WILL: John Cameron, 1825, Bullitt Co., KY

*****************************************************************************
USGENWEB NOTICE:  In keeping with our policy of providing free 
information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial 
entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These 
electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other 
presentation.  Commercial entities must ask for and receive permission 
from submitter before downloading.

Contributed by genebird@hotmail.com 
Date: 29 Aug 2000 
*****************************************************************************

Will Book B page 173, Bullitt Co., Ky.

Will of John Cameron

I, John Cameron of Bullitt County and State of Kentucky being of sound and disposing mind 
and memory but of advanced age and under the consciousness that my (death?) is certain and 
eminent according to the established course of nature (I hereby?) do make and ordain this to 
be my last will and testament.

First it is my will that whatever land I shall be possessed of or entitled to shall be 
vested in and belong to my beloved brother, The Reverend Archibald Cameron of Shelby County 
and State aforesaid to him and his heirs forever.

Second, It is my will that whatever slaves I shall possess or be entitled to at my death 
shall vest in my said beloved brother Archibald Cameron to be held by him, his heirs in 
trust for my two nephews Archibald Brown and John Brown to be given to them by my said 
brother when and in such parcels as he shall in his discretion think most prudent during his 
life.  But at his death, the said slaves are to be vested in and belong exclusively to my 
said nephews Archibald C. and John Brown, or the survivor of them.  If either of them shall 
have departed this life without lawful issue, living at he death of my said brother, then 
the other is to have the whole of my slaves and if both of them shall have departed this 
life without issue before the death of my said brother then the said slaves are absolutely 
to vest in and to be disposed by my said brother at his direction and failure of each 
disposition are to descend to his heirs as the law may direct.  My slaves exist in
unbroken families.  I am unwilling that the family chain among them should be broken, and 
therefor recommend it my brother to be respectful of the family ties and sympathies which 
exist among them in any disposition he may make of them.  I make the like recommendation to 
my beloved nephews  in relation to the said slaves when they shall have come into their 
possession. 

Third, All the balance of personal estate of whatever kind or description is hereby given to 
my said brother Archibald Cameron charged with the payment of whatever debts I may owe at my 
decease.

Lastly, I hereby constitute and appoint my said brother Archibald Cameron the sole executor 
of this my last will and testament and having unlimited confidence in him I hereby direct 
that no bail shall be required of him by the County Court when he takes upon himself the 
executorial duties herein enjoined.  The Court is required to record him as my executor 
without requiring of him any bail or security whatever for the performance of his duty or 
any oath for the true performance thereof.  Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of 
October in the year of our lord 1825. 

John Cameron  (Seal)
Witness:  Austin Hall, Robert Donaldson

State of Kentucky, Bullitt County Court March the 17th 1828. 
I Noah C. Summers, Clerk of the County Court aforesaid do certify that on this day the Last 
Will and Testament of John Cameron was produced in open court and proved by the oaths of  
Austin Hall and Robert Donaldson subscribing witnesses thereto to be the act and deed of the 
decedent John Cameron agreeably to law, and the same was ordered to be recorded which is
done accordingly

Atteste:
Noah Summers, clk BCC.

======================
Will book B,   page  189
Bullitt County Court 17 March 1828.
On the motion of Archibald Cameron Executor of the last will and testament of John Cameron 
dec'd orders that Charles Drake, Elijah Wright, Hugh Stewart and Joseph Swearingen, or any 
three of whom ----- ----- ---- ---- They are hereby appointed appraisers to appraise  ---- 
in current money the personal estate and slaves of if any of the said decedent and make 
report thereof to court or the law required.
Noah C. Summers, Clerk

Bullitt County Court. 
This day, Charles Drake, Joseph Swearingen, and Hugh Stewart three of the commissioners 
named in the within order came personally before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace for 
said County and took the oath required by law-  Sept.17, 1828,   Pat? P. Saunders,  J.P.

In obedience to --- orders of the Bullitt County Court this 17th day of March 1828 to 
appraise the property of John Cameron Dec'd.