- Role: Heir
"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"
|