in Kentucky Wills
or Wills with NANCE name in
Index of Wills: (Those labeled "below" are on this page.)
Betsy NANCE his daughter, (below) in Will of Hartwell MARTIN, Green County, Will Book 2 Page 114-115C. C. NANCE, Will, 421, Webster County, Will Book 2, 1886-1916 KY Archives microfilm roll No. 568130
Tavner NANCE, Abstract (below) Washington County, Will Bk. E, p. 164
W. L. NANCE, Will, 416, Webster County Will Book 2, 1886-1916 KY Archives microfilm roll No. 568130
Zachariah NANCE, Abstract (below) Witness for David PREECES, Green County, Will Book 1 p. 65
Zachariah NANCE, (below) Witness for Charles SKAGGS, Green County, Will Book 1 p. 137-139
Will Abstracts - (Green County, Kentucky) Will Book 1 p. 65 David PREECES will. My son Daniel PREECES. My son James PREECES - land bounded by Nathaniel OWENS andby James MONEY. My son Jonas PREECES-land he purchased from me. Wife Anna PREECES. Youngest daughter Levicey PREECES. Equal portions to my children hereafter named- Elenor SCOTT, William Powel PREECES, Jonas PREECES, John PREECES, Mary PEPPER, Precilla PERRY, Lyddia MONEY, Daniel PREECES, Susannah MEERS, Livincy PREECES. Signed David PREECES Feb. 11, 1811. Witnesses Elias BARBEE, James MONEY, Zachariah NANCE. Proved Court Mar. 25, 1811
Will Book 1 pp. 137-139 In the Name of god amen, I CHARLES SKAGGS Citizen of Green County, Kentucky considering the Mortality of human Nature and that it was appointed for all men once to die and after committing my body to the ground and my soul to god who gave it, I make and constitute this instrument of writing whereunto my name is subscribed to be my last will and testament, revoking all others. In primis, all my debts of which there is but few, and none of Magnitude, are to be paid, and then whatever there remains I will and bequeath in the following manner that is to say first my wish and desire is that my beloved wife LUCY SKAGGS shall have the use and profit of my whole estate Real and personal during her Natural life except such parts as I shall hereafter mention, that is to say the part of the land and plantation whereon I now live, and whereon my son MOSES SKAGGS Now lives, on the South side of the branch for him to have the use and benefit of that previous to the decease of his Mother, and at her decease to have the hold of the land the reason of my doing this is because he paid a greater part of the price that we gave for the land, though the deed was made to me. And at the decease of my wife; my desire is to have the whole of the land.
Item first I will and bequeath to my beloved son ARCHIBALD SKAGGS a negro girl called Susanna.
Item I will and bequeath to my beloved daughter RACHEL BLEVEN'S heirs one dollar.
Item to my beloved daughter NANCY MEREDITH an equal part part of my estate except such parts as I have before mentioned and shall hereafter mention.
Item I will and bequeath, to my beloved son FREDERICK SKAGGS I will and bequeath to him his equal part, among the other Children except such parts as is before and hereafter shall be mentioned.
Item to my beloved daughter POLLY GRAY I will and bequeath to her heirs one dollar.
Item to my beloved daughter SALLY ROBERTSON, I will and bequeath an equal part with the others except the parts before and hereafter will be mentioned.
Item to my beloved son THOMAS SKAGGS I will and bequeath my Negro boy called Bob and an equal part with the other Children of the property before mentioned and my said son THOMAS SKAGGS I will to be the executor to my whole estate.
Item to my beloved son MOSES SKAGGS I will bequeath my Negro man called Sepio and a rifle gun called Sepios gun together with a equal part of the property not mentioned.
Item to TEMPY BELCHER, wife to BERRY BELCHER I will and bequeath to her a filly called the reggie muffin to be hers immediately after my death.
Item to NATHAN BLEVIN I will and bequeath two [word crossed out] colts, one called Jolly and the other Tody. In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of February in the year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
CHARLES SKAGGS Tetes:JAMES AKIN
CHARLES BLEVINS
CHARETY HOWEL
WM. G. OWENS
ZACHERIAH NANCE At a County Court, held for Green County at the Courthouse in Greensburgh on the 22nd day of January 1816. The within will of CHARLES SKAGGS Dec'd was produced in Court and proven by the oath of WILLIAM G. OWENS, ZACHERIAH NANCE and NATHANIEL OWENS subscribing witnesses to said will, and that they believed him at the time of executing the same to be in his perfect mind and memory and the same was ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly. Given under my hand this 28th day of March 1816. JOHN BARRET, cfc
I Hartwell MARTIN a citizen of the County of Green and State of Kentucky being in perfect health and of sound mind and calling to mind the mortality of the body knowing that it is appointed for men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament ratifying this and no others. Item first I give unto my beloved wife Nancy MARTIN the farm on which I now live, with all the improvements theron during her natuaral lifetime and at her decease to be equally divided between my sons Martin MARTIN and Hartwell MARTIN.
Item 2nd I give unto my daughter Jincy SKAGGS thirty seven dollars in such movable property as I may have in posession at my death to be valued by two disinterested person one of which is to be chosen by my wife Nancy MARTIN the other to be chosen by said Nabur, the above named $37 is given to the aforesaid Jincy SKAGGS to make her equal part of my estate the same that I have heretofore given to my daughters Sally SCOTT, Polly HASH, July Philpott, Betsy (MARTIN) NANCE for I have heretofore given each of them sixty dollars. I have also given to my son Henry MARTIN sixty dollars, and do seriously believe each of the aforesaid children have received more than will fall to the share of the remainder of my children.
Item 3rd the whole of my personal estate at my decease is to remain in the hands of my wife Nancy MARTIN, and by her to be safely kept together for her use until my sons marries, the one then marrying is to have one third part of said personal estate, the ballance to be reserved until the marriage of the other, at which time he is to have a third part, the remaining third part to be enjoyed by my said wife Nancy MARTIN her lifetime, at her decease to be equally divided between my sons Martin MARTIN and Hartwell MARTIN. Item 4th I give to my son William Martin thirty acres of land where he now lives to be laid off on the west side of my plantation along (unlegible) line so as to include the improvements where said William Martin now lives, and should he wish to sell and remove he is to let my sons Hartwell Martin and Martin have the refusal of said land and to sell to no other person if they wish to purchase,
In testimony Whereof I have set my hand this 31st day of January 1821. Hartwell Martin Witness:
William Sympson
Jeremiah (his X mark) McFarlin
At a County Court held for Green County at the Courthouse in Greenburg on the 17th day of January 1825 This last will and testament of Hartwell Martin deceased was produced in court by Nancy Martin and proven by the oath of William Sympson one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be certified and at a court held for Green County at the Courthouse on the 18th day of April 1825 the same was fully proven by the oath of Jeremiah McFarlin another subscribing witness thereto to have been signed sealed and published as the last will and testament of the said Martin, and at the time of signing the same they believed him to be in his perfect mind and memory and the same is ordered to be recorded which is done. Test, John Barrett, Clerk
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