Scott County, Kentucky
Wills
Will Book J
1845 - 1847
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I, James Jones of the county of Scott and state of Kentucky do hereby make my last will and testament in the manner and form following, That is to say. 1st I desire all my debts and funeral expenses to be paid, by selling off such of my stock and perishable property as will be sufficient to satisfy same. Leaving the remainder or such a proportion of it as my wife Rachael Jones shall see cause to keep to her during her natural life. And further after all my debts and funeral expences are paid I desire that my wife Rachael shall have full and peaceable possession of all my lands and every thing else which I own during her natural life. 2nd ly I desire after the death of my wife Rachael that my executors hereafter to be named shall for thwith proceed to sell the land and every species of property so that it may be divided in manner hereafter to be named. 3rd ly as my son William Jones lives with me and has faithfully discharged his duty to me as a son taking care and providing for the family in my old age, I desire he shall have two hundred dollars extra and above the rest. 4th ly I desire that Robt Jones an illegitimate child of my daughter Elizabeth Jones dec shall have one hundred dollars to be paid to him when he arrives at the age of 21. 5th ly I desire after the above amounts are paid and all expences that my daughter Polly Magbee, my son Benjamin Jones, my daughter Jane Hezzleriggs my son Jas Jones my son Robt Jones my son John Jones and my son Wm Jones have an equal divide among them and to be enjoyed by them forever excepting my daughters portion the above named Jane Hazzelriggs which I desire shall be put in the hands of my son John Jones for the use of said Jane Hazzelriggs and her bodily heirs to be distributed to them as necessity may demand until the amount be extinguished and this is to prevent her husband Elijah Hazzelriggs from ravishingly spending the same and the family want, and should said Jane die before the amount is expended I desire it to fall to the heirs of her body And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint Beeri C Glass executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments by me hereto fore made in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 26th day of June 1840.
Signed
sealed published and declared as and for the last will and testament of the
above named Jas Jones in presence of us: |
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James
Jones died January 1st, 1847. His wife Rachael died before him. James Jones
and Rachel Bell applied for a marriage license in
Woodford County October 11, 1791. James Bell posted bond and wrote a note stating that said Rachel Bell was of lawful age to contract marriage. It was witnessed by Cave Johnson. James Jones was born in York Co. PA about 1764. He moved with his father Ben, to Northumberland County before the war. He enlisted as a private during the Revolutionary War and served guarding the frontier against the Indians and the British. They came to Scott County about 1789 and settled around the Long Lick Pike area. His brother Joe was killed during a raid by the Indians before James was married. James and his future brother-in-law, James Bell, were hired for a dollar a day by the wealthy men in the county to spy on the Indians.
Lexington
Observer Reporter |
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