"In the name of god, amen, this eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. I, James Handley, of the County of Washington and State of Kentucky being weak in body, but of a perfect mind and memory thanks to god and calling to mind the uncertainty of life and that it is appointed for all men to die, to make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following (to wit, I do hereby declare all and every other will and testament heretofore by me made to be null and void.) Item. I give and bequeath to my dear and loving wife the one third of the plantation on which I now live during her life to be kept in peaceable possession and at her death the land to be my son, John Handley's. Also, one gray mare ten years old, the colt she has now at her feet I give to James Stone Balis Stone's youngest son. I, also, give to my son Alexander Handley a certain quantity of land included in the following boundary (to wit, Beginning at an elm on the north bank of the Rolling Fork and running an westerly course with John Muldrough's preemption line to the mouth of a stream nearly at the lower corner of my meadow then a north course out to the ? and thence with Ewing's former Westerly to three hickorys in the bottom thence mostly south to the Beginning. I, also, give to my daughter, Sarah Handley, one gray mare foure years old this Spring and sixty dollars in money I lent to Doctor Gather. Also, ten dollars to Margaret Handley and ten to my son John Handley out of eighty dollars lent to Gaither (Gaither this time). Also, one year old black horse colt to John Handley's son, James R. Handley. Also, the loom and apparatus to be Margaret Handley's and if any money is ever got on the suit against Marples, the money to be equally divided between Margaret, Sarah and John Handley. Also, the farming tools to be left to John Handley for the benefit of the farm. I do hereby appoint my son, Alexander Handley, and John McColgan Executors to this my last will and testament. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and date above written. James [his mark] Handley, Seal Test James Handley, Junior David Kenley William [his mark] Thurmond" As the County Court begun and held for Washington County on Monday the 9th day of June 1817 the last will and testament of James Handley Senior was proven by the______ of James Handley Junior. David Kennedy and William Thurmond the subscribing witnesses therein and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of Alexander Handley and John McColgan, the Executors therein named, they having made oath and executed and acknowledged bond with security in the penalty of fifteen hundred dollars_ _ _ . Mary Handley's dower was marked July 25, 1817. Her third of the land laid between her sons, John and Alexander, on the north bank of the Rolling Fork River near the mouth of the Cane River. After James Handley's death, daughter Margaret Handley married John Hardin (Harding) March 23, 1818. Her sister, Sarah Handley, married Henry Purdy in 1826 (she was his third wife).