DICKSON COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Reaves Adams August 21st 1817
			     proven January Term 1818 
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Dickson County Archives
From Dickson Couty, TN. Will Book A p.28,29
and Loose Documents


Reves 
Adams
No.18

In the name of God Amen. I Reaves Adams of the County
of Dickson in the State of Tennessee being weak in body
but of sound sense mind and memory at this time,
yet knowing, the uncertainty of this earthly life and,
that is appointed for man to die and after death
to judgment do make this my last Will and Testa=
=ment in manner and form following.
First I commend my Soul to Almighty God that
gave it and by the merits of Jesus Christ I trust
and believe to be saved, and my body to be bur=
=ried in such descent and Christianlike manner
as my Executor hereafter named shall think proper
And as for my temporal estate and whatsoever else God
hath been pleased to bestow on me I give and
bequeath as follows.
My Will and desire is that all my just debts shall
be paid and my funeral expenses discharged.
Also my Will is that my loving Wife Sarah Adams
as soon as she shall find it convenient sell the 
land on which we now live and make a deed 
to the same, and the money arrising from the 
sale of the land with the addition of two hundred
and fifty dollars to be collected and made out
of my personal estate, that is not otherwise appropri=
=ated and more if my Wife deems it necessary
be applied to the payment of a tract of land, which
she is hereby authorized to purchase which tract
of land so purchased is to be and to remain to
her during her natural life and at her decease
the said tract of land to be sold and the money
arrising therefrom to be equally divided between
all my children.
Item. I give and bequeath to my loving Wife during
her natural life a Negro girl named Mary and
at my Wifes decease if my son Howell Caller
Adams is twenty years of age that then the 

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said negro Mary and all her increase be sold to the highest bidder
on twelve months credit and all the moneys arrising therefrom
to be equally divided between all my Children, to wit. Cinthy
Adams, Zillah Adams, Sarah Adams, Benjamin Johnson
Adams, William Adams, Thomas Adams and Howell Coll=
=ier Adams to be to them their heirs and assigns forever
and the same measure to take place with the monies ar=
=rising from the sale of the land and all the remaining
part of my estate of every kind I give and bequeath
to my loving wife to raise and School my children an
to give them as they marry or come of age as she can
spare of think proper, and at her decease to be disposed of
between my children share and share alike to be to them
and their heirs and assigns forever, provided she remains
a widow and should she marry I assign her, the fourth
part of the last mentioned property and the remaining
three fourths to be equally divided between my children.
Lastly, I constitute and appoint my loving wife Sarah Adams
whole and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Tes=
=tament revoking and making void all will or wills by
me formerly made, provisioning abd declaring this to be
my last will and Testament in the presence of the 
subscribing witnesses. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand seal the twenty first day of August An=
=no dommini 1817.
John Humphries                 Reves Adams {Seal}
John Davidson
John Luke

State of Tennnessee } January Pleas & Quarter Sessions 1818
Dickson County      } This day was proven in Open Court the
last Will and Testament of Reves Adams deceased by the
oaths of John Humphreys and John Davidson which
was ordered to be recorded and certified accordingly.
                               Field Farrar Clerk

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