Clark County KyArchives Wills.....Elkin, Rev. Robert June 19, 1809 ************************************************ 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: Mitzi Allen lew977@yahoo.com October 3, 2009, 1:14 pm Source: Will Book No. 5, Page 153, Winchester, Clark Co., Kentucky Written: June 19, 1809 “In the name of God Amen I Robert Elkin of Clark County and State of Kentucky being in perfect health Sound mine and memory & calling to mind the uncertainty of life do make this my last will and testament revoking all other will or wills heretofore by made and this to be my last will and testament. In the first place my will is that all of my just debts be paid, Secondly I leave to my beloved wife Sarah the plantation whereon I now live and everything pertaining thereunto my horses cattle Sheep and Hogs, with all of my farming utintials for her use and support during her natural life time or Widow Hood and no longer. Thirdly, I will to my son Zachriah Elkin One Hundred and twenty five acres of land on the waters of four mile creek beginning at a sugartree John Bledsoes corner thence N 72 W. 203 poles to a sugar-tree near a red oak marked R. E. thence N 18 E 99 poles to a stake thence south 72 E 202 to a stake in John Bledsoes line & with the same south 18 W. 100 poles to the Beginning, Forthly I will to my son Ezekiel Elkin. One Hundred and Twenty Five Acres of land on the waters of four mile creek Beginning in John Bledsoes line and corner Zachriah Elkin lot & running N 18 E. 100 poles to a walnut Hickory and sugar-tree corner to the said Bledsoe thence N 72 W. 199 poles to a beach. To a Beach and sugar-tree corner to John Stevens Survey thence S 18 W 99 poles to a stake corner to said Zachriah Elkin and with his line S 72 E 202 poles to the Beginning Fifthly my will is that the plantation whereon I now live shall be the property of my son Enoch Elkin at the death of my beloved wife Sarah my cubbord with the cubbord furniture. Sixthly I will to my Daughter Nancy Elkin now Nancy Neil Three Hundred Dollars. Seventhly I will to my Daughter Polly Elkin now Polly Martin Three Hundred Dollars. Eightly I will to my Daughter Milly Elkin Now Milly Haggard three hundred Dollars. Ninthly I will to my daughter Loocy Elkin now Loocy Bundrum three Hundred Dollars. Tenthly I will to my daughter Duley Elkin now Duley Fletcher three Hundred Dollars. I aso will to my Daughter Sarah Elkin Three Hundred Dollars--and in case there should not be a suffiency of my personal estate to give each one of my daughters above named Three Hundred Dollars to each one they are to receive an equal proportion of which there is and if there should be any ballance remaining over and above three Hundred Dollars to each Daughter the ballance to be equally divided between all my sons and Daughters my will also is that in case there should be any of my personal estate over and above what will suffeciently support my beloved wife Sarah that my Executors here after named shall sell the same or to divide it without sale that each one of my Daughters may receive an equal proportion of the same and to charge the same against their Legacies of three hundred Dollars above named and I also will to my beloved wife the use of my Negros during her natural life or widow- hood and at her death to be sold by my Executors here after named and the money ariseing from the sales to be paid to my daughters or so much thereof or to make up to each of my Daughters above named there Legacys of Three Hundred Dollars each and the Overplus if any to be equally divided between all of my sons and Daughters and lastly I constitute and appoint my beloved wife Sarah my son Zachariah Ezekiel and Enoch Elkins my Executors of this my last will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th, day of June 1809. Teste. his D. Hampton. ROBERT X ELKIN (Seal) Mary, Hampton. mark Elizabeth x Hampton. mark” Additional Comments: My Note: The misspellings are kept intact. “Loocy” is Lucy; “Bundrum” is a phonetic misspelling and mis- pronunciation of Bondurant; “utintials” is utensils. Also, Sally (Sarah) Elkin was married to a Reuben Elkin, 12 Dec 1802, by Rob’t Elkin, minister, consent by Sally’s father Robert Elkin--so Elkin is both her maiden and married name. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/clark/wills/elkin436gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/