WILL: Law, 1838, Trimble & Hardin Cos Jesse Law's Last Will and Testiment. Jesse Law of Hardin County Kentucky being weak of body but of a sound disposing mind, do make and constitute this my last will and testament in manner As follows: 1ST I Risin that my widow Polly Law have a plentiful support out of my estate during her life if she My widow to be furnished by my executors. 2ND I Desen that my deceased son Joel Law children have the one eighth part of all my estate after all my just debts are paid and a support kept for my widow. 3RD I Disen that my daughter Elizabeth Lemaster have one dollar and that her children have the balance of the one eighth of all my estate after the apportiontion for my widow and my debts are paid. 4TH I Disin that my deceased son Willis Laws children have the one eighth of all my estate after all my debts are paid and a support taken out for my widow. 5TH I Desire that my daughter Sally Barnes have the one eighth part of all my estate after my debts are paid and a support taken out for my widow. 6TH I Desire that my deceased sone John Laws children have the one eighth part of all my estate after my debts are paid and support is taken out for my widow. 7TH I Desire that my son Daniel Law have one eighth part of all my estate after my debts are paid and my widow has a plentiful support taken out. 8TH I Desire that my daughter Averilla Barnes have the one eighth part of all my estate after my debts are paid and a plentiful support taken out for my widow. 9TH I Desire that my son Anderson Law have the one eighth part of all my estate after my debts are paid and a plentiful support taken out for my widow. My daughter Elizabeth Lemaster has received one negro girl at five hundred dollars which is a part of my estate and is a part of her childrens legacy. My son Daniel has received one negro boy at two hundred and fifty dollars and one hundred and twenty-five dollars in cash as part of my estate and a part of his legacy which is to be deducted from their part on a settlement. I Desire that imidiatity after my death my executors inpose to public sale all the balance of my estate that has not been given to my children as a part of their legacies. Negroes and Land. I wish them to sell all on a Twelve months. I wish then to make a conveyance of land and negroes by need or any way that they may think proper which I authorise them to do in as full and ample a manner as I can do in person, and tasty I di constitute and I appoint my son Anderson Law and friend William Hamblien(???) This my last will and testament hereby revolking all other or former wills by me made. I wish my executors to act with out giving security and wish them to take the negros to Trimble County and thus sell them. In territory when of I get my hand This day of September 1838 Test Jesse Law Thomas M. Fife John Hodges Henry Hodges Galen Hodges State of Kentucky, Trimble County Court January Ten 1840. A menting purporting to be the last will and testament of Jesse Law deceased was produed in court when upon Thomas M. Fife and Henry Hodges two of the subscribing witnesshereto being sworn state that the said menting was signed and acknowledged by the said Jesse Law deceased as and for his last will and testament and that they believe he was at the time of signing the same of sound disposing mind and memory which wills to be recorded and William Hamblen one of the executors named in said refusing to qualify, when upon Anderson Law the other executor named in will came into court and took upon himself the burden of the executor this. From: "Roger Boardman" Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998