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Joseph Perkins February 26, 1856
Clinton-Cumberland County KyArchives Will

Source: Clinton Co. Ky. County Clerk
Written: February 26, 1856
Recorded: March 18, 1856

Be it known to all persons to whom these presents may come that I Joseph 
Perkins of the County of Clinton and State of Kentucky being under affliction 
of body but sound of mind and believing that my time here in this world is of 
but short duration and wishing to arrange my worldly affairs before my 
departure from this life do make this my last Will and Testament. After first 
bequeathing my Soul to God who gave it and my body to its mother dust, do wish 
my worldly estate both personal and real to be disposed of in the following 
manner. After all my just debts being paid and my body decently buried, I 
leave to my son William Perkins Eight Hundred dollars exclusive of Five I have 
already given him and to my son Christopher Perkins I give the tract of land 
on which he now lives, it being the land laid off for him, it being a part of 
a Two Hundred and Twenty-five acre tract and a Negro man named Coleman to hold 
the same during his life but at his death to his legal heirs, and I also leave 
to my Daughter Lurancy, wife of John Groce, the tract of land on which they 
now live containing Sixty-five acres and also a Negro boy called Ben and Three 
Hundred dollars in money and at her death to her legal heirs and I do also 
leave to the heirs of Lewis Perkins, deceased, Three Hundred dollars and a 
Black Girl called Mariah and to my Daughter Rebecca, wife of James Summers, 
the land on which he now lives supposed to contain Sixty-two acres and a Black 
Girl called Jane and her child to hold the same during his life and at his 
death to belong to his legal heirs and I do also leave to my son Joseph H. 
Perkins the land on which he now lives, supposed to contain Seventy acres, it 
being the balance of the Two Hundred and Twenty-five acre tract as already 
divided between Joseph H. Perkins, Christopher Perkins, and James Summers and 
also one Negro Boy named Daniel to hold the same during his life and at his 
death to belong to his legal heirs and I do leave to my Daughter Polly, wife 
of John Keeton, deceased, Five Hundred dollars and a Black Girl called Hariet 
to hold the same during her life and at her death to belong to her legal heirs 
and the balance of my estate both personal and real at my death to be sold and 
the money equally divided amongst all my legal heirs. In testimony I have 
herewith set my hand this 26th day of February 1856.
                                                  
                                                   his
                                           Jopseph mark Perkins Signed in Presence of Ws. Denis Hopkins Pleasant Huff P. H. Hopkins Wm. Coop

N. B. I also wish my Grandson Joseph Lewis Keeton to have One Hundred dollars 
out of the sale of my estate to be put out on interest till he becomes of age 
and the interest to go toward his schooling.

                                                     his
                                              Joseph mark Perkins Pleasant Huff Denis Hopkins P. H. Hopkins Wm. Coop

Kentucky Clinton County Sct
I S. B. Maxey, Clerk of the Clinton County Court, do certiry that on the 18 
day of March 1856 the Clinton County Court being in session it being a Called 
Term for Special purpose the within last Will and Testament of Joseph Perkins 
Dec'd was exhibited in Court then in session and proven by the oaths of Denis 
Hopkins, Pleasant Huff, P. H. Hopkins, and William Coop, the Subscribing 
Wi9tness there to and the execution of the said Will by the Testator in the 
presence of the Witness and their Subscription thereto as proven by the 
aforesaid Witnesses and said Will was thereupon, by the Court, admitted to 
record as the last Will and Testament of Joseph Perkins, Dec'd.

                                              Test S. B. Maxey, Clk
                                                   By G. L. Shelly D C
                                              Copy attest C. P. Gray Clk

Submitted by: David Perkins http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000652



Additional Comments:
This will was transcribed by David Perkins on October 15, 2003, from a copy 
that was certified by the Clinton Clerk on September 24, 2003 as the true and 
correct copy of Joseph Perkins will.

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