I Charles Brown of Kanawha County and State of Virginia, Being in 
 sound mind do make the following my will  To-Wit:  in the first place it     
 is my wish & desire that there shall be a lot of my Red house tract of 
 land, laid off above the Gut above where Tallerand T. Brown now lives to
 Begin on the Bank of the River so as to run a line to leave the old
 Schoolhouse ten feet out next to the Branch or gut, and to strike the 
 branch or gut at the point of the hill wher it comes out of the hill and to 
 run up sain branch or gut by its meanders twenty poles, and then run a
 paralel line with the line between Andrew Morrisons line and myself where
 it may stake the back part of my tract, which lot or parcel of land I desire
 to be sold to pay my debts if I shall leave any unpaid, or divide equally
 among my children, and the balance of my Red house tract I give to my two
 sons Tallerand P. Brown and Charles P. Brown the upper half I give to 
 Tallerand P. Brown & the lower half I give to Charles P. Brown and desire
 my sons to let the division stand as they have run the division fence now
 between themselves and my Jackson Five hundred acres I give to my two
 daughters Virginia Campbell and Mary Campbell, and make my children all even
 as to my money that may have aced in my lifetime so that ther shall not be no
 disputing with them about my having aced more than another, but I take that
 on myself to be the judge for I am satisfied to make them even in any thing
 that I have given them or paid for them, and the balance of my estate if any
 shall be divided amongst all my children as though I had made no will and
 my wife I give her one third of all her lifetime, as the law would do in
 such case where there is no will made, and do appoint my son Tallerand
 P. Brown my Executor to act and settle my affairs with full confidence that
 he will do right and honest, and that the Court shall take him without
 security, but at any time if ther should appear that my executor should
 get deranged or attempt to do wrong then in that case the Court by compant
 lodged take steps to stop him, and require security.. And as I feel
 compleatly at myself when writing this will, I desire that no Court shall
 brake said will under no consideration whatever.  Therfore I do sign and
 seal this my last will and testament the ninth day of July Eighteen hundred
 and forty six.                 
                                        Charles Brown, (SEAL)

                   :R.W. Shumaker.
 Witnesses present :Robt. C. Dawson.
                   :Eligah F. Dawson.
        Whereas I charles Brown made a will the 9th day of July 1846 which 
 will I wish to stand so far as I deposed of my property, and the balance of
 my estate which is not willed. I give to my wife the full use of during her
 lifetime and then the reserved part of my Red House tract of land that I
 willed to my two sons Tallerand P. Brown and Charles P. Brown, and at her 
 death I give the second part, above the gut to my two sons, by them paying
 to my daughters Mary Ann Campbell Three hundred dollars that being to make
 up the loss of the Girl Eveline that I gave her, which girl went blind.  I 
 give it to make her equal to Virginia's girl Hanel, whom I have given to
 Virginia Campbell, an at my death, I give Charles P. Brown a girl with Two
 hundred and fifty dollars out of some of the slaves I may leave, if I shall
 not furnish him with one myself amd if I shall not to be charged to him, for
 I give him that to make him even with the rest of my children, which sets 
 them all equal at my death, as I have stated in my will, which will I wish
 to stand so far as it goes and then at my wifes death all the balance that
 I now possess to be equally divided among my four children and Tallerand
 P. Brown to manage this as the former will and this to be axed to the other
 will as part of my will.  Witness wherof I have set my hand & seal the 
 3rd day of August 1848.                        
                                        Charles Brown.
 TTEST:
        John C. Wilson.
        Wm. Miles.
        George P. Dyke
                At a Court held for Kanawha County the 8th day of January 1849
                A writing purpoting to be the last will and testament of 
 Chares Brown decd.  with a codicil thereto annexed, was produced in Court
 by Tallerand P. Brown the executor herein named and dires witnesses To Wit:
 Specier Patrick, Alexnader W. Quarrier, Samuel A. Miller & John a Truslow 
 were sworn and deposed that they are well acquainted with the estators hand
 wrinting and verily believe the said writing and the name therto subscribed
 to be wholly written by the Testators own hand.  Wherupon the said writing
 is ordered to be acorded as the true last will and testament of Charles
 Brown decd. with codicil aforesaid annexed.            
                                             Teste: A.W. Quarrier, Clerk

 Putnam County Court Clerk's Office:   Copy Teste: A.W. Quarrier, Clerk

 December 19th 1849
        This copy of Charles Browns Will was this day presented to me in my
 and thereupon together with the certificate of the Clerk of Kanawha 
 County Court admitted to record.                Teste: H.H. Forbs, Clerk.

 WEST VIRGINIA, PUTNAM COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE:
                                                     June 9th. 1915.

 I, J.M. Henson, Clerk of the County Court of Putnam County, West Virginia
 certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the will of Charles Brown and
 the certificate hereto annexed as transcribed by me from original Will
 Book No. 1, Pages 2.                   Teste: J.M. Henson, Clerk

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