WILL; John Howlett, 1847, Bullitt County, KY

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Transcribed by: Anne  Livingston - Livings1@aol.com
Date:  11 Jan 2000
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John HOWLETT didn't leave a will... exactly .. this deed is about as close to 
one as anything a person would find!

Know all men by these presents that I John HOWLETT Senior of the County of 
Bullitt and State of Kentucky for and in consideration of the love and 
affection which I had for my children and grandchildren hereinafter named and 
for the further consideration of one dollar by them to me in hand paid before 
the signing, sealing and delivery of these presents hath given granted and 
forever transferred all of my estate embracing real personal and mixed to my 
following children and grandchildren the possession of which they are to have 
at my death towit: To my daughter Elizabeth MASDEN I give one equal part of 
my estate.  To my son John HOWLETT Jr. one equal part of my estate. To my 
daughter Mary GRAY and her children one equal part of my estate. To my son 
Isaac HOWLETT one equal part of my estate, six hundred dollars of which I 
have this day given him in a tract of land upon which he now resides which is 
to be deducted from his portion at my death to my son Luke HOWLETT.  I give 
one equal part of my estate to my son Harrison HOWLETT.  I give one equal 
portion of my estate to the children of my daughter Drusilla CARLILE dec'd. I 
give one equal portion of my estate.  I do hereby appoint my son John HOWLETT 
as trustee for my daughter Mary GRAY and her children and as trustee for the 
children of my daughter Drusilla CARLILE to manage and control the estate I 
have herein given to each.  I wish my said trustee to manage said estate so 
as to be profitable and beneficial to my daughter and the grand children 
above alluded to, that part of my estate I have here given to my daughter 
Mary GRAY I give remainder over to her children in and their decedents.  I 
wish my trustee to so manage the estate I have given to my daughter Mary GRAY 
as not to be under the control in any way of her husband Patrick GRAY.  The 
whole of my estate I have herein given and granted away to my children & 
grandchildren.  They are to have full free and undisturbed possession of at 
my death except the tract of land given to my son Isaac at six hundred 
dollars that he has possession of and is forever to keep possession of.  In 
witness hereof I have this day set my hand and affixed my seal this 30th day 
of Nov. 1847
(signed)

John (X) HOWLETT

in the presence of Geo. ROBERTS, William M. HOWLETT, John HOWLETT

the clerk authenticates it and following that is this addition:

Know all men by these presents that I John HOWLETT Sr. made executed a deed 
of gift to my children on 30th day November 1847 in which I stipulated that 
the children of my daughter Drusilla CARLISLE shall have an equal portion of 
my estate with the balance of my children.  This portion of said deed of gift 
I hereby revoke and after for the following reasons and in the following my 
son Isaac HOWLETT stands as the security for James CARLISLE in an Exion. to 
B. R. YOUNG four hundred and forty five dollars 31 cts.  Said CARLISLE being 
unable to pay said debt to said YOUNG I hereby direct that portion of my 
estate conveyed to the children of my daughter Mrs. CARLISLE shall beheld in 
trust by my son John HOWLETT Jr. and that said trustee is hereby authorized 
and directed to pay over after my death so much of said Interest as will be 
sufficient to cover & extinguish principal and interest of said debt to said 
YOUNG - Given under my hand and seal this 1st day June 1848.

(John (X) HOWLETT
John HOWLETT Jr.

Witnesses:
Squire HART
Aquilla HOSKINSON

Recorded 26 October 1848  Bullitt Co. KY Court