Jefferson County TN Archives Wills.....Todd, Low November 21, 1792
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Source: Microfilm Roll#35 Jefferson Co., Tennessee Probate Records ( County Or Chancery Court) Wills Vol 1-2 Apr 1792 - Dec 1826
Written: November 21, 1792

pg 13

                   Low Todd

In the name of God Amen I Low Todd Senior of the County of Jefferson being 

weak in body but of prfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality 

of my body and knowing that os appointed for all men Once to die do make and 

Ordain this my last will and testament in the manner and form following VIZ 

Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul to God who gave it, 

and my body to be burried in a decent manner at the discretion of my 

executors. And as to such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me 

with in this life I give and devise in the following manner VIZ To my beloved 

wife Elizabeth Todd I give and bequeath all my household furniture together 

with my dwelling house during the term of her natural life I also devise to 

her all my stock except such as is herein otherwise disposed of. Item to my 

two sons Low and Samuel I give and devise the land I now live on to them and 

their heirs forever together with all my plantation tools and implements of 

husbandry.

Item to Mary Todd my daughter I give and bequeath Fifty Bushels of Corn 

annually to be paid to her by my sons Low Todd and Samuel Todd so long as she 

continues single. Item to Agnes Davis I give and bequeath one Breeding Sow and 

one two year old Heifer Item I give and bequeath to Young Low Blackstone the 

sum of twenty pounds to be paid to him in land or specifick property as soon 

as he arrives at the age of twenty one.

To my two sons James Todd & John Todd I give and bequeath one shilling to each 

of them.

To my two daughters Jenny Harrison & Elizabeth Blackstone I give and bequeath 

one shilling to each of them.

I do constitute and appoint my son Low Todd to make and execute a Deed of 

Conveyance to Samuel Rodgers for the land I sold in Virginia, and to collect 

all my just debts, which debts I will to be equally divided between my two 

sons Low Todd

pg 14

 Samuel Todd and my wife Elizabeth Todd and my daughter Mary Todd. And I 

constitute and appoint my wife Elizabeth Todd and my son Low Todd Executors of 

this my last will and testament, revoking all other wills by me made. In 

testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal this 21st day 

of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety two

Signed Sealed published and pronounced as my last will and testament in 

presence of



J.Hamilton                                  Low Todd     seal

David [W. Peeters?McPeeters?]

Daniel Inman



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