NANCE
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
114-115
C. 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
CHARLES SKAGGS WILL 9 FEBRUARY 1815 GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY
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
WILL: Hartwell MARTIN, 1825 Green County Will Book 2 Page
114-115
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
Tavner NANCE
left a Will dated Aug. 22, 1832, and probated Sep. 24,
1832 (Washington Co. KY)
Will Bk. E, p. 164). It mentions son David W. NANTZ, and it also
mentions John W., Jeremiah, Johnson, Fanny, Louisana T.,
William G., Anna Eliza, Thomas W., Susan Mae, Caroline H. NANTZ, Martha
Chandler, Narcissa Claybrook and Nancy Booker,
relationships to all these not being mentioned.
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