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Will of Alexander B. Preast (Preece)
Martin County, Kentucky, 1873

In the name of God amen the eighteenth Day of February in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy three.  I Alexander B. Preast resident 
of Rockasal creek in the county of Martin State of Kentucky being through the 
blessing of God in a Sound State of mind and memory but calling to mind the 
frale tenure of life and that it is appointed to all men once to die do make 
and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say first of all I 
recommend my sole to the Almighty God who gave it and the disposal of my body I 
leave with the discretion of my friends with respect to my worldlly estate I 
give and bequeath and dispose of in the names following first I give and 
bequeath to my two sons Cornelious W. and Henry H. Preast my home farm
according to divisions that they have bequest on between themselves by them
paying fifty dollars each to my three daughters Elisabeth Smith, Mary Fletcher
& Susanah Bond, and ten dollars Each to the five Heirs of William Preast making
fifty dollars to said heirs payable as they arrive to maturity and the fifty
dollars each of my three daughters named above is to be paid in property on or
before the 25th Day of December 1873 all the above named in equal proportions.


Witness my hand this Day of February 1873
                                          his
Signed and proclaimed        Alexander B.  X  Preast
In the presence of                        mark    

T. W. Newberry

       his
Thomas  X  Step
       Mark

         his
Thomas J. X Fletcher
         Mark

                                                                                                 
State of Kentucky
                                                                                                  
County of Martin} Sct
                                                                                                      
C. Kirk Clerk of the 
Martin County Court do Certify that this will and testament of Alexander B. 
Preast.deceased was this day produced in open Court and proven by the oathe of 
Thomas Stepp and T. W. Nuberry to be the act and deed of the said Alexander B. 
Preast and the Same having been ordered to be recorded has this Day been 
admitted to record by me in my Said affidavit.
   
  Given under my hand this 13th of July 1873 CMCC


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