WILLS: GISH, Christian II, 1814, Muhlenberg Co Submitted by: tamara1k@evansville.net (Tamara Kincade) Christian Gish II b.Abt 1756 Lancaster Co Pa d.Oct 1814 Muhlenberg Co, Kentucky. He was the son of Christian Gish and Sophia Hock. He married Elizabeth Barbary Stintz, b. abt 1765 in Lebanon, Pa. D. abt 1820, Muhlenberg Co, Ky. Christian II Gish Killed when a team of horses hitched to a wagon bolted. CHRISTIAN GISH WILL IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I CHRISTIAN GISH OF THE COUNTY OF MUHLENBERG AND THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, BEING OF SOUND MIND AND MEMORY AND UNDERSTANDING, BUT CONSIDERING THE UNCERTAINTY OF THIS LIFE THINK FIT TO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER, TO WIT AS TOUCHING MY WORLDLY ESTATE, IT IS MY WILL AND DESIRE THAT ALL MY DEBTS BE FAITHFULLY PAID. FIRST, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED WIFE BARBARY GISH, MY PLANTATION THAT I KNOW LIVE ON WITH ALL MY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY, UNTIL MY SON DAVID GISH BECOMES OF AGE AND AFTER SAID DAVID IS OF AGE SHE IS TO HAVE THE DWELLING HOUSE, GARDENS AND ALL THE CLEARED LAND JOINING OR LAYING ON THE SAME SIDE OF MY PLANTATION. THE GARDEN IS OF AND FOR HER LIFETIME, LIKEWISE ALL THE STOCK OF HORSES, HOGS CATTLE, SHEEP BE USED AS HER OWN RIGHT AND PROPERTY TO GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO WHOM SHE WILL, AND IF SHE THINKS FIT SHE MAY SELL THE HORSE MILL OR ANY OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND THE MONEY ARISING THEREFROM FOR HER OWN USE, LIKEWISE ALL MONIES DUE TO THE ESTATE BY BOND OR ACCOUNT IS HER OWN USE DURING HER LIFETIME AND AFTER HE DECEASED IF ANY THING LEFT TO BE SOLD AND THEREFROM BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY HEIRS ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY RECIEVED FROM ME IN MY LIFETIME. SECONDLY, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO TO MY SON CHRISTIAN GISH ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES OF LAND, FIFTY ACRES OF SAID LAND HE HAS PAID ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS FOR, WHICH IS THE LAND HE NOW LIVES ON AND BOUNDED OR WAS RUN BY CHARLES MORGAN. THIRDLY, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH FRANCES ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES OF LAND, ON CONDITION OF HER PAYING UNTO MY ESTATE ONE HUNDRED AND AND TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS IT BEING THE PRICE OF FIFTY ACRES OF LAND, MONEY TO BE PAID ON OR BEFORE THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE 1810 BEARING INTEREST FROM THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE 1808 UNTIL PAID WHICH IS LAND SHE AND HER HUSBAND NOW LIVE ON AND BOUNDED OR RUN BY CHARLES MORGAN. FOURTHLY, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY SON JOHN GISH ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES OF LAND ON CONDITION OF PAYING TO MY ESTATE FOURTY SIX DOLLARS IT BEING THE BALANCE OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS WHAT HE IS PAY FOR FIFTY ACRES OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED LAND, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY OF LAND WHICH HE HAS IMPROVED AND BOUNDED OR RUN BY CHARLES MORGAN AND THE ALTERATION THAT WAS MADE BY JOHN MORGAN PAYMENT TO BE MADE ON OR BEFORE THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE IN THE YEAR 1810, BEARING INTEREST FROM THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE 1808 UNTIL PAID. THEN FIFTH, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON SAMUEL GISH 150 ACRES OF LAND ON CONDITION OF HIS PAYING TO MY ESTATE 81 $ DOLLARS IT BEING THE BALANCE