From: KyArchives [archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:25 AM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Gautier.Nicholas.1843.Logan.WILL Nicholas Gautier September 25, 1843 Logan County KyArchives Will Source: Will Book G, Pg 397 Logan County, Ky Written: September 25, 1843 Last Will & Testament of Nicholas Gautier 1843,written 25 SEP, probated 25 OCT Last Will & Testament OF NICHOLAS GAUTIER Source: Kentucky Wills Book G Page 397 – Will written 25 SEP 1843 and probated 23 OCT 1843. I Nicholas Gautier of the County of Logan and State of Ky. being of sound and disposing mind and memory but calling to recollection the mortality of man do make ordain and publish to this as my last will and testament hereby revoking all others. 1st It is my will and desire that I be decently buried in a Christian like manner. 2nd It is my will that my debts with as little delay as possible be paid. 3rd I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Gautier in fee simple the following described property towit, a negro girl named Angelina aged about ten years a Negro woman named Rachael aged about thirty three and her child aged about two years my Barruch and horse Charley One of my best beds and a sufficiency of clothing for the same also my imported carpet all the property my said wife brout with her at our intermarriage and twelve hundred dollars in cash. 4th It is my desire that my Executors pay to my daughter Emily Bowden twenty dollars which shall be in full of her portion of my estate I having already given her her full part. 5th It is my will and desire that Executors pay to my grand sons Edmound Small and John N. Small fifty dollars each it being in full of their mother’s portion of my estate she being dead and having received her part of my estate except as above in her lifetime. 6th It is further my will and desire the balance of my property not heretofore mentioned shall be divided equally among the rest of my children share and share alike provided however that my daughter Elizabeth Scott is not to receive as much as the other children by two hundred dollars or is to have in said division two hundred dollars less than the other or less than those who get full shares and provided also that my son David Gautier in said division is to receive as his full share of my estate five hundred dollars less than those of my children who receive full shares. 7th It is also my will and desire that that part of my estate which may be coming to my “said daughter Elizabeth Scott shall be in money and shall be held by my said Extors in trust for the exclusive use and benefit of my said daughter and children and that her said husband is to have no control over the same whatsoever and I also desire that my said Executors loan out the said money from year to year and pay the interest therein annually to my said daughter for the use of herself and children. It is also my will that should my said daughter Elizabeth survive her said husband that my Extrs should pay to her said money but in case the husband should survive then it is my will that my said Executors as Extor or either of them shall pay to the children of said Elizabeth each an equal portion of said money as soon as they shall respectively arrive at age. 8th It is further my will that my son Etieune Gautier have the land that I purchased from James Morehead sufficient to contain fifty acres and also the tract of land I purchased of Archibald Scott sufficient to contain one hundred and sixty acres more or less. The whole to be charged to him in said division as twelve hundred dollars advanced. 9th It is further my will and desire as I have made advancements to all my children who have married that before they come in for an equal division of my said estate that each of them shall bring said advance into XXXX or any advancement I may hereafter make the amount of which said advancement to be ascertained and liquitated and estimated by the memorandum I keep showing said advancement. 10th It is my will that my Executors or Extr or either of them shall sell the land and premises upon which I now live to the very best advantage and upon such terms as in their judgment is best calculated to advance the interest of my said children. 11th It is also my will that should either of my said Executors herein after named refuse to qualify or should either of them die before my said estate is wound up & settled that the one who does qualify or the one who shall survive shall full have power and authority to carry this my will into effect as fully and as completely as though both had qualified or was living. 12th It is my will and desire as I have full confidence in my Executors that the county court of Logan suffer them to qualify without requiring them to give security. 13th I will and desire that my faithful servant named Lucy at my death shall be free and that my Extrs furnish her out of my estate at least one year’s provisions and clothing. 14th And lastly I do hereby appoint James N. Walker and David King Executors of this my last will and testament in testimony that the foregoing four and one half pages is my last will and testament. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this the 25th day of Sept 1843 and acknowledge the same in the presence of the subscribing (?) Witnesses attest. His signature: Nicholas Gautier H.L. HULEE G.H. WALLACE Logan County xxx October Term 1843 J. MARMADUKE B. MORTON as clerk of the said Logan county court do certify that at a county court held for said county at the court house in Russellville on the 23rd day of October 1843 the written last will and testament of NICHOLAS GAUTIER dead was produced and in court and proven by the oaths of H. J. HULCE and GEORGE H. WALLACE subscribing(?) witnesses thereto to be the last will and testament of said Nicholas Gautier dead and ordered to be recorded which together with this certificate hath been duly admitted to record in my office given under my hand the date above. M. B. Morton c See(?) [Transcribed by Judy Gautier] Submitted by: Judy Gautier jgautier@austin.rr.com This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/