Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Child, Francis January 10, 1823
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Source: Loose Will, NC Archives CR 073.801
Written: January 10, 1823
Recorded: Apr 1823 (Roane County)
Testator: Francis Child

State of Tennessee
                Be it remembered that at a Court of pleas and
quarter sessions opened and held for the County of Roane
at the Court house in Kingston on the fourth Monday
of April Anno Domini 1823 The following instrument of
writing was produced in Open Court and being proved by
the oaths of Saml. Eskridge & Abigail Johnson who made oath
that the said Francis Child signed sealed published & declared
the said instrument of writing to be his last will and
Testament in their presence and that they believed the
said Child was at the time in his proper sences the said
instrument of writing was ordered to be recorded as the
last Will & Testament of the said Francis Child
Which said Will is in the following word & figures (viz)

"I Francis Child of Orange County and the state of North Carolina
now in Roane County and State of Tennessee do make and ordain
this to be my last Will & Testament.  I give and devise to my
Son Samuel Child and half of my estate both real and
personal of all Kinds and description.  I give and devise
to my wife Martha Child the ballance of my estate both real
and personal of all kinds and description.  I further will
and desire all my just debts to be paid by my executor

    I hereby appoint Simeon Turner of Murray County
executor of this my last will, and do also hereby revoke
and annul all former wills or Testaments by me executed

    In testemony whereof I do hereto set my hand and
affix my seal this 10th day of Jany. 1823

    Attest
Saml Eskridge                      FrsChild (seal)
Abegail Johnston"

        In testimoney that the above last will and
Testament is truly copied from the records of my office
I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed
            my private seal ["not having" x-out] (not
            having an official seal) at office in
            Kingston this 30th August A.D. 1834
                             Henry Breageate Clk
                     By his deputy
                              J.W.M.Breageate
NB The executor named inthe foregoing will has never
qualified (as yet) and taken upon himself the executio
of the same
                             Henry Breageate Clk
                     By his deputy
                              J.W.M.Breageate

Additional Comments:
Roane County, Tennessee, Will Book Volume A, page 188
Recorded Apr 1823 (Roane County)

Not found in Orange County wills.

There is another Jan 1823 Will for a Frances[sic] Child with a son named
Samuel.  Same person?  I don't really know.

Estate Papers comprise 385 pages and are found in a folder labeled "Child, Francis (1793)". There were several estates being settled in the area for people known as Frances or Francis Child at about the 1790-1830 time period. It appears that all of the estate papers were placed in this folder

One tranche of these papers is dated Aug 1792 - 1811 and executed by Frances Child, widow and executrix of Francis Child, the testator above.  The inventory was taken 27 Aug 1792, but did not include slaves.

Another tranche is dated 1824-1827 Administered by James Grant.  It appears that Samuel Child was named Executor, and then James Grant appointed administrator  25 November 1824 after securing a bond of $20,000.
Inventory transcribed below, returned Nov 1824.

For further research into this lineage, it may be best to look in the records of Roane County, Tennessee.

[Estate Papers - Inventory Nov 1824]

An Inventory of the Estate of Francis Child decd.
returnable to Orange County towit, Novr, Term 1824
taken by James Grant Admr.
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Twenty Negroes (viz) Bet and her four children (viz) Leler [Leter?]
Hubbard, Henry, and Jinney, Love and four Children (viz) Mary
Susan, Harry, and Cinthia, Cherry and her four Children (viz)
Hilliard, Willie, Gilley, and Kessiah, Sophey and two children
(viz) Adaline, and Allen, Also Jacob and a boy George

Also one Waggon and Great and four head of Horses

                                    James Grant.