Ok, are we eating livestock or slaves? I know it was bad for some slaves but not that
bad.
I'd have to vote for a reference to an increase in slaves since that's what they
were talking about in that same sentence.
Shirley
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From: MaryLu
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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [INDELAWA-L] What does Increase mean, in the following will??
Sounds like "increase" would be the livestock born after the date of the
will which are still in her possession. (Some died! Some were ate.)
MaryLu in Minnesota
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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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