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    1. [WADE-L] Will of Elizabeth (Barker) Wade
    2. Here is the first will. I can't do them all in one day. My fingers won't let me. Barren County, Kentucky will book 3 page 2 Will dated Sept. 1822, probated Nov. term 1826 Elizabeth WADE In the name of God, Amen. I, Elizabeth WADE of Barren County in the State of Kentucky, being in perfect health of Body and of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, considering the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence, do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following: that is to say: First and principally, I commit my Soul into the hands of the Almighty God, and my body to the earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my executor hereinafter named, and after my debts and funeral charges are paid, I devise and bequeath as follows: I give and bequeath unto my son DANIEL WADE of Goochland County in the state of Virginia one dollar. Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter BETSY (who the last I heard resided in the state of Georgia) one dollar. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son OBADIAH WADE of Barren County in the state of Kentucky one dollar. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son MICHAEL WADE in the state of Virginia one dollar. Item. I give and bequeath unto the heirs of my daughter PATSY who formerly lived in the state of Virginia two shillings each- namely, William, Daniel, Elizabeth and Matilda MORRISSETT. Item. I give and bequeath unto the heirs of my daughter MILLY two shillings each, namely, Thomas, Lucy, and Patsy. Item. I give and bequeath my daughter LUCY MENLO of Barren County in the state of Kentucky one dollar. Item. I give and bequeath to my grandson THOMAS W. WADE (the eldest son of my son Obadiah WADE) all my claim, right and profits that is and hereafter would be due to me from my son Daniel WADE for the rent and use of my land during my lifetime, lying in Goochland County State of Virginia on the waters of the Tuckahoe Creek where I formerly lived- a part of which plantation I rented unto my son Daniel WADE above mentioned- and entered into an article of agreement with him, which article of agreement I put into the hands of my daughter LUCY MENLO to keep for me and some time afterward I applied for it and she said she could not find it at that time- and also that past of my plantation round about where my dwelling house stood that I left in his, the said Daniel WADE's care and use, about which party there was no writings drawn between us, but whatever it is considered that the use he has made of it be worth including the benefit he has had of the dwelling house and dairy that he has moved off the land and also five pounds that he was to collect for me from Mary RED and the price of two cows and one calf that I left with him the said Daniel WADE and also the price of my wheat fan and half dozen chairs, two flat irons and two pewter dishes that I left in the care of the said Daniel WADE my son. And for the true love and regard that I bear for my above named grandson THOMAS W. WADE which he has singularly merited by his good morals and tender care over me in my declining years, I have freely given and granted and bequeathed unto him all the property above mentioned or prices of it if it should or may have been sold made us of or destroyed (since my departure from the state of Virginia which was the year of our Lord 1807) together with the money due me for the rent and use of my land and house above named. And furthermore I do freely give grant and bequeath unto my said grandson THOMAS W. WADE all the money that is due me from my son OBADIAH WADE, namely for the Gigg or chair that I rode from Virginia to Kentucky which he sold for about forty dollars, also for a bay mare which I drove out in the Gigg which he sold for fifteen dollars, also ten dollars in cash that I lent him on my arrival at his house in the year above mentioned and also four dollars in cash that I loaned him a few years past and for two calico patterns for dresses containing seven yards each at 3 shillings per yard and also for bringing twenty negro children for him since he has been in the state of Kentucky, for which I charge him two dollars each amounting to forty dollars. And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my above named grandson Thomas W. WADE to be my sole executor of this my last will and testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament. I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this ___ day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. Elizabeth WADE Witnesses: Asa YOUNG, William YOUNG, John DEPP, Henry G. WADE. Proven in November court 1826 by Asa YOUNG and William YOUNG, attested by W. LOGAN, Clerk Hope this helps someone, Carolyn

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