WILL: MARTIN, Hartwell, 1825

Contributed by Jeremy Johnson
January, 2002
jeremiahbj@juno.com

Green County Will Book 2
Page 114-115

I Hartwell Martin a citizen of the County of Green and State of 
Kentucky being in perfect health and of sound mind and calling to 
mind the mortality of the body knowing that it is appointed for men 
once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament 
ratifying this and no others.

Item first I give unto my beloved wife Nancy Martin the farm on 
which I now live, with all the improvements theron during her 
natuaral lifetime and at her decease to be equally divided between 
my sons Martin Martin and Hartwell Martin.

Item 2nd I give unto my daughter Jincy Skaggs thirty seven dollars 
in such movable property as I may have in posession at my death to 
be valued by two disinterested person one of which is to be chosen 
by my wife Nancy Martin the other to be chosen by said Nabur, the 
above named $37 is given to the aforesaid Jincy Skaggs to make her 
equal part of my estate the same that I have heretofore given to my 
daughters Sally Scott, Polly Hash, July Philpott, Betsy Nance for I 
have heretofore given each of them sixty dollars.  I have also given
to my son Henry Martin sixty dollars, and do seriously believe each 
of the aforesaid children have received more than will fall to the 
share of the remainder of my children.

Item 3rd the whole of my personal estate at my decease is to remain 
in the hands of my wife Nancy Martin, and by her to be safely kept 
together for her use until my sons marries, the one then marrying is
to have one third part of said personal estate, the ballance to be 
reserved until the marriage of the other, at which time he is to 
have a third part, the remaining third part to be enjoyed by my said
wife Nancy Martin her lifetime, at her decease to be equally divided
 between my sons Martin Martin and Hartwell Martin.

Item 4th I give to my son William Martin thirty acres of land where 
he now lives to be laid off on the west side of my plantation along 
(unlegible) line so as to include the improvements where said 
William Martin now lives, and should he wish to sell and remove he 
is to let my sons Hartwell Martin and Martin have the refusal of 
said land and to sell to no other person if they wish to purchase, 

In testimony Whereof I have set my hand this 31st day of January 1821.

Hartwell Martin

Witness:
William Sympson
Jeremiah (his X mark) McFarlin

At a County Court held for Green County at the Courthouse in 
Greenburg on the 17th day of January 1825
	This last will and testament of Hartwell Martin deceased was
produced in court by Nancy Martin and proven by the oath of William 
Sympson one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be 
certified and at a court held for Green County at the Courthouse on 
the 18th day of April 1825 the same was fully proven by the oath of 
Jeremiah McFarlin another subscribing witness thereto to have been 
signed sealed and published as the last will and testament of the 
said Martin, and at the time of signing the same they believed him 
to be in his perfect mind and memory and the same is ordered to be 
recorded which is done.

Test, John Barrett, Clerk

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