WILL: Abraham Field, 1852, Bullitt County, KY

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Transcribed by: Anne  Livingston - Livings1@aol.com
Date:  1 Nov 1999 
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Bullitt County Will Book D p. 475
I Abraham FIELD of the County of Bullitt and State of Kentucky do make 
declare and publish this paper to be my last will and testament.

1st.  Having heretofore given sundry negroes to each of my five children 
considered by me to be equall in value.  Now my Will is that such advancement 
be so held and regarded in the further distribution of my Estate.

2nd  As regards advancements of personal property at different times made by 
me to my children minutes of most of which are to be found in my Books my 
will and desire is and I hereby invest my Executors hereinafter named with 
full power to settle and arrange the same upon equitable principles and in 
that as in every other matter of inheritance connected with the adjustment of 
my affairs a majority of them are to govern.

3rd I give unto my son Abram H. FIELD, being the Youngest, my buggy.  My 
Wardrobe of clothes, one bed, bedding & furniture and my clock.

4th I give unto my Grandson Abram Field BROOKS my Gold Watch to be kept by 
him in remembrance of myself whose name he bears.

5th I desire that the shot gun now belonging  to my son Alfred J. FIELD be 
purchased of Him, preserved for and given when he is old enough to my 
grandson Abram H. BOWMAN in remembrance of his father whose property it once 
was..

6th I give and bequeath all my Estate real, personal and mixed not above 
disposed of to my five children, Richard H. FIELD, Alfred J. FIELD, Abram H. 
FIELD, Elizabeth E. BROOKS and Mary Jane TRUNNELL share and share alike to 
property made them as before refered to.

7th  I do hereby constitute my three sons Richard H. FIELD, Alfred J. FIELD, 
Abram H. FIELD and my son in law Solomon W. BROOKS Executors of this my last 
will and Testament and instruct that they be permitted to qualify as such 
without giving any security.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and seal this 29 day of July 1852.

J. A. FIELD

In the presence of
Lorenzo HOGLAND
Lloyd FRIDDLE

Recorded Bullitt County KY Court 16 Aug 1852.