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Woodford
County, Kentucky Will Book F – pg 13-16
I ,Tunstall Quarles, Senr., of
Woodford County and State of Kentucky, being old and
infirm, and calling to my recollection that I must
before many years depart this life, I do hereby make
this my last will and testament revoking and canceling
all other wills heretofore made and do dispose of my
estate both real and personal in the following manner (viz)
1st I do hereby will that my burial may be
made in the plan and manner that my executors may direct
and after defraying the expense of the same I do desire
and will that all my debts be punctually paid and after
satisfying the same I do dispose of the residue of my
estate as follows;
I will and desire to my wife during
her natural life the dwelling house and all the
household and
kitchen furniture I possess at the time of my decease
and all the plantation and tract of land I reside on
lying to the south of the lands now cultivated by my son
James Quarles and included in the following
boundary….Beginning upon James Stevenson’s line and
running a strait line to the corner of the fence
dividing the field of James Quarles and the small meadow
running with that line including the weaving house and
the buildings near that, thence to the fence that
separates the meadow from the Triangular field and along
that fence to Taylor’s line, also one half of the
apple orchard laying contiguous to the fence near the
weaving house.
I also give to my wife one half of
the Negroes agreeable to valuation and the division of
my Executors which I shall have in my actual possession
at my death….she being entitled to Robin, Rose, Caz,
Young, Rose and Toliver and their increase during her
natural life by the will of her father.
I do further will to my wife during her natural
life one third of all the stock of hogs, horses and
horned cattle in my possession.
I do further will that my wife have an absolute
property in the following property one gold watch, now
in her possession, one horse the choice of my stock, one
saddle and bridle, tow beds of furniture.
I do divide to my son William E. Quarles and his
heirs forever the tract of land he now resides on
containing four hundred acres agreeable to a survey made
by Richard Fox to be governed by the bounds of said
survey. I
do devise to Ambrose Quarles, my son, to him and his
heirs forever that part of the tract of land on which he
resides to be laid off in the following manner to wit;
Beginning on the mouth of Elkhorn Creek running
thence up the creek until it reaches opposite the Big
hill as it is called, thence along the top thereof a
straight line to the back west line of the survey thence
to William E. Quarles’ line including the seventy five
acres taken from the tract William E. Quarles lives on
to continue around to the beginning.
I devise to my son James Quarles
and his heirs forever the tract of land I reside on also
that part of Mrs. Walker’s alias Mrs. Stevenson’s
dower I purchased of Joseph G. Walker which will
mindfully appear by reference to his bond the said James
Quarles takes it with the encumbrance devised to his
mother in the previous part of this will and pays in
consequence of the great value of the land devised to
him
To my four granddaughters whenever
they arrive of lawful age or intermarry twelve months
thereafter, five hundred dollars each… I mean the
children of Archibald Kinkead and Anne his wife. I do will and bequeath unto my granddaughter five hundred
dollars, I mean Susanna Maria Lindsay to be paid by my
Executors in a convenient time after my decease
I will and bequeath that my sons,
William E. Quarles and Ambrose Quarles have and be
vested with the entire right of the Negroes of mine in
their possession to wit; Rachel and her children Sarah,
and Jim. I
do will that Charles and Lucy in the possession of my
son James Quarles be and the right of them are vested in
him, but they are valued and out of my estate the value
is to be allowed and three fourths paid to my sons
Tunstall Quarles and William E. Quarles and Ambrose
Quarles and the residue of my property both real and
personal is to be equally divided between my sons,
William, Ambrose, Tunstall and James.
It is my will that in conveyance of
the long and faithful services of Emanuel and Gill, his
wife, and Sarah mentioned and will to my son Ambrose
Quarles that live after the death of my wife with such
of my children as they may think proper and should they
be unable to support themselves from age and infirmity
it is my will that they receive of my Executors the sum
of twenty dollars each annually out of my estate.
It is my will that should either my
grandchildren, the daughters of Archibald and Ann
Kinkead, die before marriage in that case the legacy
that they would be entitled to by this will shall be
divided amongst Susanna Maria Lindsay and the surviving
children or their heirs and should they all die or move
then one the portion allotted to them shall be divided
and distributed to the residue or their heirs at the
time that the amount would be due to the decedent or
decedents provided they or either of the legatees the
daughter of said Archibald Kinkead and Ann had lived as
specified in the previous part of this will
I do will and bequeath to my
daughter Ann Kinkead and her heirs forever the Negro
woman Patty now in her possession.
I have given to her daughters the share I would
have been willing to give her and thinking it would be
equally satisfactory I have thought proper to give it to
her children.
I have given my son Tunstall
Quarles at different times some lands in the Green River
Country and a Negro boy Julius which I think equal to
the specific legatees divided and willed to my sons
William E. Quarles, Ambrose Quarles and James Quarles.
I have therefore thought proper to give him
nothing more than what is specified in the previous part
of this will.
I do hereby appoint my sons Tunstal
Quarles and James Quarles Executors to this my Last Will
and Testament and divest them with full power to sell
and convey all my real estate as will lands as
Negroes…also all my personal estate should they deem
it necessary to carry more completely into effect this
will except such of the real estate and Negroes and
personal property which is specifically devised and
willed.
As there may be some little
ambiguity with regard to the tract of land divided to
James Quarles it is understood that it is all the lands
I claim either of McDonnalds or Summers Military claims.
In testimony I have set my hand and seal this 12th
day of February 1817.
Tunstall Quarles
Signed and sealed in presence of
John McKinney, Junr
Samuel P. Menzies
John Watson
A Codicil to this my last will and
testament, to wit, whereby the foregoing will bearing
date 12th day of February 1817, I did will
and devise to my son William E. Quarles and his heirs
four hundred acres of land he now resides on agreeable
to a survey made by Capt. Richard Fox and to be governed
by the bounds of said survey also two Negroes (to wit)
Rachel and her child, also an interest in my real and
personal estate not otherwise disposed of now it is my
will and desire that said devise or bequeath to be
revoked and set aside and that the land, Negroes and
other property heretofore devised to said William E.
Quarles be disposed of as follows (to wit) to the
children of the said William E. Quarles and Betsey his
wife in an equal proportion to them and their heirs
forever reserving however to the said William &
Betsey his wife the use occupancy & enjoyment
thereof during their natural lives.
Further is it my will and desire that that part
of my said will which vests in my son James the rights
to two Negroes, to wit; Charles and Lucy upon certain
condition be revoked and set aside and I hereby devise
and give to my said son James the Negro man Charles to
him and his heirs forever and the Negro girl Lucy I give
and bequeath to my granddaughter Adeline Quarles,
daughter of my said son James and the increase of said
girl Lucy (if any) to be equally divided between said
Adeline and her sister Caroline to them and their heirs
forever. Further
it is my will and desire and I hereby bequeath to my
granddaughter Susanne M. Lindsay to my grandchildren,
Archiann, America and Agness and Tunstalla Kinkead,
daughters of Ann Kinkead, all the right, title and
interest I have to certain Lotts in the Town of
Frankfort in equal portions to them and their heirs
forever. In
witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
this 10th day of February 1818
Tunstall Quarles
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