Jefferson County TN Archives Wills.....Todd, Low November 21, 1792
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Source: Microfilm Roll#35 Jefferson Co., Tennessee Probate Records ( County Or Chancery
Court) Wills Vol 1-2 Apr 1792 - Dec 1826
Written: November 21, 1792
pg 13
Low Todd
In the name of God Amen I Low Todd Senior of the County of Jefferson being
weak in body but of prfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality
of my body and knowing that os appointed for all men Once to die do make and
Ordain this my last will and testament in the manner and form following VIZ
Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul to God who gave it,
and my body to be burried in a decent manner at the discretion of my
executors. And as to such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me
with in this life I give and devise in the following manner VIZ To my beloved
wife Elizabeth Todd I give and bequeath all my household furniture together
with my dwelling house during the term of her natural life I also devise to
her all my stock except such as is herein otherwise disposed of. Item to my
two sons Low and Samuel I give and devise the land I now live on to them and
their heirs forever together with all my plantation tools and implements of
husbandry.
Item to Mary Todd my daughter I give and bequeath Fifty Bushels of Corn
annually to be paid to her by my sons Low Todd and Samuel Todd so long as she
continues single. Item to Agnes Davis I give and bequeath one Breeding Sow and
one two year old Heifer Item I give and bequeath to Young Low Blackstone the
sum of twenty pounds to be paid to him in land or specifick property as soon
as he arrives at the age of twenty one.
To my two sons James Todd & John Todd I give and bequeath one shilling to each
of them.
To my two daughters Jenny Harrison & Elizabeth Blackstone I give and bequeath
one shilling to each of them.
I do constitute and appoint my son Low Todd to make and execute a Deed of
Conveyance to Samuel Rodgers for the land I sold in Virginia, and to collect
all my just debts, which debts I will to be equally divided between my two
sons Low Todd
pg 14
Samuel Todd and my wife Elizabeth Todd and my daughter Mary Todd. And I
constitute and appoint my wife Elizabeth Todd and my son Low Todd Executors of
this my last will and testament, revoking all other wills by me made. In
testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal this 21st day
of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety two
Signed Sealed published and pronounced as my last will and testament in
presence of
J.Hamilton Low Todd seal
David [W. Peeters?McPeeters?]
Daniel Inman
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