Richard Windrow's Will
Will of Richard Windrow [abstract]: In the name of God amen. I Richard Windrow of Williamson County in the state of Tennessee being in health of body but considering the shortness of life & my advanced age do make this my last will and testament revoking all others that is to say first I commend my soul to almighty God who gave it in sure & certain hope of a blessed resurrection from the dead until eternal life through our lord & Saviour Jesus Christ & my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my surviving friends and with respect to my worldly goods with which it hath pleased God to bless me with I dispose of in the following manner to wit first my will & desire is that all my just debts be paid & then I give to my daughter Elizabeth Windrow one feather bed & furniture to her & her heirs forever Item I give to my daughter Sally Windrow one feather bed & furniture to her & her heirs forever. Item I give to my daughter Millinder Windrow one feather bed & furniture to her & her heirs forever Item my will is that my two sons John Windrow & Henry Windrow have and enjoy my lands equally but being (.. ?) that I give to each of my daughters, to wit, Jane Sea, Elizabeth Windrow, Nancy Brown, Sally Windrow & Millinder Windrow twenty dollars to be paid jointly by my two sons John & Henry & then on condition that they that is to say John Windrow pays fifty dollars to his five sisters to be equally divided & Henry Windrow pays fifty dollars to his five sisters to [be] equally divided. Then I give devise & bequeath to my son John Windrow one hundred and sixty acres of land joining his and the land he sold to Roswell the same to him & his heirs forever. as also I give devise & bequeath to my son Henry Windrow one hundred & sixty acres of land including the plantation where I now live the same to him & his heirs forever. Item my will and desire is that my well beloved wife Millinder Windrow have the use of my land and plantation whereon I now live with all my household and kitchen furniture not otherways disposed of my cart & grindstone & plantation tools, one mare & colt (her choice) with all my stock of cattle & hogs & corn during her natural life or widowhood and at her marriage or death my will & desire is that all my estate left to the use of my wife be equally divided between all my daughters to wit, Jane Betsey Nancy Sally & Milinder, as also one mare & colt (or filly) to them and the ir heirs forever. Finally I appoint my sons John Windrow & John Sea executors of this my last will & testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 21st day of November 1805. Richard Windrow. Signed, sealed, published in presence of G. Hill, A. Maury DeGraffenreid, William Hill. Proved in court July 1806 by Green Hill, Abram Maury DeGraffenreid. (Williamson Co TN Probate Records, vol 1, pp 24-26)