OF 125 $ DOLLARS WHICH HE IS TO PAY FOR FIFTY ACRES OF ABOVE MENTIONED LAND, 150 ACRES OF SAID LAND WHICH BOUNDS ON THE LINE OF CHRISTAIN GISH JR. AND JACOB NOFSINGER AND BOUNDED OR RUN BY JOHN MORGAN PAYMENT TO BE MADE ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE 1809, I ALSO GIVE HIM A CERTAIN BAY MARE AND COLT THAT HE HAS IN POSSESION FOR SOME TIME KNOWN BY THE NAME OF SAMUEL GISH'S MARE. SIXTHLY , I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON JOSEPH GISH ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES OF LAND ON CONDITION OF HIS PAYING UNTO MY ESTATE 83$ DOLLARS, AND ONE THIRD OF IT BEING THE WHOLE AMOUNT OF WHICH HE IS TO PAY FOR FIFTY ACRES OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED LAND 150 OF LAND, PAYMENT TO BE MADE ON OR BEFORE THE 20TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1811 BEARING INTEREST WHEN DUE UNTIL PAID, THE ABOVE MENTIONED LAND BINDS WITH JAMES BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN NOFFSINGER AND BOUNDED OR WAS RUN BY BENJAMIN JOHNSTON. SEVENTHLY, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON GEORGE GISH 150 ACRES OF LAND ON CONDITION OF HIS PAYING TO MY ESTATE 83 $ DOLLARS AND ONE THIRD OF IT BEING THE WHOLE OF WHAT HE IS TO PAY FOR FIFTY ACRES OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED 150 ACRES, PAYMENT TO BE MADE ON OR BEFORE 20TH DAY OF JUNE 1812 BEARING INTEREST WHEN DUE UNTIL PAID, THE SAID 150 ACRES OF LAND BINDS ON JOHN LANDERS, JOHN NOFFSINGER AND JAMES BRECKENRIDGE AND IS BOUNDED OR WAS RUN BY BENJAMIN JOHNSTON. EIGHTHLY, I GIVE UNTO MY SON DAVID GISH 150 ACRES OF LAND I NOW LIVE ON ON CONDITION OF HIS PAYING UNTO MY EXECUTORS 40 POUNDS IN THE TERM OF FIVE YEARS AFTER HE BECOMES OF AGE ,THE FIRST YEAR HE IS TO PAY NOTHING EACH OTHER YEAR HE IS TO PAY 10 POUNDS PER YEAR UNTIL PAID LIKEWISE SAID DAVID GISH IS TO FIND FIREWOOD FOR HIS MOTHER DURING HER LIFETIME OR WIDOWHOOD. NINTHLY, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY DAUGHTER SALLY GISH 120 ACRES OF LAND MORE OR LESS WITHOUT THE ESTATE MAKING DEMAND AGAINST SAID SALLY GISH IN ANY WAYS,THE SAID 120 ACRES OF ABOVE MENTIONED LAND LIES BINDING ON JACOB NOFFSINGER, JAMES BRECKENRIDGE OUTSIDE SOUTH LINE, LIKEWISE SHE IS TO HAVE THE TITLE FOR SAID LAND WHEN SHE IS OF AGE WITH AND EQUAL PART OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. TENTHLY, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON ABRAHAM GISH 125 ACRES OF LAND BINDING ON SAMUEL GISH AND JACOB NOFFSINGER AND A CLEAR TITLE TO BE MADE TO THE SAID ABRAHAM GISH WHEN HE BECOMES OF AGE BY MY EXECUTORS WITH AN EQUAL PART OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY. I LIKEWISE CONSTITUTE MAKE AND ORDAIN MY BELOVED FRIENDS JOHN NOFFSINGER, JOHN GISH THE SOLE EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, I DO HEARBY UTTERLY DISALLOW, REVOKE AND DISANNUL ALL AND EVERY FORMER TESTAMENT AND WILL,LEGACIES,BEQUEATHS, AND EXECUTORS BY ME IN ANY WAYS BEFORE NAMED, WILLED AND BEQUEATHED RATIFYING AND CONFIRMING THIS AND NO OTHER TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, INVESTING MY EXECUTORS WITH SOLE POWER OF MAKING TITLES TO THE RESPECTING LANDS WHEN THEY ARE CONFORMABLE TO THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, OR BECOME OF AGE TO THOSE THAT OWE THE ESTATE, IN WITNESS HEREOF I HEREUNTO SAT MY HAND AND SEAL THIS TWENTITH DAY OF JUNE 1812. SIGNED SEALED DELIVERED BY ME CHRISTIAN GISH AS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF US, JAMES LANDIS, JAMES WALKER FREDERICK HAYNES SEALED HIS MARK CHRISTIAN GISH RECORDED OCTOBER 1814 WILL BOOK K PAGE 211-2-3-4-5-6. 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