This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Lawson, Watson, Key Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBB.2ACI/2919 Message Board Post: Mason Co., Kentucky Will Book K Page 252 In the name of God Amen I Thomas Williams of the County of Mason and Commonwealth of Kentucky being sick and weak in body but of sound mind and disposing memory (for which I that God) and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life and being desirous to dispose of all such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give and bequeath the same in manner following that is to say I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Rebecca the farm on which I now live together with all that appertains thereto, until my younges [sic – youngest] child shall become of age that she may be provided with the means of raising and educating my children and for the same reason and the purpose I give and bequeath unto my said wife Rebecca all my personal estate, my horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs, my household and kitchen furniture together with my farming utensils for the same period of time. I further give and bequeath unto my wife Rebecca all my _____? money tog! ether with what is owing me (after paying my funeral expenses and my honest debts) and to put the same out at Interest at six per cent per annum (except what she may stand in need of for her own necessary uses.) Item I will and bequeath unto my eldest Darius Williams one hundred dollars so soon as he shall arrive at the age of twenty one years provided that he may live and stay with my wife and family and work with and for them until he shall have arrived at the aforesaid age of twenty one years. Item After my youngest child shall have arrived at the age of twenty one years, I will that an equal distribution shall be made between all my children of the aforesaid tract of land and my personal estate together with the increase thereof, which is not heretofore disposed of by this my last will (exception third of the whole which I give unto my wife Rebecca during her natural life time) and at her deceased that the remaining third be equally divided between all my children. Item I will that my father and mother Abraham Williams and Priscilla Williams have the use of the farm on which they now live during their natural lifetime without rent or any consideration whatever and at their decease that my wife have possession of said farm except my youngest child has arrived at the age of twenty one years, in which case I will that the aforesaid tract of land be divided as follows to wit that my wife Rebecca have one third of said land during her natural lifetime and that the remaining two thirds be equally divided between my children and at the decease of my wife Rebecca that the remaining third be equally divided amongst my children. And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my beloved wife Rebecca Williams and my son Darius my sol executrix and Executor of this my last will and testament by me heretofore made. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 22nd day August in the year of our lord 1835. Thomas Williams Signed sealed published and declared as and for the last will and testament of the above named Thomas Williams in presence of us William J. Lawson Eli Watson N.B. I hereby request and desire that my aforesaid Executors be admitted to administer with security. Thomas Williams Mason County Sct. October Court 1835 Last will and testament of Thomas Williams deceased was produced in Court and proved by the oaths of William S. Lawson and Eli Watson the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. Sworn to by Rebecca Williams one of the executors therein named and upon her motion It is ordered that probate thereof be granted to her in due form upon her giving security whereupon she executed and acknowledged bond with William J. Lawson as her security in the penalty of $2000 conditioned as the law requires. Attest Marshall Key Clerk Note from transcriber: Thomas Williams was the son of Abraham Williams, a Revolutionary War Pensioner from Mason County. When Abraham applied for a pension in 1832, his son Thomas gave a deposition in support of his father. In that deposition, Thomas stated that he was 44 years of age.