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From: "Chris & Gina Richardson" <richardson69(a)comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:39 AM
Subject: [INDELAWA-L] What does Increase mean, in the following will??
Ok everyone did such a good job on the CONSORT, now I have your next
challenge, What would INCREASE mean in the following will????
Will of John H Richardson
> Fentress County Courthouse
> Warrenty Book D page 561
>
> "I, John H. Richardson, of the county of Fentress and State of
Tennessee,
do
> make and publish this my last will and testament, being of sound
mind.
> "I direct that my body be decently buried and my funeral expenses be
paid.
> "As to such worldly estates as it hath pleased God to
entrust me with, I
> dispose of the same as follows.
> "First: I direct that my just debts be paid, if any there be by my wife
> Abigal, and that my wife Abigal collect all my debts if any. I do
appoint my
> wife
> Abigal Richardson my Executrix and Administrator, without giving
security,
and
> all the personal property of all description of every kind,
horses,
cattle,
> sheep, hogs, and all household and kitchen furniture of every
description, the
> farming tools, to my wife all of her life time and my wife to
have all
the
> cattle, horses, and all the outhouses, barns and all the
stables, and
all of
> my
> land containing four hundred and thirty three acres; at her death my son
> Stokely
> D.H. Richardson to have the houses and barn and half of the four hundred
and
> thirty three acres of land and also at my wife's death to
have a Negro
boy
> named Talbut, and my wife Abigal Richardson to have a Negro man
name
John and
> a
> Negro woman named Hannah, a Negro boy Talbert and at my wife's death the
half
> of land John and Hannah and all the property that remains at the
time to
be
> equally divided among my children. I do will unto my son Robert
Richardson, a
> Negro boy named Slit??? and I do also will my daughter Evelyn a
Negro
girl
> named
> July Ann. And if such ??? event should take place that my wife should
marry
> again then Stokely to have the land bequeathed to him the Negro
boy
Talbut,
> and
> Evelyn my daughter to have the Negro girl July Ann, and the other half
of the
> land be divided amongst all the rest of my children, and if
Hannah the
Negro
> girl should have any increase, the first is to be my son Henry H
Richardson's,
> and all the rest of the increase if any to be divided amongst
all the
rest of
> my children. If Evelyn should marry, my wife Abigal is to give
out of
the
> property a good horse, saddle, and bridle, and two beds and
furniture
and one
> milk
> cow.
> "I want this to be recorded as my last will and testament and nothing
further
> to be done with it. The clerk is not to call on my wife Abigal
Richardson for
> any settlement only yo pay the recording fee.
> "This I have written with my own hand."
> Signed John H Richardson
>
> "In addition to the above I will and bequeath to my son Jeffry one
hundred
> acres of land where he now lives. I futher will and bequeath the
first
child
> of
> my black woman Hannah may have, if any, to my son Jeffry. I will and
bequeath
> to my son Henry the one half of four hundred and thirty four
acres of
land
> where I now live at the death of my wife Abigal. After my
wife's death
my son
> Henry is to pay William H Richardson one hundred dollars, just
as soon
as he
> can
> make it convenient, and my wife Abigal and my son Henry to be my
> administrators, without giving bond or security.
> "My wish is that this will be placed on the record and no furthur cost
upon
> it, only the record fee.
> Proven open court by Charles P Gray and John W Simpson, this 5th day of
> March.
> Sighned : F.M. Collier, D.C.
>
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