fund arising from the sale of my land, personal property, money on hand and charges in action. I devise to Marvel Jordan (my son) one ninth, to my daughter Betsy Claycomb wife of Nelson Claycomb one ninth to her, sole, separate and exclusive use from the debts or control of her husband. To my son Joel Jordan one ninth. To Timothy Jordan and Wm Jordan, sons of my son William Jordan I devise one ninth to be equally divided between them. I make this devise to them exclusively and not to the other children of William for the purpose of educating them and raising them up, the other children having received their education. To Permelia Simmons one ninth to her, sole separate and exclusive use free from the control of debts of her husband. To Silas my son one ninth. To my son Green 1/9th part of all my estate except the proceeds of the sale of the land and as I have devised his interest in the land to him he is to have no part of proceeds of sales of land. To Sally Avit one ninth part for her sole separate and exclusive use free from the control of debts of her husband. As Silas Jordan, Marvel Jordan, and Sally Avit have sold their interest in the tract of land above described and received pay thereof for the land they are not to have any part of the proceeds of the sale of this land directed to be made by this will, but one ninth of the reidue only of said estate and the proceeds of sale land to be distributed as above directed amongs the other heirs and devises above named. I hereby appoint my son Green Jordan executor of this my last will and testament. In testimony thereof I hereto subscribe my name and seal the 24th of March 1870. his Sashwell Jordan mark Jesse W. Kincheloe Ben H. Wathen Samuel H. Bassett State of Kentucky Breckinridge Co court Nov term Nov 16, 1874 A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Sashwell Jordan deceased was this day produced in open court and proven according to law by the oaths of Jesse W. Kincheloe and Samuel H. Bassett subscribing witness thereto and adjudged by the court to be the true last will and testament of said Sashwell Jordan deceased and ordered to record. Att: G.P. Jolly, clerk By Bion Jolly, D.C.