WILL: Withers King, 1816, Bullitt County, KY ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Transcribed by: Anne Livingston livings1@aol.com Date: 25 Mar 2000 ********************************************************************** Bullitt Co. Will Book A p. 286 In the name of god Amen I Withers KING of the County of Bullitt and Commonwealth of Kentucky, being old sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed by God for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following Viz: First and principally I give my soul unto the hands of almighty god who gave it to me resting in the merit of my Savior & Redeemer Jesus Christ for pardon & Redemption of my sins at the last day & my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the direction of my Executors hereafter named and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it hath pleased almighty god to bless me with in this life. I give devise & bequeath in ---- ----- form following ToWit Item: I give to my beloved wife Sarah KING the plantation whereon she now lives and two hundred dollars to be paid by my Executors and one Cow and Calf and one Horse, four Breeding Ewes, feather bed and furniture. Item: to my Son Seth KING I have given 200 acres of Land & one negro girl by the name of Sal. One Riding Horse Item: to my son Alexander I give one hundred and seventy five acres of land whereon he now lives. One negro boy by the name of Bob & 1 Riding Horse Item: to my son Valentine KING I give one hundred and twenty five acres of land Whereon he now lives. One Negro girl named Nancy and one Horse. Item to my son Nelson KING I give one hundred and ninety acres of land which he and Seth WIGGINTON now lives on and Riding Horses, one Negro man of the name Moses Item to my son John KING I give one hundred and thirty odd not knowing exact number of acres of land which land he sold to George SPENCER. One negro boy named John. One Riding Horse. Item I give unto my son Daniel KING one hundred and thirty odd acres of land It being the same that I gave to my son John. One Negro girl by the name of Mary for the proper use of his & his heirs forever. 1 Riding Horse. Item I give unto my son William KING the same Land Management to his mothers Containing one hundred and sixty (?) acres after her death I now possess. One negro girl named ------ (Lettes?) One Riding Horse. Item to the children of my daughter Maria Ann CUNNINGHAM (in number 7) I give one hundred and fifty acres of land Whereon James CUNNINGHAM now lives during his natural life and a negro woman of the name of Nan, One riding Horse but at the day of his death the said Land shall be sold to the highest bidder for 12 months interest and the money divided between the seven children of my daughters F. A. CUNNINGHAM & my daughter Polly equally. Item: to my daughter Levicy CALDWELL two hundred acres of land, one Negro girl by the name of Lucia. One Riding Horse and Cow and Calf & ----- to my daughter Fanny NEAL I give one negro girl named Polly (? film is very dark here) and two hundred dollars to be paid by my Executors and one Riding Horse. To my youngest daughter Polly KING one negro girl by the name of Milly, one Negro girl by the name of Lucinda and four --- in Cash to be paid by my Executors. One Riding Horse -----, furniture, two herding Ewes. And last to my grandson Elijah KING being the son of Seth KING forty dollars and no more - and to my Granddaughter Sally she being the daughter of Alexander KING I give twenty dollars both of which legacies to be paid by Executors. And it is my Will that within four months after my death the whole of my estate that is not bequeathed shall be sold by my Executors after advertising in the Bairdstown paper now printed - four weeks. The property not bequeathed are as follows: Negroes Rose, Nell, Charles and Allen, Harris Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, Houses and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils and the money Received from the Sale after the legacies being paid Shall be equally divided between my Children ToWit: Seth KING, Alexander KING, Valentine KING, Nelson KING, John KING, Daniel KING, William KING, and my daughters Levicy CALDWELL and Polly KING. I do hereby Constitute my son John KING and my Son Daniel KING as my Executors Ratifying this and no others to be my last Will and testament. I do hereunto affix my hand and Seal this twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord 1816. Withers KING in the presence of Sam'l CROW Jr. Sam'l CROW Senr. Samuel CROW Jr. B. WITHERS Recorded 2 November 1818 Bullitt Co. KY Court by the oaths of Samuel CROW Snr. and Samuel CROW Jr. and William CALDWELL. Withers KING was born 20 August 1741 Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co. VA and died 1 Jun 1816 in Bullitt Co. KY. He was the son of William Arthur KING (b. 1711 Stafford Co. VA) and Elizabeth EDWARDS (b. 21 March 1738 Stafford Co. VA.) Withers m. wife Sarah ALEXANDER ca 1770 in VA - probably in Stafford or Prince Wm. Co. I do not have the year they came to Kentucky. He came with brother Valentine KING and probably others in the family - some of them went over to the area that would become Cumberland Co. KY. The brother Valentine died in Nelson Co. Nelson Co. Will Book A Will of Valentine KING: To sister Eliza OWENS a share of the profit from land bought of Patrick McGee during her life, to Eliza Crips, dau. of Nancy BRASHEAR, 200 acres on Floyds Fork during her life and after the death of above legatees the property to brother John E. KING. Balance of Estate to be divided between my mother and brothers William and Withers KING, mother's share to be divided between said brothers at her death. Executors George and Cuthbert HARRISON. Written 22 Feb 1790. Witnesses Anthony FOSTER, Paul KESTER, Cuthbert HARRISON . 23 April 1790. I have a little more on some of Wither's children: Levicy KING m. James CUNNINGHAM 18 Sep 1789 in Nelson Co. Francis Ann KING m. James CUNNINGHAM 2 May 1793 - they lived in Bullitt Co. Valentine KING m. Catherine HARRIS 2 Feb 1799 Nelson Co. WilliamKING - I have no spouse but have seen him referred to as William Rufus KING Seth KING was b. 1763 in Stafford Co. Nelson KING b. 1787 Stafford Co. m. 1st Charlotte RUSSELL of Bullitt Co. 2. Jane WIGGINTON 27 Aug 1807 at Bardstown, KY Fanny KING m. William NEILL 29 Sep 1794 Nelson Co. KY John KING m. Sarah CLIFTON 12 Jul 1792 in Nelson Co. and may be the John in the will but I am not sure. Alexander KING b. 1764 Stafford Co. married 18 Oct 1793 to Molly HALL. the daughter of David and Rachel HALL. I am trying to find his will so that I am certain of their children but the (unverified) list I have for their children is John, Nelson, Sarah, James, Elizabeth, Barbara, Frankie and Yelverton ( few Stafford families could be without their Yelverton, it seems) The use of the given name Seth is also a Stafford Co. identifyer - in this migration we also have Seth THORNSBERRY, Seth BOTTS, Seth JEWELL, Seth WIGGINTON. Much of this family seems to have straddled the Bullitt Co./Spencer Co. line. They can be found in records in both counties and had lands around Dutchman Creek and Plumb Creek area. Does anyone know the CROW connection to this family that has all those Crow men witnessing the will above? I think they were from Maryland?