WILLS:  John Baker, 1808, Bracken Co., KY

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Submitted by: JRBAKERJR <JRBAKERJR@prodigy.net>
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In the Name of God Amen This second day of April in the year of our lord Eighteen
Hundred and Eight I John Baker of Bracken County & State of Kentucky Farmer being weak
in body but of perfect mind and memory, do make and ordain this my last will and
Testament That is to say I give and recommend my sould unto the hands of God that give
it my Body to the earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the descretion of
my exectutors. And as tuching my worldly estate, I give devise and dispose of the same
in the following manner and form It is my will and I do order that all my just debts &
funeral charges be paid and satisfied. And first I give and bequeath unto my sons
Aaron & Abraham Baker the plantation whereon I now live to be equally divided between
them. Also to my daughter Elizabeth Shepherd, Mary Tatman, Hannah Tatman, Rachel Love,
Otittia Baker, & to Peggy's daughter Catherine to each of these ten dollars also to my
son Arron Baker my still cap & that is all that pertains unto the said still Likewise
I desire and appoint that all my goods and chattels that remain be sold & the money
arising from the sale be equally divided among all my dear children and I hereby
appoint and constitute my sons Aaron and Abraham Baker my whole and my Exectutors of
this my last will and testament And I do hereby revoke & disallow & disannull all and
every forms or former testaments, wills, legacies and exectutors by me in any wise
before giving In testemony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and
date above written.

/s/John Baker (seal)

Signed Sealed delivered and acknowledged
in the presents of us
John H. Miller
Isaac Reese
David Livingston


Bracken County Lct.

                                    September Court 1808
The foregoing last will and testament of John Baker dec'd was executed in court and
proven by the oaths of Isaac Reese and David Livingston witnesses thereon and ordered
to be recorded which is done accordingly and the exectutors therein named to wit Aaron
and Abraham Baker being first summoned as the law directs entered into and
acknowledged.