Logan County Will Book A

 
TAYLOR, William Pg:229 July 6, 1808
ELEY, Eli Pg: May 21, 1812


TAYLOR, William
Book: A; Page:229 Date: July 6, 1808

    Know all men by these presents, that I William Taylor of Logan County and State of Kentucky do make over all my living 
to Polly my wife as long as she lives and for her to keep the children together and try to raise them on it and my land for
 Polly my wife to live on it as long as she pleases till her death and then for my sons to divide the land amongest them 
equally. July the 6th day 1808.
    I wish this to be my last will
    William Taylor

    At a county court held for Logan county on Tuesday the 18th August the last testiment of Wm Taylor dec'd was exhibited
 in court and proven by the oaths of Weden Arnold & Mary Arnold and ordained to be ricorded and the same stands truly 
recorded in my office.
    Test. Armistead Morehead


-Submitted Tue Jan 15 19:49:43 2002 by: Kathy Marler



ELEY, Eli
Book: A; Page: Date: May 21, 1812

    "In the name of God amen, May 21, 1812. I Eli ELEY do make this my last Will and Testament. First I resign my soul to 
God who gave it and my Body to the earth from whence it was taken to be decently buried according to the directions of my
 Executors. My worldly property I devise in the following manner (viz.) First I require my Executor to pay all my just 
debts. Secondly, I give to my well beloved wife Prudence half of my land, her choice, and half of the incomes of my stills 
during her life. I likewise give her two negro boys named Minor and Sam and two negro girls named Annaka and Read during her
 life. I likewise give her all my stock of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs and all my household furniture except what is 
otherwise devised in this my last Will and Testament during her life. Thirdly, I give and bequeath to my son Edward ELEY 
half of my land at my decease and the whole thereof at my wife's decease and one negro boy named Clark (N. B. He is only 
entitled to the two hundred acres of land I now live on) he is to have half of the income of my stills and at the decease 
of his mother is to have the whole of the stills and their funiture. Fourthly, I give to my daughter Polly Philips ELEY one
 negro boy named Jordan and a negro girl named Silvey and a bed and furniture. Fifthly, I give to my daughter Patsy BROWN 
three negro girls named Hager, Amey, Sarah. Sixthly, I give to my daughter Tabitha ELEY one negro girl named Sharlott and 
two-eights of land I hold on the ridge adjoining the two hundred acres I now live on on the Easterly one pattented, the 
others entered and surveyed, likewise a bed and furniture. Sevently, I give to my son Edward ELEY a bed and furniture.
 Eightly, I give to my wife all the remaining property I die possessed of to be at her disposal during her life and at her
 death I devise that all the property she dies possessed of, except what is otherwise devised, be divided among my children
 and my son Eli's children in the following manner. First, my son Lawrence ELEY is charged with fifty dollars and my son 
Edward ELEY is to pay one hundred dollars, my son-in-law Elisha COLLINS is to discount two hundred dollars and my son-in-law
 George BROWN is to discount one hundred dollars making in all four hundred and fifty dollars which sum is to be divided 
into four equal parts and my son Eli's children to have one share, my son-in-law Mark GILLIAM is to have one share, Polly 
Phillips ELEY one share, and Tabitha is to have one share. Then after those four shares are paid to those above named there
 is to be an equal division of the remaining undevised property giving to each of my children an equal share including Eli 
ELEY's children who are to have one share among them. I likewise nominate and appoint my wife Prudence ELEY Executrix and my
 two sons Lawrence ELEY and Edward ELEY to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed: Eli (his mark) ELEY (seal). Signed, sealed and given 
in the presence of Samuel WILSON, C. A. WILSON and Peggy WILSON .... Certification: Logan Co., KY. In a court held for Logan
 County on Monday the 18th of January 1813 the last Will and Testament of Eli ELEY, decsd., was exhibited in court and 
proven by the oaths of Samuel WILSON and C. A. WILSON and ordered to be recorded and the same together with this certificate
 stand of record in my office. Test: A. MOREHEAD.....Certificate: A copy, Test: M. B. MORTON, CLCC. * Note: 1.) Logan Co., KY. 
LW&T attached to Equity Case #EC - 62 - 1533; 2.) The mark in signature of Eli ELEY was not an X; Note: 3.) Martha "Patsy"
 ELEY married George BROWN; 4.) Anne ELEY married Elisha COLLINS; 5.) Sally ELEY married Marcus GILLIAM.


-Submitted Sat Jun 18 19:33:04 2005 by: Jan Lawson