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95 I, Mildred Tunstall do make & constitute this my last will testament. First - I give & bequeath unto Elizabeth Ann Todd, daughter of Mrs. Maria K. Crittenden my negro girl Adeline. Secondly - I give & bequeath unto Catherine L. Todd, daughter of Mrs. Maria K. Crittenden my negro girl Candice. Thirdly - I give devise & bequeath unto Harry I. Todd, son of the said Mrs. Crittenden & his heirs forever a certain lot or parcel of land situate on the hill on the north side of the Kentucky on the hill on the north side of the Kentucky river & within or near to the lands of the town of Frankfort and containing or supposed to contain two acres & sixteen poles. Fourthly - It is my will and desire that my slaves Gloster & Cynthia his daughter should be emancipated & set free and I do hereby emancipate and set them free & do direct & enjoin my executor herein after named to do whatever may be legal, necessary & proper to effect & secure their complete liberation and freedom. The said Cynthia is to support & maintain her father Gloster in case he should at anytime become unable to support or maintain himself. Fifth - All my other slave, to wit; Charles, Susan, Imajin, William, Cassius, Walter, Julia & their future increase, with any other slaves I may die possessed of - my house & lots in south Frankfort & my stock in the Frankfort Bridge, being fourteen shares. I give, devise & bequeath unto Mrs. Maria K. Crittenden until the youngest of said three children shall attain the age of twenty-one years, if she shall so long live, and upon the youngest ____ children attaining the age of twenty-one years, or upon the death of Mrs. M. K. Crittenden, if that event should sooner happen, all the property and slaves devised to her with their increase if any are to pass to & be equally divided between her said three children of the survivor or survivors of them. But, if either of said children die before the youngest comes of age leaving issue then each issue is to have the part & portion its parent should have been entitled to had the parent lived. The property & estate here devised to Mrs. Crittenden is to be held & used by her as though she were sole & unmarried and it is to be fore her sole & separate use, the better to enable her to maintain, support & educate her said children as my chose to do and is not subject to any claim, contract or disposition of her husband. Sixth - It is my will & desire that my household & kitchen furniture & stock be sold to defray my funeral expenses & all my just debts. Seventhly - All the rest & residue to the said Maria K. Crittenden in like manner for the same estate & with the like remainder to her said three children as is expressed in the fifth clause or article hereof. Lastly - I appoint John J. Crittenden sole executor of this my last will and testament hereby revolking & annulling all other wills by me hereunto made. In witness I have here set my hand & seal this 25th day of May 1831. Mildred Tunstall
Signed,
sealed & acknowledged in our presence & attested
Franklin
County Court, November Term 1837 |
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