KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 30 March 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 141 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:08:49 -0700 From: H &J Clifford Subject: WILL: Charles Robinson, Fayette Co 1847 Charles ROBINSON Will, written 19 July 1847, Probated 12 August 1847 Fayette County Will Book R Page 337-339 In the name of God, Amen! I Charles Robinson of the County of Fayette and State of Kentucky being of sound mind & memory but I fear in declining health, & knowing that it is appointed for all men to die, I do now make ordain & declare this Instrument of Writing written on one sheet of paper to be to all intents & purposes, my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking & making both null and void, all other Wills heretofore made by me, or promised to be made by me First, It is my will and desire that my remains after death shall be placed in a plain cloth covered coffin, & it deposited in a plank box, & that I be buried in the family burying ground of the late Byrd Price situated on the farm now owned by my friend and neighbor Beverly A. Hicks Second I desire that after my death that every just debt that I may owe at my decease, shall be paid by my Executors hereinafter named and appointed & paid by them out of my estate in any way to raise money that their wisdom and justice shall direct Third I hereby constitute and appoint my sons Mortimer Robinson, Gardner P. Robinson, & my sons in law James J. Fleming of the State of Missouri & Dr. George Harrison the husband of my daughter Catherine Harrison, to be the Executors of this my last Will & Testament, and I do not wish the County Court of Fayette County to require any security of my said Executors for this performance as such because I have full confidence in them, that they will carry my wishes herein expressed fully out Fourth. It is my wish and desire that my beloved wife Priscilla Robinson shall receive of my estate in fee simple in lieu or[in] place of her dower in my Estate the following named sum of money, furniture, property & slaves, seven slaves in number all of which money furniture property & slaves will be named in this fourth item of my will which if she accepts in lieu or [in] place of her dower in my estate & I trust she will so accept, shall all be her own estate & to be used & disposed of by her my said beloved wife Priscilla Robinson at any time & in any way whatever that she may please to use & dispose of the same to wit. The sum of One thousand dollars cash to be paid to her by my Executors after my decease & out of the first money that can be out of the sale of any of my Estate, my piano, the bed bedstead & all of the furniture thereto belonging on which she and I sleep, the bureau that stands in our bedroom the press used for pressing etc that stands in the same room, one washstand & one pitcher & one wash bowl one large fine rocking chair & one wardrobe all the right title and interest I have hold or own to a house & lot, some slaves, the household & kitchen furniture now held & used by my mother-in-law Susan Fleming by written contract between her the said Susan Fleming & her children in the City of Lexington likewise all my right title and interest in & to a house & lot in Water Street in the city of Lexington now held by my aforesaid mother-in-law Susan Fleming likewise my beloved wife Priscilla Robinson shall receive my negro woman called Eliza & her three boy children to wit: Thomas Ferrell and Milton, my negro woman named Roda, my negro man named Davy & my negro boy named Henry being the seven slaves alluded to in the beginning part of this item of my Will. Fifth, all the rest or balance of my Estate not named & disposed of in this Instrument of Writing, both real and personal & mixed be the same what it may, I will and direct that the same shall be divided into four equal parts by my Executors, either by sale or otherwise as they may deem most advantageous to my estate, to themselves & their families, and divided as follows to wit: one part, or fourth of which, I give to my son Mortimer Robinson, one part or fourth of which, I give to my son Gardner P. Robinson; one part or fourth of which, I give to my daughter Mildred Fleming, the Wife of James Fleming, & at her death to go to her children; and last part, or one fourth of which, I give to my daughter Catherine Harrison, the Wife of Dr. George Harrison, & at her death to go to her children. In Testimony whereof, I Charles Robinson, have this the nineteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty seven, set my own hand and seal Signed sealed & acknowledged Charles Robinson seal in presence of Richard Downing Thos Christian Beverly A. Hicks Fayette County to wit: August Called Court 1847 At a Called County Court held for the County aforesaid on the 12th day of August 1847, the foregoing Instrument of Writing, purporting to be the last Will & Testament of Charles Robinson deceased, was produced in Open Court and proved by the oaths of Richard Downing and Thomas Christian two of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. Whereupon the same hath been duly recorded in my office Att James A. Grinstead c.f.c.c. By Wm R. Bradford D.C. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:02:53 EST From: BLTDEFORD@aol.com Subject: DEED: Legal Document re Martin Stucky deceased, Abraham Bruner & Fanny et al, Jefferson Co The Commonwealth of Kentucky, to the Sheriff of Jefferson County, greetings: We command you to Summon Wendle Miller in his own right, George Zillhart and said Wendle Miller & Nancy his wife who was Nancy Stucky, Samuel Stucky, George Stucky, Emanuel Stucky, Abraham Bruner and Fanny his wife who was Fanny Stucky, John Reele and Catherine his wife who was Catherine Stucky, Polly Stucky, Martin Stucky, the last eleven of whom are children of Martin Stucky, decd. to appear before the judge of our Circuit Court for Jefferson Circuit at the Court House in Louisville, on the first day of our next January term, to answer a bill in Chancery in our said Court exhibited against them by William Field and Alexander Pope late merchants and co partners doing business under the name & style of William field & Co. and this they shall nowise omit under penalty of one hundred pounds, and have then there this writ, Witness, Worden Pope, Clerk of our said Court at the Court House aforesaid the 15 day of December 1823 in the 32nd year of the Commonwealth. 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