WILL: James Cunningham, 1817, Bullitt County, KY

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Transcribed by: Anne  Livingston - Livings1@aol.com
Date:  18 Dec 1999 
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Bullitt County Will Book A p. 258
In the name of god amen.  I James CUNNINGHAM of Bullitt County KY being weak 
in body but sound in mind and memory, Thanks be to god for the same but 
calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for 
all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and testament that 
is to say - principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into 
the hands of almighty god and my body I recommend to the Earth to burial in 
decent burial at the direction of my Executors and as touching such worldly 
estate as it has pleased god to bless me with in this life I give devise and 
dispose of in the following manner and form viz.  first it is my will and 
desire that my personal property & real estate be appraised and remain unsold 
and undivided in the hands of my children to make what Improvements they can 
so long as they continue together.  ----- would be untill my youngest 
daughter comes of age but Whenever all of the children marry.  It is my wish 
that my Executors divide unto the ones then married or departed from the 
family his or her equal part as the case may be and set the residue of my 
children and property to remain together untill such time as the family get 
so settled that they can't remain any longer together or at a time as my 
youngest child comes of age then the property to be sold and equally divided 
amongst my children all To Wit Catharine, Sarah, Edmund, William, Francis, 
James & Polly and I ----- and appoint my well beloved friends Sam'l K. SPARKS 
(?) and William MARKWELL the sole executors of this my last will and 
testament and I do hereby totally revoke, disannull and disallow all other 
former wills and testaments in any Means before Willed and bequeathed.  
Ratifying transferring this and no other to be my last Will and testament. In 
Witness Wherof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 24th day 
of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and seventeen.

(signed)
James (X) CUNNINGHAM

signed and sealed in the presence of  John HALL,  Josiah (X) PORTER, Henry 
GENTRY and Alexander KING

Recorded Bullitt County KY Court 3 November 1819