Will of BLAINE, Mary
Will Book 2 · Page 141
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I Mary Blaine of the County of Franklin and State of Kentucky, do make & publish this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills.
First. It is my will and desire that ll my past debts be paid.
Second. I will an desire that my daughter Sarah Ann Holton shall have the two negro men named John & Charles and the negro woman named
Charlotte & twelve hundred dollars in money to be paid by my executor herein after named first after the payment of debts and funeral expenses,
my said daughter to hold and enjoy the said negroes and money during her life and after her decease then to go to her two daughters or the
survivor, if one of them shall died before she attains her full age of twenty one and without issue. Third. It is my will & desire that the balance of my
estate of every kind be equally divided between my two children John L. Blaine & Mary Jane Tompkins. The share of my said daughter Mary Jane
to be held by my son John L. Blaine in trust for her sole and separate use independent of her husband, during her life and after her death shall go
to her children or the survivors, if any of them shall die before they attain the age of twenty one years and without issue. And whereas my some
John L. Blaine has advanced on my account -???- and thirty five dollars (moneys which he has collected of my deceased husbands estate) to
William R. Tompkins, the husband of my said daughter Mary Jane, to be invested according to her receipts for the same. Now it is my will and desire
that the said sum of moneys is to constitute a part of my said daughters moiety, devised as aforesaid, and the same is to be vested in trust for her
use and pass in all respect as divided above in relation to her moiety of the devise to her 7 her brother. Fourth, It is my will that my executor herein
after named or administrators with the will annexed as the case may be shall have power and authority to sell and convey all my real & personal
estate not herein specifically devised.
Fifth. It is my will and desire in case my son John or my daughter Mary Jane or her husband or their legal representatives shall assert any claim to
the negroes herein before devised to my daughter Sarah Ann Holton, by suit or otherwise, so as to disturb her in the full and free enjoyment of them, then
the devise in favour of the party so disturbing her shall -???- to the benefit of my said daughter Sarah Ann Holton and she is to be entitled to the full
benefit of said devise in the same manner as if it had been made in her favour. Sixth I hereby Constitute and appoint [blank area] as my executor
of this my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of April 1839. Interlined before signed in the third
clause the words "without issue" in the fifth clause the words "or her husband or"
Mary Blaine
Test W. S. Johnson
R. B. McKee
John P. Reading
Franklin County Court May Term 1843
A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Mary Blaine deceased produced in Court & proven by the oaths of R B McKee and John P. Reading
subscribing witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly. Att. A. H. Rennink CFCC