SOLOMON WILHOIT WILL OF SOLOMON WILHOIT GREENE COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE GREENEVILLE, TENNESSEE WILL BOOK P--Y State of Tennessee } County of Greene } IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN: I SOLOMON WILHOIT, SR. OF GREENE COUNTY, STATE OF TENNESSEE, BEING IN THE LOW STATE OF HEALTH OF BODY, BUT OF PERFECT MIND AND MEMORY, THANKS BE TO GOD, CALLING TO MIND THAT IT IS APPOINTED FOR ALL MEN TO DIE, DO MAKE AND ORDAIN THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, THAT IS TO SAY PRINCIPALLY AND FIRST OF ALL; I GIVE AND RECOMMEND MY SOUL TO GOD THAT GAVE IT, AND MY BODY TO THE EARTH TO BE BURIED IN A DECENT AND CHRISTIAN MANNER. AND AS TOUCHING SUCH WORLDLY ESTATE WHEREWITH IT HAS PLEASED GOD TO BLESS ME WITH IN THIS LIFE; I GIVE, DEMISE AND DISPOSE OF THE SAME IN THE MANNER FOLLOWING: FIRST: I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED WIFE, CATY WILHOIT, TWO HORSE BEAST AND FIVE HEAD OF CATTLE, EIGHT HEAD OF SHEEP AND TEN HEAD OF HOGS, ALL HER CHOICE, OUT OF MY STOCK AT MY DECEASE AS ALSO MY PLANTATION AND EVERY PART THEREOF. THE MANSION HOUSE WITH ALL THE OTHERS ON THE PLANTATION AND EVERY PART THEREOF. THE MANSION HOUSE WITH ALL THE OTHERS ON THE PLANTATION TO HER SOLE USE AND BENEFIT DURING HER NATURAL LIFE, AS ALSO ALL OR AS MANY OF THE FARMING UTINCILS AS SHE THINKS NEEDFUL TO WORK THE FARM. ALSO THE LOOM WITH ALL IT'S UTINCILS AND THE WAGON WITH THE HIND GEARS AS ALSO HER SIDE SADDLE WITH THREE BEE STANDS, IF THAT MANY BE LIVING AT MY DECEASE. I ALSO GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED WIFE CATY WILHOIT, ALL MY HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE TO AND FOR HER SOLE USE AND BENEFIT DURING HER NATURAL LIFE, OUT OF WHICH SHE SHALL FURNISH THE THREE FOLLOWING FEMALES EACH A GOOD FURNISHED BED, TO WIT MY BELOVED DAUGHTERS: JEMIMA, PEGGY AND SUSANNAH WILHOIT. SECONDLY: I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED SON, SIMEON, A HORSE BEAST NOW KNOWN BY THE NAME OF DOLL, NOW RISING TWO YEARS OLD AND A RIFFLE GUN (THAT I PURCHASED OF MOSES HUGHES JUR.) WITH FIFTEEN DOLLARS TO BE PAID TO HIM WHEN HE BECOMES OF AGE, BY MY EXECUTOR IN SUCH MANNER AS IS POSSIBLE IN THIS STATE- - - - - - - - - - - - - THIRDLY: I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED SONS, BILLY AND ISAAC WILHOIT, WHEN COLLECTED OUT OF THE SALE OF MY PERSONAL OR REAL ESTATE; TO EACH OF THEM SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS TO BE PAID TO THEM BY MY EXECUTORS WHEN THEY BECOME OF AGE IN MONEY AS ABOVE- - - - - - - - - FOURTHLY: I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED DAUGHTER, JEMIMA, ONE COW WITH CALF OR ONE BY HER SIDE, OUT OF MY STOCK AT MY DECEASE AS ALSO TEN DOLLARS TO BE PAID TO HER BY MY EXECUTORS WHEN SHE BECOMES OF AGE AS ABOVE- - - - - - - - - - - - FIFTHLY: AND UNTO MY BELOVED DAUGHTERS PEGGY AND SUSANNAH WILHOIT TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS EACH, TO BE PAID TO THEM BY MY EXECUTORS WHEN THEY BECOME OF AGE AS ABOVE- - - - - - - - - SIXTHLY: I DO, FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE FIDELITY AND SERVICE OF MY BOUND MAN, HENRY, NOW A SLAVE, GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO HIM HIS FREEDOM, AFTER THE SAID HENRY HATH FAITHFULLY