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WOLFE, Charles Sr.
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Name WOLFE, Charles [1, 2] Suffix Sr. Birth Abt 1755 [1] Gender Male Death Between 1813 and 1819 [3] Will Probated May 1819 Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
[2] (written on 17 March 1813 and recorded in Book 1, p 482)
"In the name of God Amen, I Charles Wolfe of hawkins County & state of Tennessee, being very sick and weak in body, But of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto god, calling unto mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hand of almighty god that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent christian burial at the discetion [sp] of my Exceutors [sp], nothing doubting but that the general resurrection i shall receive the same again by the mighty power of god, and as touching such worldly Estate where with it has pleased god to bless me in this life, I give, demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
"First I give and bequeath to Susana my Dearly beloved wife, all my lands, Tenaments [sp], stock and Household furniture of Every Discription [sp]. also I give and bequeath To my son Jacob wolfe one good Horse. To my son phillip wolf I give one shilling sterling. To my Daughter Catherin Davis I give one shilling sterling.
"To my son peter wolf I give one shilling sterling. To my Daughter Elizabeth I give one shilling sterling. To my Daughter Hannah McGinnis one shilling sterling. To my Daughter Mary McGinnis I give one shilling sterling. To my Daughter Barbara I give one Horse and Cow and her Bed.
"To my son Charles Wolf I give one grown Horse and a Colt, one plow and one axe. To my son georg I give one grown Horse and and [sp] a Colt, one plow and one axe. I give to my well Beloved wife susana Wolfe, whom I Constitute my sole Executrix of this my last will and testament, all and singular my lands, Messuages an [sp] tennaments [sp] by her freely to possesed [sp] and Enjgded [sp]. I do hereby utterly Disalow [sp], revoke and disanull [sp] all and Every other former testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and Executors by me in any will before named, willed and bequeathed, ratifiing [sp] and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament, in witness whereof I have hereunt [sp] set my hand and seal this seventeenth Day of march in the year of our lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirteen."
"Charles Wolf, seal"
"signed, sealed, published, pronounced and Declared by the said Charles Wolfe as his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence have heretofore suscibed [sp] our names.
Archibald McCoy
Adam Wolfe
Jesse Epperson"
Age 58 years Person ID I4709 Cochrane Genealogy Last Modified 24 Apr 2025
Father WOLFE Mr. Family ID F1888 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family —?—, Susanna, b. 1759, Pennsylvania Colony, UK
d. Aft 1850 (Age 92 years) Marriage Abt 1780 [2, 3] Age at Marriage He : ~ 25 years - She : ~ 21 years. Residence 1797 Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
[3] - This area was later transferred to Hancock County, TN.
Children + 1.
WOLFE, Jacob, b. Abt 1782, North Carolina, USA
d. Yes, date unknown2.
WOLFE, Philip, b. Abt 1784 d. Yes, date unknown+ 3.
WOLFE, Peter, b. Abt 1786, Tennessee, USA
d. Yes, date unknown> 4.
WOLFE, Catherine, b. Abt 1788 d. Yes, date unknown5.
WOLFE, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1790 d. Yes, date unknown> 6.
WOLFE, Hannah, b. Abt 1793 d. Yes, date unknown+ 7.
WOLFE, Mary, b. 15 Mar 1796, Tennessee, USA
d. Yes, date unknown> 8.
WOLFE, Barbara, b. Abt 1798 d. 10 Oct 1882 (Age 84 years)+ 9.
WOLFE, Charles Jr., b. 1800, Tennessee, USA
d. Yes, date unknown+ 10.
WOLFE, George S., b. 27 Dec 1803, Tennessee, USA
d. 15 May 1873, Hancock County, Tennessee, USA
(Age 69 years)Family ID F1897 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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Notes - (Research):Charles Wolfe, will signed 17 March 1813 and proven May 1819 in Hawkins County, TN, may have been George Wolfe Sr.'s brother.
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Event Map 
Residence - 1797 - Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA 

Will Probated - (written on 17 March 1813 and recorded in Book 1, p 482) - May 1819 - Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA 
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Sources - [S1080] David B. Trimble, Book - American Origins, (San Antonio, Texas: Self, 1974.), 29 Oct 2017, p 267, 306-07.
- [S1074] Tennessee. Hawkins County., Wills - TN - Hawkins County, 21 Apr 2025, Book 1: p 482, Charles Wolfe.

will - Charles Wolfe - [S1080] David B. Trimble, Book - American Origins, (San Antonio, Texas: Self, 1974.), 29 Oct 2017, p 306-07.
- [S1080] David B. Trimble, Book - American Origins, (San Antonio, Texas: Self, 1974.), 29 Oct 2017, p 267, 306-07.

