Clark-Fayette County KyArchives Wills.....Davis, Leonard May 17, 1816 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jeanine Ems normadeplume@wmconnect.com and R. Ems churchmouse11@msn.com April 18, 2005, 2:06 pm Source: Copy Of Will Written: May 17, 1816 In the name of God amen. I Leonard Davis of Clark County and state of Kentucky ________ in good health and in sound mind and memory. Calling to mind the mortality of this body and the certainty of death when it shall please God to call me home do make ordain and deliver this my Last Will and Testament revoking and disavowing by these ______ all other testaments, wills or wills heretofore by me made and this only to be taken for my Last Will and Testament and none other. And now, for the settling of my real estate and such goods and chattels as it has pleased God to bless me with. I do ordain, give and dispose the same in the following manner. First I will that all my just debts be paid. Secondly I will the balance and whole of my estate including all legacies heretofore given to me or which may be hereafter given me, be the same either real estate or personal, to my children (to wit) Augustus [poss. Augustine or Augustin]Davis, Elizabeth Watts, Frances Bush, Marey Cullum, Jane Hampton, Mathew Davis, Sarrah Oliver & Nancey Vandiver [Vandeveer] to be equally divided amongst them all. Either by sail [sic] or otherwise as a majority of them may chuse [sic]. Given under my hand and seal this 17 day of May 1816. his Leonard X Davis mark P.S. If my beloved wife Marey Davis should live anytime longer than I do, my will is that she shall have the use of the whole of my estate, both real and personal, during her natural lifetime or widowhood-date as above. his Leonard X Davis mark D. Hampton Claibourn Cox At a court held for Clarke County 25 August 1817 This Last Will and Testament of Leonard David [sic]deceased was produced in open Court and proven according to law by the oaths of David Hampton and Claibourn Cox. Witnesses hereto subscribed an ordered to be recorded. Additional Comments: The will is very hard to read. Blank spaces were words I could not read. I added a few things in the brackets. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/clark/wills/davis95gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/