General Notes

SOURCE:  Kentucky Skaggs Records, by Juanita Skaggs Luttrell
                 Page 350 - Will Book 1, Page 137-138

In the name of God, 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 any soul to God who gave it, I make and constitute this instrument of writing where unto my name is subscriber to be my last will and testament revoking all others.  All my debts of which there is but few and snone of magnitude are to be paid and then what 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 & Personal during her natural life except such parts as I shall hereafter mention, that is to say the part of land and plantation where on I now live and 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 ofm y doing this 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 call Susanna.  ITEM:  I will and bequeath to my beloved daughter Rachel BLEVENSES heirs one dollar.  ITEM:  To my beloved daughter Nancy MEREDITH an equal 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 Fredrick 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 duaghter Polly GRAY I will and bequeath to her hirs one dallar.  ITEM:  To my beloved daughter Salley ROBERTSON, I will and bequeath an equal part with others except the part with the others 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 and bequeath my negro man called Sessio and a rifle called sessions gun together with a equal part of the property not mentioned.  ITEM:  To Tempy BELCHER, wife to Perry BELCHER, I will and bequeath to her a filley called the Regged Muffin to be hers immediately after my death.  ITEM:   To Mathew Nathan BLEVIN I will and bequeath two colts, one called Folley and the other Today.  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
James AIKEN
Charles BLEVINS
Charley HOWEL
Wm. C. OWENS
Zachereah NANCE

At  a county Court, helt for Green County at the Court House in Greensorgh on the 22nd day of January 1816 - The witness will of Charles SKAGGS dec'd, was produced in court and proven by the oath of Wm. OWENS, Zacheriah NANCE and Nathaniel OWENS subscribing witness to same will and that they believed him at the time of executing the same to be in his perfect mind anmemory and the same was ordered to be recalled which is done accordingly, given under my hand this 28th day of march 1816.
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