WILL: John Hammonds (1848) - Pulaski Co, KY
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Submitted by Sheila Evans, ElCain@usa.net
Date: 05 Dec 1999
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Surname: Combest, Hammonds, Jasper, Osborn, Rainwater, Weddle, Tarter


John Hammonds - 1848 Copy of Will obtained from PCK Historical Society in 
Somerset, KY.

Written 5th day of January 1848
Proven 21st day of February 1848

I, John Hammonds, of the county of Pulaski State of Kentucky do hereby make 
my last will & Testament in manner & form following that is to say 1st after 
the payment of all my debts I give to my loving wife Margaret Hammonds during 
her natural life or widowhood all my perishable & personal property & my three 
slaves (to wit) Lucinda, Doctor & Anthony & the farm where I now reside with 
all the appurtainances thereunto belonging with the Exception of Ten acres of 
the inclosed (sic) part of ?-- Farm on the end joining a tract of land known 
by the name of the Peter C. Tarter place. 2nd which --?- which ten acres I give 
my son William C. Hammonds to gether with a certain tract containing ten acres 
more or less which was deeded to me from William Weddle & .... ..? Tarter Tract 
to be Injoyed (sic) by him & his heirs forever. 3rd. I give the remaining part 
of the above named farm equal & undivided to my two sons Morgan (? initial) 
Hammonds & John W. Hammonds at the death of my wife herein before named together 
with all the (???blur) and perishable property & appurtainances herein before 
name injoyed by the & their heirs forever after my Dughter Eliza Ann Hammonds 
is made equal with the balance of my daughter herein named & if they cannot 
divide themselves it is to be divided. 4thly, my three slaves herein before 
named I give them their freedom at the year AD 1865 on the proviso that my wife 
herein before named is done with them that is to say that they shall injoy the 
priviledge of freedom in this way that they must be gover..? in their dealings 
& conduct by the insturctions (ink blots) ...by their guardian which I shall 
herein apoint (to wit) my son Josiah W. Hammonds & he is to apply the proceeds 
of their labors to their benefit & see to their wellfare, 5th I give my son 
Thomas Hammonds eighty acres of land lying in the State of Missouri Pike County 
on the waters of ?? River it is known by the Ridge Eighty to be injoyed by him 
& his heirs forever. 6th I give to my daughters Elizabeth Osborn, Polly Osborn, 
Jane Jasper, Margaret Jasper & Patsy Combest, Eliza Ann Hammonds Ten dollars 
each 7th I give to the infant heirs of my daughter Sally Combest (to wit) Sally 
Jane Combest, John Wilie Combest, & Samuel Josiah Combest two Dollars Each, 8th 
My daughter Nancy Combest I give five dollars 9th Eighty acres of Land adjoining 
the eighty herein before named & in the County & State herin before named I will 
to be sold & the proceeds of the sale to be injoyed by my wife hereinbefore named 
at her disposal. 10th I give to my son Josiah W. Hammonds five Dollars 11th & 
lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my wife herein before named & my son Jos. 
W. Hammonds herein before named Executors of this my last wil & Testament & 
Impower them hereby to make a Deed to Jno (?) M. Weddle to a certain tract of 
land 18 acres more or less which I have sold to said Weddle they not being 
allowed any thing for their services, hereby revoking all other or former wills 
or testament by me here tofore made in witness whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand & affixed my seal. (signed) John Hammonds (seal) this 5th day of January 1848.

//in the presents of James Weddle , William Rainwater.

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