Dear Subscriber's, (I tried twice to send this note (with a file attached) to the list and the note failed to come back to me. So, I will assume the file I attached caused a problem and I will try it this way.) I am Burt Crosswhite of McAlester, OK, a descendent (4th, perhaps 5th, gt.grandson) of Abraham Crosthwait and 3rd gt. grandson of George Crosswhite, b. May 2, 1772, of Carter Co., TN. For those of you who might be interested, and several have asked for this information, I am sending along two items: (1) A typed version of Abraham Crosthwait's will, and; (2) a court record listing Abraham Crosswhite and his son, or grandson, George Crosswhite as members serving on a Jury together. I will welcome any information any of you can provide on the descendents of George Crosswhite, particularly John Melvin Crosswhite, Sr., and Abraham Lincoln Crosswhite - his son and grandson. Abraham L. Crosswhite was my gt. grandfather. I will, of course, be most happy to share information I have. The transcription of Abraham's will is best effort, and was sent to me by several people. This one by Frank Crosswhite. I have a scanned *.bmp image of the original, or a copy of the original, sent to me by another individual. The will appears to have been folded and refolded many times. According to Mrs. Bettye Morley, who was with the Johnson County, TN Historical Society until she retired, the will was found by Lucille Loyd Shell of Oklahoma. Mrs. Morley told me the will was not probated. TRANSCRIPTION OF WILL OF ABRAHAM CROSWHIT: [top cut off] [twenty] sixth day of December, 180l. I Abraham Croswhit of Green County and State of Tennessee being low of body but in perfect mind and of a good memory do ordain this my last will and testament witch is as follows. In the first place I do give and bequeath my sole to God who gave it me and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath plesed God to bless me with in this life I do give and dispose of in the following manner and form, that is I do give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Croswhit my part of the land on witch I now live and all of my other property without exception to her self for her own personal use forever and it is my will that she pays out of the movable property one dolar to etch legatee, that is to say, Sarey Moser, John Croswhit, Milley Wheeler, Lucy McRunnels, Poly Fillips, [French Ilber,?], George Croswhit, I leve one dolar to etch. Item, it is my will that John Slaughter be paid one dolar out of my estate. Item, I do make and ordain my beloved wife and Joseph Porter and John Carder to be my sole executors. This I declere to be my last will disanulling all other wills and [cut off here] hand and seal this day and date. Abraham Croswhit teste Samuel Gragg Joseph Porter Elizabeth Porter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Morley sent me the information below regarding Abraham and George Crosswhite: Feburary 25, 1794 (From Carter County, TN Court Records) "Ordered by the Court that Benjamin Culbertson, John Stone, Wm. Jackson, Stephen Wheeler, Reuben Thornton, Abraham Crosswhite, Geo. Crosswhite, John Gaines, Wm. Dannary, Thomas Whiteson, John Richardson, Matthais Allison, and Julias Duggard, be Jury to view and lay out a road from the Roans Creek Waggon road though Cobbs Creeke, into Little Doe to the head of the Laruel Fork of _________..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I typed the above exactly as it appeared on the sheet she sent to me. (I am also descended from Julius Duggard (Dugger) listed on this jury.) Regards, Burt Crosswhite