WILL: Charles Skaggs, 1815 Green Co., KY Will CHARLES SKAGGS WILL 9 FEBRUARY 1815 GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY Will Book 1 pp. 137-139 In the Name of god amen, I CHARLES SKAGGS Citizen of Green County, Kentucky considering the Mortality of human Nature and that it was appointed for all men once to die and after committing my body to the ground and my soul to god who gave it, I make and constitute this instrument of writing whereunto my name is subscribed to be my last will and testament, revoking all others. In primis, all my debts of which there is but few, and none of Magnitude, are to be paid, and then whatever there remains I will and bequeath in the following manner that is to say first my wish and desire is that my beloved wife LUCY SKAGGS shall have the use and profit of my whole estate Real and personal during her Natural life except such parts as I shall hereafter mention, that is to say the part of the land and plantation whereon I now live, and whereon my son MOSES SKAGGS Now lives, on the South side of the branch for him to have the use and benefit of that previous to the decease of his Mother, and at her decease to have the hold of the land the reason of my doing this is because he paid a greater part of the price that we gave for the land, though the deed was made to me. And at the decease of my wife; my desire is to have the whole of the land. Item first I will and bequeath to my beloved son ARCHIBALD SKAGGS a negro girl called SuSanna. Item I will and bequeath to my beloved daughter RACHEL BLEVEN'S heirs one dollar. Item to my beloved daughter NANCY MEREDITH an equal part part of my estate except such parts as I have before mentioned and shall hereafter mention. Item I will and bequeath, to my beloved son FREDERICK SKAGGS I will and bequeath to him his equal part, among the other Children except such parts as is before and hereafter shall be mentioned. Item to my beloved daughter POLLY GRAY I will and bequeath to her heirs one dollar. Item to my beloved daughter SALLY ROBERTSON, I will and bequeath an equal part with the others except the parts before and hereafter will be mentioned. Item to my beloved son THOMAS SKAGGS I will and bequeath my Negro boy called Bob and an equal part with the other Children of the property before mentioned and my said son THOMAS SKAGGS I will to be the executor to my whole estate. Item to my beloved son MOSES SKAGGS I will bequeath my Negro man called Sepio and a rifle gun called Sepios gun together with a equal part of the property not mentioned. Item to TEMPY BELCHER, wife to BERRY BELCHER I will and bequeath to her a filly called the reggie muffin to be hers immediately after my death. Item to NATHAN BLEVIN I will and bequeath two [word crossed out] colts, one called Jolly and the other Tody. In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of February in the year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. CHARLES SKAGGS Tetes JAMES AKIN CHARLES BLEVINS CHARETY HOWEL WM. G. OWENS ZACHERIAH NANCE At a County Court, held for Green County at the Courthouse in Greensburgh on the 22nd day of January 1816. The within will of CHARLES SKAGGS Dec'd was produced in Court and proven by the oath of WILLIAM G. OWENS, ZACHERIAH NANCE and NATHANIEL OWENS subscribing witnesses to said will, and that they believed him at the time of executing the same to be in his perfect mind and memory and the same was ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly. Given under my hand this 28th day of March 1816. JOHN BARRET, cfc Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Jemima Gee Morse morse@shentel.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ***********************************************************************