SERVED JACOB DYCH FOR A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS FROM THE FOURTH OF FEBRUARY 1822-AGREEABLE TO THE PURPOSE OF AN ARTICAL OF AGREEMENT NOW EXISTING BETWEEN SAID DYCH AND ME CONCERNING SAID SLAVE, HENRY, BY MY HEIRS OR EXECUTORS- - - - - - - - SEVENTHLY: ALL THE PROPERTY REMAINING AT MY DECEASE NOT SPECIFIED IN THE ABOVE IS TO BE SOLD AT PUBLICK SALE BY MY EXECUTORS AT A REASONABLE CREDIT AND WHEN COLLECTED, AND ALL MY DEBTS WITH THE LEGACY HEREIN ABOVE SPECIFIED ARE PAID, IF ANY BALANCE, IT IS TO BE DIVIDED EQUALLY AMOUNGST MY BELOVED CHILDREN, THEIR NAMES FOLLOWING: JOHN WILHOIT, BETSY CARTER, JAMES WILHOIT, PHILLIP WILHOIT, CATY WILLIAMS, SALLY STANBERRY, POLLY HAWK, SOLOMON WILHOIT, ROSSANNAH DYCH, CHRISTIANA RYMBLE, SAMUEL WILHOIT, JEMIMA WILHOIT, SIMEON WILHOIT, PEGGY WILHOIT, WILLIE WILHOIT, ISAAC W. WILHOIT, SUSANNAH WILHOIT- - - - - - EIGHTLY: AFTER THE DECEASE OF MY BELOVED WIFE, NOW CATY WILHOIT, MY PLANATATION WITH ALL OF MY REMAINING PROPERTY IS TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE BY MY EXECUTORS ON A REASONABLE CREDIT AND THE MONEY ARISING FROM SUCH SALE, WHEN COLLECTED AND ALL OTHER DEMANDS SATISFIED, TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONGST MY BELOVED CHILDREN AS BEFORE NAMED- - - - - - - - AND LASTLY- - I DO HEREBY CONSTUTE AND APPOINT MY TRUSTY FRIENDS STEPHEN BROOKS AND GEORGE WELLS, OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTMENT "NOT REQUIREING THEM TO GIVE SECURITY TO THE COSTS" HEREBY REVOKING ALL OTHER OR FORMER WILLS BY ME HERETOFORE MADE. AND WITNESS I HAVE HEREUNTO MY HAND AND SEAL THE EIGHTH DAY OF DECEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE. his SOLOMON WILHOIT mark SEAL SIGNED, SEALED PUBLISHED AND DECLARED BY THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOMON WILHOIT AS A CODICIL TO BE ANNEXED TO HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF US. SIGNED, SEALED PUBLISHED AND DECLARED BY THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOMON WILHOIT AS A CODICIL TO BE ANNEXED TO HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF US. his her GABRIEL MYERS LUCINDA CAPSHAW mark mark This information is also in Goldene Fillers Burgner's: "GREENE COUNTY, TENNESSEE WILLS, 1783-1890" [Page # 25] ISBN 0-89308-203-1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CARD CATALOG NUMBER: 81-50447 Goldene is Solomon's 2nd. great-granddaughter. This report was prepared by: Thelma Irene Waddell Wisecarver Solomon Wilhoit's 3rd. great-grandaughter 509 Mimosa Street Cleveland, N.C. 27013 [704]278-3546 I'm also Peter Ricker of Germany's 3rd. great-grandaughter. I don't know at this time what part of Germany that he came from? Solomon Wilhoit is from Siegen, Germany and is listed on Peter Ricker's Will as a witness, and I am wondering if they may have come from the same part of Germany? I would appreciate any information that anyone could give me on this. Buried at Solomon Lutheran Church Cemetery, [Also Known as Cove Creek], 8 miles South of Greeneville, Tennessee. He lived in Virginia during the war. PATROIT DEFENDER OF THE FRONTIER SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN VIRGINIA DAR # 509302 NC Army Accts. vol. 1 page 3 My National DAR # 0785256 {Thelma Irene Waddell Wisecarver}.