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John, et al. Jupin 1816 
Nelson County KyArchives Court 
Source: Nelson Circuit Court Burnt Chancery Records 
Written: 1816 
Recorded: March 18, 1816 
Joint and seperate answer of James D(J)upin Ca[tharine] McAdams & Alexr. 
McAdams her husband late Catha[rine] D(J)upin, Sophia, and Charles Dennehu her 
husband [late] Sophia Jupin, Freeborn Jupin, Ellender & John [Ric]hy her 
husband, late Ellender Jupin and Elijah [Wrigh]t and Clemency his wife late 
Jupin, Hugh Lemaster & [Mary] his wife late Jupin 
Children and grand Children of J[ohn Jupin] decd. to a Bill in Chy. exhibited 
in this Nelson Circuit [Court] by Charles Medcalf against them --- 
        These Defts. saving &c answer and [sa]y that they have heard & believe 
that John Jup[in] [the]ir decd. father was at the time of his decease i[nsa]ne 
and wholly incapable of making a last Will [and] Testament - They know that his 
mind had be[en] . . . disordered for some time before his . . . understood 
an . . . Deranged State of his mind increased with [inc]reasing Debility of 
body & the progress of the [dise]ase which terminated his life. They have been 
moreover informed & believe that at the [ti]me the alledged will should have 
been Executed [the] sd. John John Jupin was not only entirely [Dera]nged in 
Mind & thereby utterly incapable to M[ake a la]st will & testament on that 
account . . . also so enfeebled by disease & . . . ssolution as to be unable to 
sign his name to the sd. alledged will or signify by utterance or intelligible 
sign his approbation thereof - They have good reason to believe that Lewis 
Jupin procured the alledged Will to be written as it is, & thereby he is in 
fraud of his Brothers & Sisters . . . sales, and availed himself of the 
deranged State of mind & the enfeebl[ment] of Body of his Father to give (-?-) 
the opinion of Strangers to the State of the mans Mind, be thought an 
acquiescence. 
        The Defts Deny fraud & concur in the complt. that the alledged Will be s 

[et aside] & the property Distributed among the representatives of the sd. John 
Jupin. 
Charles Dono . . . 
Sophia Dono . . . 
Alexander McA . . . 
Catharene M . . . 
John x Ritchie 
Eleoder x Richie 
John Ricthie M . . . 
Nelson Circuit Sct Sworn to in open court in the [usual way] by the above 
Persons before me this 18th March [1816] 
James Slaughter Jr [Clk] 
Nelson Circuit Sct Sworn to by Freeborn J[upin] before me in the usual way this 
20th day of March 1816. 
James Slaughter Jr Clk 
Nelson Circuit Sct Sworn to in open court in the usual way before me this 25th 
March 1816 by James Jupin. 
James Slaughter Jr Clk 
Nelson Circuit Sct Sworn to by Elijah Wright & Clemency his wife and Hugh 
Lemaster and [Mar]y his wife in open court this 1st day of April before me. 
James Slaughter Jr Clk 
(endorsement on reverse) 
. . .           ) 
        vs.     )       Answer 
Medcalf         ) 
Filed in my Office this 18th March 1816. 
James Slaughter Jr Clk 


Submitted by: Bob Van Bogaert 
rbogaert8@aol.com 



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