Will of McCRACKIN, Seneca
Will Book 2 · Page 33
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Know all men by these presents That I seneca McCrackin of Franklin County and State of Kentucky Being of sound mind and memory do constitute this my last will & testament
in way and manner as follows Towit. Item 1st To William McCrackin I have given one hundred acres of land on Drennans lick Creek as my deed to him will.
Item 2d I have conveyed to my daughter Sarah Ship one hundred acres of land on or near Drennans lick Creek as my deed will shew.
Item 3d I have conveyed to my daughter Betsey Hamilton one hundred acres of land on Drennans lick Creek as my deed to her will shew.
Item 4th I do will and bequeath to my son Otho McCrackin all that tract or parcel of land, Beginning on the South side of main Elkhorn near the forks at a stake on Stevens line thence
north Twenty three degrees East, crossing, the creek to the point of a cliff or rocks at the mouth of a branch passing a black oak and white oak at the head of a small spring same
course passing two boxelder trees, and a walnut each standing in the pasture, all marked, passing on the same course to Ovid McCrackins preemption line thence Seventy east
with said line to North Elkhorn and crossing the same thence down the creek and binding thereon to the forks to include the mill seat together with the saw mill thence to the
Beginning and also I do will him all the right I may have in an entry of land in the name of Rachel McCrackin for which I have a patent. I also will to him my clock & cupboard
together with the Big farm wagon and also that he shall hold possession of my farm houses and all the farming utensils and everything appertaining to the farm as though I were
living for at least one year (or until he shall raise one crop from my deceased) and my wish is that he should keep all my negroes with him, during the Term of one year also,
everything as tho I was living.
5th I do will and bequeath unto my son Osborn McCrackin all that tract or parcel of land It being a part of the tract where I now live on beginning at a marked white oak standing
in a gap in the cliff on Ovid McCrackins North preemption line on the road leading from my house to John Olivers thence South westwardly along and on the top of the cliff to a
marked white oak at the point of said cliff thence from said white oak South fourteen degrees west on hundred and twenty poles to three marked sugar trees on the bank of main
Elkhorn thence same course to Stevens line thence with Stevens line down the creek to the Beginning.
Item 6th I do will & bequeath to my daughter Mary Stewart one hundred acres of land on or near Drennans lick creek as my deed will shew.
Item 7th I do will and bequeath to my daughter Margaret Scott one hundred acres of land on or near Drennans lick creek as my deed will shew.
Item 8th it is my wish that my mansion house where I now live together with about eighty acres of land more or less which will lay between the land of my two sons Otho & Osborn
as designated in the will shall remain in possession of my son Otho McCrackin as named above one year after my deceased and that then and not until then it shall be sold and the
money equally divided amongst all my children.
Item 9th I wish that my silver cups may be divided equally that is each child to have one in remembrance of their father.
Item 10th My desire is that my executors shall at any time after my deceased as they may think best, sell off all my perishable stock household & kitchen furniture except what
is named above. And all my bonds notes and money if there should be any make any equal divide amongst all my children, and now after disposing of all my estate real and
personal I proceed to name my executors. I wish John Hamilton, Richard Shipp, Otho McCrackin my executors to this my last will and testament Revolking all others. Given
under my hand and seal this 2d day of August 1828.
Seneca McCrackin
Witness
Richardson Allen
Willis Oliver
Rice W. Oliver
Franklin County Sct. September Court 1829
A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Seneca McCrackin decd. was produced in court & proven by the oaths of Richardson Allen, Willis Oliver and Rice W.
Oliver the subscribing witnesses thereto and the same is ordered to be recorded, and thereupon the same hath been duly admitted in my office.
Test. A. H. Rennick clk.