Carter-Sullivan-Washington County TN Archives Wills.....Hart, Leonard February 7, 1849 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Ann Jett Wheeler jettstream@comcast.net June 26, 2012, 3:08 pm Source: Tennessee Records Of Carter County, Wills & Inventories 1794-1847, P. 24 Wpa Historical Records Project # 465-44-3-115 Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville Written: February 7, 1849 WILL OF LEONARD HART "(p 118) State of Tennessee February Term 1852 Carter County Court Clerks Office then was the last Will and Testament exhibited and proven in Open Court by Isaac P. Tipton, Peter W. Emmert, the attesting witnesses thereto and orderd to be registered which is in words and figures as following: I Lenard Hart of sound and perfect mind and memory I do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following: First I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Phebe Heart the following described property (towit) All my cupboard ware, one bureau and kitchen cubbord two small cooking pots, one large oven and lid one deep skillet, one pot tramed one fire shovel one small dressing table two feather beds steads and clothing thereto belonging to include a double wave coverlid [coverlet], two cows, one of which after the death of my wife to be sold and the proceeds be divided amongst my several children together with the following property My will is this should be sold at my death and the proceeds divided as above stated (towit) one feather bed, bedstead, and clothing for the same to include one double woven coverlid [coverlet], one clock, one coner [corner] cubbard all my shop tools such as are used for turning, one cross cut saw and one hand saw, two turnout saws two Ironing plains [planes] together with two beading plains [planes] two sets and irons [andirons] one anvile [anvil] and vice [vise] one sledge hammer and hand hammer, one pair of tongues [tongs] all to be sold at my death and the proceeds to be divided among my several children, My wife Phebe Hart is not to be disturbed but to have peaceable possession of the dwelling house and all the furniture both in house and kitchen during her life time but at her death or her removal from said residence then the said furniture not herein bequeathed to her is to be sold and the proceeds applied as here before stated. I do give and bequeath to my sons Solomon Hart and Abraham Heart, the track of land on which they now live lying in Carter County State of Tennessee District No. 8, joining the lands of W. M. Bishop, Peter W. Emmert and thus containing by estimation two hundred acres more ore less to be equally divided between them, but I require of Solomon Hart and Abraham Hart the maintainance of me and my wife Phebe during our lives to consent of two hundred pounds of Pork, thirty bushels of wheath and one hundred and ten bushels of corn annually, but at the death of one of us then they are required to pay one half of the above sum during the life time of the other and further at my death they (p 119) are required to bury me in a decent manner and further more my will is that my son Solomon Hart and Abraham Hart jointly and severally pay to my daughter Susanna Hendirx wife of William Hendirx to my daughter Polly Nicholes, wife of John Nicholes each the sum of one hundred twenty five dollars in good trade within three years after my death also to William Hart my grand son the sum of one hundred dollars to my daughter Fern Combs wife of Jonathan Combs the sum of twenty-five dollars to my dauther Sarah Mothon wife of John Mothon the sum of twenty dollars all of which payments to be made within three years after my death in good trade also to my daughter, Elizabeth Crow wife of Isaac L. Crow, the sum of fifteen dollars in cash to be paid as soon as they can or in a reasonable time and Lastly to this end I constitute and appoint Henory Little my sole Executor of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made in witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal this 7th, day of February 1849. his Leonard (X) Hart mark Proved and examined in our presence this the 7th, February 1849 – By J. L. Tipton & P. W. Emmert" Additional Comments: Copied verbatim with a few bracketed explanations of certain items mentioned in the bequests. Leonard Hart was an early settler of Carter County and veteran of the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/carter/wills/hart45wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/tnfiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb