Washington County KyArchives Wills.....McDonald, Richard March 1, 1813 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patricia O'Connor p-oconnor@att. net November 27, 2006, 1:03 pm Source: Washington Co. Ky Will Bk B, P 233 - 235 Written: March 1, 1813 Recorded: March 8, 1813 Transcription: Richard McDONALD Estate ________________________ Court of Washington County to us ______________ of the Estate of Richard McDONALD dec'd & also to ____ & set apart the widows dower hath proceeded as follows _______first _____ 1810 March 11 To cash paid Loine ROBERTSON on proven rect 0.15._ May 2 To do do Edward HEAD on making coffin 2.8._ 15 To do do Rebeckah LOVEL on proven rect 1.14.6 July 9 To do do Elias DAVIDSON on testes 3.9._ 14 To do do James CULL (?) on proven rect 0.19.4 14 To do do James LONG Decd on do 0.7.0 Augt 1 To do do Robert SCHOOLING on do 0.18._ Sept 6 To do do William SHORT on do 1.7.6 10 To do do E. B. GATHER on do 8.16.3 15 To do do William INGRAM on do 4.10.0 15 To do do Cornelius SHOEMAKER on do 1.1.0 Oct 17 To do do Commissioners for dividing land between the ____ and J. McKITRICK 0.18.0 20 To do do County survey on ____ & divide 1.15.4 Nov 9 To do do Clerk of ____ for copy of records 1.4.0 15 To do do Mary LEWIS on proven acct 1.13.9 1811 Jan 12 To do do Abner BASSET on do 0.6.0 Feby 9 To do do William INGRAM on do 10.4.0 May 25 To do do William LOYED for crying the sale 0.12.0 25 To do do William PETERS on Settlement 0.19.0 June 21 To do do Jeremiah TAYLOR on proven acct 2.5.0 July 17 To do do William TAYLOR, Senr on do 8.2.0 Augt 7 To do do William ROGERS on do 1.10.3 12 To do do George DAVIS on do 0.7.9 Nov 23 To do do James HEAD on do 11.3.9 30 To do do Martin H. & N. WICKLIFF on do 3.19.6 1812 Mar 10 To do do John McKITTRICK on do 8.10.0 Sept 15 To do do Joseph McDONALD on do 6.13.1 1813 Feby 18 To do do Lazarus PEARCE (?) for schooling the heirs of decd 5.14.10 To do do for books and papers for said heirs 0.12.9 20 To do do James WILLIAMS for surveying& laying 2.2.0 of the widow dower To do do for carrying the chain 0.9.0 25 To do do three commissioners for their services 3.12.0 1809 June 17 To do do James SCHOOLING for proven acct 2.0.6 17 To do do Samuel LEWIS for qualifying the appraisors to sd Estate 0.3.0 To do do William NOWEL [NOEL] for services 0.15._ To do do for four years taxes of sd Estate 4.12._ To do do for sundry fee bills against Estate 9.10._ To a credit given the widow on purchase at the sale of said Estate for a part of her dower _______ of the slaves (the _________________ _.__._ To the widows thirds of the personal Estate _.__.__ By the whole amount of sale there of the slaves three years 263.10_ By Cash due at the death of sd decedant 0.1.1 We return the aforesaid as a true report of the settlement of the administration of the Estate of Richard McDONALD decd with a reference to the plat and Certificate from the Surveyor as to the widows dower given under our hands this 1st day of March 1813 William NOEL Philip MORGAN Samuel LOWE [At this point there is a diagram of the land and divisions] The letter A Represents the beginning borders of the first Survey of the Estate of Richard McDONALD deceased, nubers laid round form 2 to 11 containing 407 ¼ acres The letters B C D E Represents the lines of the second survey of said deceased McDONALD containing 400 acres of which 009 are clear of interf________ The figure 4 a Stake at the head of a draw on the Division between the land of Alexander McDONALD and the aforesaid deceased Represents the beginning corner of the Dower of _____________________________ ___________ poles to a stake at d thence S 70o E 20 poles to a stake at a _____________ 424 poles to a stake at f, thence S 84o E 24 poles to a stake at g near the corner of a fence, thence with the same South 139 poles to a stake at h, thence west 166 poles to 7 a Beech and Sugar tree ____ WALTONS line, variation 8 degrees, S 17o E 138 poles to the forks of Mays Creek at 6 thence up the right hand fork of the same N 80o E 32 poles to an Ironweed and sugar tree at the mouth of a draw at 5, thence up the same N 15o E 66 poles to the Begginning containing one hundred and forty five and an half acres, including the Dwelling House, Barn, Orchards and twenty seven acres and an half of Cleared land February 20th 1813 Samuel WILLIAMS At a County Court held for Washington County on Monday the 8th day of March 1813. The Within Settlement of the account of the Administration of the Estate of Richard McDONALD decd together with the allotment of Dower thereto annexed was _______ and Ordered to be recorded John REED CWC Transcribed by Patricia O'Connor p-oconnor@att.net File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/washington/wills/mcdonald331gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/