Will of John Rowland

Will of John Rowland
Signed 13-Feb-1821
Recorded May 1821

Transcribed for the Sumner Co. TNGenWeb Page by
Diane Payne
© 2003

You can obtain a copy of the will from the Sumner County Archives.
Note: My copy is very faded and difficult to read.

In the name of the Great first _ all things. I John Rowland being in a low and lingering situation of body though in sound mind and memory - and _ blessings that death is as certain, and as _ as life, do publish this to the _ as my last will and testament which is as follows

I will that all my property be equally divided among my family; and _ of my children as have not been schooled shall be educated at the expense of the common stock. I have one daughter married which I suppose has had her full share. It is _ not _ a _ _ she _ _ is made equal to my other children out of the property I now possess. It is my desire that my friend and neighbor William Locke Alexander and my brother David Rowland do execute this my last will. In witness whereof I _ have unto set my hand and affixed my seal.

13th day of Feby in the year 1821
John Rowland (seal)
Signed and sealed in the presence of
John Stubblefield
Moses Lawson
Allen G_?

State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court May Term 1821
The last will and testament of John Rowland decd. was produced in Court and the same was proved in _ formerly by the oaths of John Stubblefield and Moses Lawson subscribing witnesses . . .



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