Will of TODD, Thomas
Will Book 2 · Page 7
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I make and ordain this my last will and testament the same being wholly forgotten and subscribed with my own hand.
I have heretofore given to my son Charles S. Todd slaves and other property and expended and advanced considerable sums of money
which I consider his full proportion of my estate. I therefore desire that he shall not have any further portion of it. I have also given my
son John H. Todd slaves and other property and expended and advanced considerable sums of money which I consider his full proportion
of my estate. I therefore desire that he shall not have any further portion of it. I have also given my son-in-law Edmund L. Starling, who
intermarried with my daughter, Ann Maria slaves and made advances to him what I consider a sufficient marriage portion to my said
daughter. I therefore desire that she shall not have any further portion of my estate. Except that I request my Executor hereafter
named to secure the sum of five hundred dollars specie for the use of my said daughter during her life and at her death to be paid to
such child or children as she may have living at that time. I give and desire to my affectionate wife, Lucy P. Todd all the rest and residue
of my estate real property mixed or of any and every nature or denomination whatever during her life in trust, to manage it for the support
of herself and our children and at her death to be equally divided among our children; Madisonia William Johnson and James Madison Todd
and their heirs forever.
It is my desire and intention that all the estate real personal mixed or of any and every other description whatever which I now have or which
I may have at the time of my death or to which I may be entitled in Law or equity or in any way whatever shall pass by the foregoing devise.
I hereby constitute and appoint my said wife sole Executor of this will & desire that she may not be required or compelled to give any security
for obtaining letters testamentary thereon or to make out any inventory or appraisement of my estate. I further authorize & empower my said
wife to execute deeds or other instruments of writing to carry into full effect any contract which I have entered into and to settle and adjust by
arbitration compromise or in any other way she may deem proper any suit, dispute or controversy of whatever nature respecting my affairs and
to appoint attornies or agents with the power of substitution and manage all or any part of the estate hereby devised to her and to perform any
act which she herself could do by virtue of the powers hereby vested in her. I hereby give full power to my wife to sell and dispose of all or any
part of the estate devised to her for life or in trust and to vest the proceeds in such other property or manage it in such manner as she may
deem most advisable for the interest of herself and our said children.
In testimony whereof I do hereby sign, seal, publish and declare this writing as and for my last will and testament hereby revolking all former wills
this twenty second day of December Eighteen hundred and twenty three.
Thomas Todd
Schedule of Property Value
1485 acres land in Garrard County entered & surveyed in the name of John Crutchfield & patented
to a Bartlett C. Thomas & T. Todd for which a suit is now appending in the Garrard Circuit Court
where all my title papers are filed.
Showing how I derived my title
2000.00
200/200} 400 acres in Muhlenburg entered & surveyed in the name of C. F. Wing & patented
to T. Todd
200.00
1666 2/3 acres on the Mississippi below the Iron Banks entered in the name of George Muters
& devised by him to me, see his will recorded in Woodford
3333.00
1000 acres west of the Tennessee same as above
1000.00
1500 acres same as above (probably sold by Co. Muter)
750.00
1000 acres on Green River, entered surveyed & patented to George Muter, see patent
1000.00
My proportion of the military lands purchased in partnership with James Tayler, Mr. S. Waller,
see Wallers receipt for purchase money advanced to me
1000.00
100 acres in Franklin County conveyed to me by Mat Clark
3000.00
50 acres "Do" sold me by T. Hughes adjoining south Frankfort
2000.00
6 acre lot adjoining Weisiger conveyed to me by Andrew Holmes
500.00
Lots and tenements in Frankfort No. 6 & 13 $5000
Lots and tenements in Frankfort No. 8 & 11 $10,000
15000.00
Lots and tenements in South Frankfort No. 275 to 282 and from 308 to 378
can't read
Brought over
39785.00
Slaves
Men
Norfolk
$500.00
Women
Lucy
$400.00
Cassius
$500.00
Peggy
$400.00
Tom
$500.00
Fanny
$300.00
George
$500.00
William
$500.00
$2650.00
$1100.00
6200.00
Girls
Clarissa
$400.00
Kitty
$300.00
Matilda
$200.00
Sarah
$200.00
Bridge stock 100 shares
10000.00
Bank Stock Alexandria 6 2/3 shares
300.00
Turnpike Stock 20 shares
2000.00
Debts due
John Harris - $1646.00 as besides Interest
Abraham Todd - $1000.00 or the land sold him, see agreement
See bundle bonds & Notes amt. not known
2646.00
Plate household & kitchen furniture
3000.00
Library Law history & miscellaneous
3000.00
Carriages, horses, cattle wagon & farming utensils
2000.00
December 22, 1823
68929.00
Lands in Missouri (omitted) [written on left margin]
1500.00
$
70429.00
I add by way of codicil as I have purchased and given my accep. Thomas Todd
To Thomas D. Carneal for a negro boy named Mitchell now in the possession of Mrs. Sarah Carneal & for her use by will
has or will devise this said Mitchell to me in trust for my daughter Ann Marie and her children, I therefore revoke that part
of this requiring my executrix to secure five hundred dollars to my said daughter.
Thomas Todd
Jany 10th 1824
Franklin County February Court 1826
A writing purporting to be the will and testament, of Thomas Todd, decd.. was produced in court, and was proven by the
oaths of John H. Hanna, Luke Marshall and William Washington that the said will and signatures was wholly in the hand
writing of said Thomas Todd, which will is ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly.
A copy Test:
A. Rennick, Clk