DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN - WILLS - William Thompson, 24 Aug 1836 ----¤¤¤---- Per info on microfilm at TSLA. Probated and recorded October 1836. Will Book. Pages 66 & 67. The last testament of William Thompson of Davidson County and State of Tennessee who being weak in body but sound in mind and memory declare this to be my last will and testament hereby revoking all others. I commend my frail body to the dust from which it was made and my spirit to the God who gave it in hopes of a glorious immortality when they shall be again united. I wish my body deposited in the family burying ground in a manner suitable to my condition in life and all of my just and lawful debts paid as soon as my executor shall find it convenient. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Wm. P. Thompson a piece or parcel of land on the west end of the tract where I now live and bounded as follows: Beginning near the tanyard on the Branch of the north boundry of my said tract and running with said branch south so as to include water on both sides to a white oak in the field on the west side of the Branch thence south with said Branch including water on both sides to the head of said branch to a hollow. Thence south with said hollow until it intersects Enoch Ensley line thence west with said Ensley's line to a spanish oak on Catron's line thence north to a poplar thence east to the beginning be the same more or less including the tanyard together with all of its contents. I give unto my son Dela F. Thompson the balance of the tract of land where I now live being east of the before described land. But it is my will and desire that the land given to my son Dela F. shall be valued by three disinterested person and that the tract of land purchased of James Whitesides shall be valued also that belonging to my son John and my son D. F. is to pay John the difference in the prices, as it is my intention that each of them shall be equally interested in both tracts of land. But if my said sons John W. & D. F. shall prefer dividing the land I give them the privilege of doing so But with neither to have an advantage over the other. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Mary Catherine and Susan Margaret Thompson four nego to wit, Sophia, Harriett, Henry and Stephen to be put in two lots and drawn for by themselves. But should either of said negro die before a division of my estate takes place they are to have another of equal value. It is my wish that the balance of negros not particulary specified shall be equally divided between the whole of my children, viz William P., John W., Dela F., Mary C., and Susan Thompson. It is my will that each of my four youngest children shall have a horse worth sixty or seventy dollars. It is my will and devise that the remainder of my property including stock of all descriptions shall be sold and the proceeeds thereof equally divided between the whole of my children as well as all monies due me either in notes or accounts except a claim I have against Joseph Litton if ever collected I wish equally divided between my two daughters Mary C and Susan M. Thompson and finally it is my will and devise that my friend and neighbor Ech(?) Pattison (Patterson?) and my son John W. Thompson shall qualify as my executors to this my last will and testament: Signed this 24th day of August in the year of our Lord 1836 William Thompson Thomas Moss Robert Brown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: cupido@cchat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------