Boone County, KY - Wills: Sandford, Lawrence, 1827 Friday, 8 October 1999 Submitted by: lharbing@worldnet.att.net (Buddy & Linda Harbin-Grubbs) ************************************************************************* 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 ************************************************************************* WILL OF LAWRENCE SANDFORD Boone County Kentucky, Will Bk. B., pg. 311 I Lawrence Sandford of the county of Boone and state of Kentucky, being weak in body, but sound in mind memory and understanding, and knowing the certainty of death and uncertainty of human life, and being desirous to make an equitable distribution of my estate. I do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making null and void all others heretofore made by me. First. It is my will and desire that all my debts be paid as speedily as practicable, and that the debts due me and the crop I now have on hand to the fund out of which my debts are to be paid. Secondly. It is my will and desire that my children shall all have an equal proportion of my estate, and that it be equally divided among them. After deducting from my son Robert's portion three hundred and eighty six dollars it being the estimate which I have put upon the property already advanced to him, which is as follows "to wit" One black boy named Guy at $300. - 2 cows & calves at $20. One half dozen chairs at $4. 12 head of sheep at $12 - 2 beds-bedsteads and furniture at $50. And after deducting from the portion of daughter Eliza Watts, seven hundred and seventy one dollars it being the estimate which I have put upon the property already advanced to her, which is as follows (viz). One black Boy named --------(name left blank) at $300. One Black girl named ---------(left blank) at $300. One horse at $80 - 2 cows & calves at $25 - 12 head of sheep at $12 - six chairs at $11 - 2 beds - bedsteads & furniture at $50 - and after advancing to and for the benefit of each of my younger children a suffiencency to support and educate them at least as well as those of my children who are already raised and educated, as my desire is for them all to be well educated and brought up in a genteel and respectable manner. Thirdly. It is my will and desire that all my Estate both real and personal be left with and continue in the possession of my beloved wife, and that she be at liberty to manage and control it to the best advantage for the benefit of our children. And if at any time any one or more of the negroes of my estate should become ungovernable or discover a disposition to runaway my wife if she thinks it best is to be at liberty to sell or dispose of such to the best advantage and appropriate the money to the use and benefit of my children. And if my beloved wife can with convenience spare as much of my estate, it is my wish that whenever any one or all my children should arise to lawful age and get married that she would give them in property or money as may best suit an amount equal in value to those to whom I have already made advances. And in the same manner to advance to my son Robert when convenient in property or money and amount sufficient to make him equal with the amount advanced as here is stated to my daughter Eliza Watts. And if at any time my beloved wife should wish to do so she can make further division and distribution among my children, but in each and every case it is my particular desire and request that she should be careful to keep a just account among them, and have a just estimate of advance to any one of them and endeavor at all times to keep the advances and accounts of all my children as near upon an equality as she nature of the case will admit. And upon her death for each of my children or their decedent to be made equal and ??? for an equal division and distribution to take place among them of all that is remaining of my estate. And lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my beloved wife Permelia Sandford as Executrix and my friends Robert Kirtley and Willis Graves as Executors to the my last will and testament with directions that neither bond or security be required of them nor either of them by the Court granting probate thereof but that they or either of them be at liberty to act as such without. And that neither of them are ever to be held in any manner responsible for any more of my estate which has not come into the hands of the one so charged But that each of them be charged only for such part as may come into their hands individually. My intention and expectations is for the whole of my Estate at all times to remain with and in the possession of my wife and in that event the others are they to be responsible for more that actually come into their hands respectively - In testimony where of I do hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this second day of August 1827. Signed, Sealed & acknowledged in presence of Lawrence Sandford Henry Pearson Asa T. Kirtley Boone County Court September Term 1827 This last Will and Testament of Lawrence Sandford deceased was this day produced in Court is examined and proven by the oaths of Henry Pearson and Asa T. Kirtley, two subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered enter into the Court Record.