General Notes

Custom Field:<_FA#> One source has his birth place as Richmond Co., VA@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
Custom Field:<_FA#> Beulah Primitive Baptist Church of Pike Co., AL records his death year as 1854.@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
He was a member of Beulah Primitive Baptist Church in Pike County, Troy,
Alabama. When he was a member, the church was located on South Three
Notch Street. It was organized May 15, 1831 and is Troy's oldest
church.(1)
(1) From the (Troy) Messenger Sesquicentennial Profile 1993.
Pike County - Last Will and Testament of Jesse Pugh
In the name of God, Amen
I, Jesse Pugh, of the County of Pike in the state of Alabama, being of
sound mind and disposing memory and in good health, but having attained
an age, when I feel that it is wise to arrange may affairs in this world,
when I cannot in the order of nature continue to live a great while
longer, do make and ordain this my last will and testament hereby
revoking all other wills which I have at any time made.
First, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Lydia the following
Negroes, Rueben, George and Huldah, also two hundred acres of land being
the east 1/2 of the NW1/4 and the West 1/2 of the NE1/4 and the S. East
1/4 of the NE1/2 of Section 14, T. 10 and R. 20 in the County of Pike
aforesaid, also all my household and kitchen furniture, Plantation tools,
two mules and one horse, five cows and calves, four sows and pigs and ten
head of stock cattle besides five ewes and lambs, twelve hundred pounds
of pork, four hundred bushels of corn, and one thousand weights of fodder
to be the property of my wife during her life subject to her absolute
control, and upon her death to be sold and the proceeds divided equally
among by heirs, named in this will.
Second, I give and bequeath to my son Mastin B. a Negro Girl Charity and
a Negro Boy Nelson.
Third, I give and bequeath to my Daughter Malinda Stinson, now a widow,
Lucy a Negro Woman and her child Silas said Negroes to be the property of
my Daughter Malinda during her life, and after her decease to descend to
her children: and I hereby direct that in case Malinda should marry
again, the same property is to be kept for her sole and separate use
during her life and immediately become the property of her children upon
her death.
Fourth, I give and bequeath to my son Burrell, Laner a Negro Woman and
her increase.
Fifth, I give and bequeath to the children of my deceased daughter
Elizabeth, to wit, Jesse, Louis, John, Emeline, Rebecca, Lydia, Albert
Dowering, and Betsy, a sum of money out of my Estate, equal in amount to
the value of the property which my children take under this will; that is
they are to have in money a share of my Estate equal too the share which
their mother would have received as one of my Heirs, had she survived me.
Sixth, I give and bequeath to the children of my deceased daughter Polly
Ann Wiggins, to wit, Lydia, Jane, Rhoda, Margaret, Martha, Jesse
Harrison, and Mastin the same amount of money as I have directed to be
paid to the children of my deceased daughter Elizabeth that is they shall
be paid a sum of money equal in amount to the share which my other
children are to receive in property and which their mother my daughter
Polly Ann, would have received had she survived me.
Seventh, I give and bequeath to my son Ira the Negroes, Betsy, a woman,
and Rose, a girl, and their increases.
Eighth, I give and bequeath to my son Albert a Negro Woman Letty and a
Negro boy Isaac with the further increase of Letty.
Ninth, I give and bequeath to my son Louis a Negro Boy Henry and a Negro
girl Cynthia with her further increase.
Tenth, I give and bequeath to my daughter Adeline wife of Stephen
Blackburn a Negro woman Easter and a Negro boy Fortune to be the property
of my daughter Adaline for her sole and separate use fee from the control
of her husband and not in any way liable for his deb