General Notes

Also Known As:<_AKA> /Neal/
Neal McCann, Junior, had a woolcarding factory at the Forks of the Paris Road
and Bryant Station Road, near Chilesburg, Fayette Co., KY.

The Will of Neal McCann, Junior was dated 6 July 1822, probated Sept. 1822,
Fayette Co., Ky. This will indicates that there was a disagreement in the
family about the ownership of a negro woman named Charity. I do not know
which of the daughters married David Watts but she was deceased and the
Will reads as if Neal McCann wanted his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Watts
"delivered up to testator's wife". Neal McCann's brother, Joseph MCann
had a daughter, Polly McCann, who married a David Watts.

The Will of Neal McCann (Junior) is given in Vol 5., page 283 of the book
Fayette County Records by Michael and Bettie Cook: "Page 529, Will of
Neal McCann of Fayette County states that he has heretofore given to
son HEZEKIAH McCann a negro woman and other property, the whole estimated
at 591.00, and to son JOSEPH McCann, $189.00, and to son NEAL McCann, $80.00
in a horse. He lends the estate that he has to his wife during her life or
or widowhood, to be so disposed of so as to make sons Joseph and Neal equal
in property at its real value to what he has heretofore given son Hezakiah.
The property lent to his wife for the maintenance and education of the
younger children, so soon as practicable, after the younger children have
arrived at the age of 21 or marry, for each of them to receive a portion
equal to son Hezekiah. Whereas there has arisen a dispute between him
and David Watts, respecting the title to a negro woman by the name of
Charity, the testator denied ever having made a title for Charity to
Watts. To grandson, THOMS JEFFERSON WATTS, after the death of testator's
wife, a horse valued at $50.00 and no other part of the estate. Provided
however, if the above named David Watts shall deliver up to testator's
death the above named negro woman Charity, to become a part of his estate,
and to release the estate of all costs of suits and also all suits against
his sons, and likewise deliver up the said grandson Thomas Jefferson Watts
to testator's wife, agreeably to the request of said grandson's mother,
then, in that case, Thomas Jefferson Watts is to be placed on equal footing
with the testator's younger children in every respect, saving the value
of household and other furniture that said grandson's mother received from
the testator upon her intermarriage with the said David Watts. After all
the children are equaled in property, and after wife's death, then the
remainder of the estate to be equally divided among all the testator's
children subject to the restrictions and conditins above named on behalf
of grandson Thomas Jefferson Watts. Appoints beloved wife, SARAH McCANN
as executrix, and sons Hezekiah, Joseph and Neal and also sons William
McCann and Thomas McCann when they arrive at the age of 21 years, as
executors. July 6, 1822. Witnesses: Joseph Graves, John C. Graves and
William Hornback. Probated September Court, 1822."

Neal McCann married Sarah (Sally) Ellis. They had 9 children. The names of his
children are the same names as some of his brothers and sisters. This
large McCann family repeated first names often, especially the names
Neal, Pleasant, and Joseph. That causes care to avoid confusion.