Person:Charles Skaggs (4)

Will Transcript

In the Name of god amen, I CHARLES SKAGGS Citizen of Green County, Kentucky considering the Mortality of human Nature and that it was appointed for all men once to die and after committing my body to the ground and my soul to god who gave it, I make and constitute this instrument of writing whereunto my name is subscribed to be my last will and testament, revoking all others.

In primis, all my debts of which there is but few, and none of Magnitude, are to be paid, and then whatever there remains I will and bequeath in the following manner that is to say first my wish and desire is that my beloved wife LUCY SKAGGS shall have the use and profit of my whole estate Real and personal during her Natural life except such parts as I shall hereafter mention, that is to say the part of the land and plantation whereon I now live, and whereon my son MOSES SKAGGS Now lives, on the South side of the branch for him to have the use and benefit of that previous to the decease of his Mother, and at her decease to have the hold of the land the reason of my doing this is because he paid a greater part of the price that we gave for the land, though the deed was made to me. And at the decease of my wife; my desire is to have the whole of the land.

Item first I will and bequeath to my beloved son ARCHIBALD SKAGGS a negro girl called SuSanna. Item I will and bequeath to my beloved daughter RACHEL BLEVENS heirs one dollar.

Item to my beloved daughter NANCY MEREDITH an equal part part of my estate except such parts as I have before mentioned and shall hereafter mention.

Item I will and bequeath, to my beloved son FREDERICK SKAGGS I will and bequeath to him his equal part, among the other Children except such parts as is before and hereafter shall be mentioned.

Item to my beloved daughter POLLY GRAY I will and bequeath to her heirs one dollar. Item to my beloved daughter SALLY ROBERTSON, I will and bequeath an equal part with the others except the parts before and hereafter will be mentioned.

Item to my beloved son THOMAS SKAGGS I will and bequeath my Negro boy called Bob and an equal part with the other Children of the property before mentioned and my said son THOMAS SKAGGS I will to be the executor to my whole estate.

Item to my beloved son MOSES SKAGGS I will bequeath my Negro man called Sepio and a rifle gun called Sepios gun together with a equal part of the property not mentioned.

Item to TEMPY BELCHER, wife to BERRY BELCHER I will and bequeath to her a filly called the reggie muffin to be hers immediately after my death.

Item to NATHAN BLEVIN I will and bequeath two [word crossed out] colts, one called Jolly and the other Tody.

In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of February inthe year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

(Signed) CHARLES SKAGGS

Tetes

JAMES AKIN

CHARLES BLEVINS

CHARETY HOWEL

WM. G. OWENS,Br.

ZACHERIAH NANCE

At a County Court, held for Green County at the Courthouse in Greensburgh on the 22nd day of January 1816. The within will of CHARLES SKAGGS Dec'd was produced in Court and proven by the oath of WILLIAM G. OWENS, ZACHERIAH NANCE and NATHANIEL OWENS subscribing witnesses to said will, and that they believed him at the time of executing the same to be in his perfect mind and memory and the same was ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly. Given under my hand this 28th day of March 1816.

JOHN BARRET, cfc

Records in Virginia

• 1767 - Charles Skaggs listed on Pittsylvania County Virginia tithables with John Skaggs and Zachariah Skaggs
• 1771 May 5 - Charles Skaggs defendant in Botetourt County Court, page 121 verdict in favor of
• 1773 September - Charles Skaggs Fincastle County Court witness
• 1773 September - Charles Skaggs Fincastle County Court on jury
• 1773 September - Charles Skaggs Fincastle County Court appointed to appraise estate of Peter Allen
• 1773 September - Charles Skaggs and Henry Skaggs Fincastle County Court appointed to veiw road
• 1774 March - Charles Skaggs and Henry Skaggs Fincastle County Court witness
• 1777 - Charles Skaggs listed on Montgomery County Virginia tithables_
• 1779 September - Charles Skaggs in court Montgomery County, security James McDonald
• 1779 September - Charles Skaggs security for John Despain
• 1779 September - Charles Skaggs and Henry Skaggs in court, 169 lbs.
• 1783 September - State of Virginia pays Charles Skaggs 120 lbs.
• 1787 June 19 - Charles Skaggs grantor Book 1, page 11, grantee Shadrack and Glades White on Clinch River, Russell County Virginia_
• 1791 April 2 - Charles Skaggs and wife Lucy Grantor of 290 acres Clinch River, Russell County Virginia Grantee William Horton Deed Book 1, Page 155

Records in Kentucky

• Page 23: Deed Book 7, pp 114-115, Green Co., KY 3/16/1815: Charles Skaggs to Moses Skaggs -- 5pounds -- tract on Slash Branch, including the plantation whereon he now lives -- 23 0acres -- upper end of Skaggs Meadow -- corner of William Philpot's survey -- Skaggs line --. Signed: Charles Skaggs; Wit: Berry Belcher, Stephen Skaggs; Green Co. SCT: proven by Berry Belcher and Stephen Skaggs on 6/24/1815; recorded: 6/30/1815 by John Barret, CGC.: [Source: Green Co., KY Abstracts of Deed, Book 7, 1814-1817, by Barbara Wright]

• Page 23: DB7, pp 115-116, Green Co., KY 6/24/1815: Lucy Skaggs, wife of Charles Skaggs, relinquishes to Moses Skaggs all her title to a tract of 230 acres -- Skaggs meadow -- corner of William Philpot's survey -- Skaggs line -- the Barren's --. Signed: Lucy (x) Skaggs; Green Co SCT: Relinquishment of dower was on 6/24/1815; recorded 6/30/1815 by John Barret, CGC.

• Page 25: DB7, pp 126-128, Green Co., KY 12/18/1814: Charles Skaggs to William Philpot -- $90 -- 20 acres on Slash Branch of Little Brush Creek -- dividing line between Skagg's and Philpot's old survey. Signed: Charles Skaggs; Wit: Nath'l Owens, Andrew Chaudoin, Wm. Philpot, Jr. Green Co. SCT: Proven 7/24/1815 by Andrew Chaudoin and Wm. Philpot, Jr.; recorded 7/25/11815 by John Barret, CGC. :

• Page 27: DB7, pp 137, Green Co. KY 3/7/1815: Charles Skaggs of Green Co. to Moses Skaggs -- a negro man named Less -- $1.00. Signed: Charles Skaggs; Wit: Archibald Skaggs, Wm. Skaggs; Green Co. SCT: proven 8/9/1815 by witnesses and recorded by John Barret, CGC. :

p. 34: DB7, pp 166-167, Green Co. KY 3/5/1815: Charles Skaggs of Green Co. to Archibald Skaggs of Adair Co, KY -- negro girl, Sury, about 14 years of age -- $1.00. Signed: Charles Skaggs; Wit: Nath'l Owens, Wm Skaggs; Green Co. SCT: Bill of sale proven by Wm Skaggs on 8/29/1815 and by Nath'l Owens on 10/12/1815; recorded 10/13/1815 by John Barret

Historical Marker - First Long Hunters 1765

N 36° 19.343 W 086° 41.411 16S E 527809 N 4019750 Marker Number: 3A 140 Tennessee, USA "Henry Skaggs, his brothers, Charles and Richard, and Joseph Drake and a group of other long hunters were the first Anglo-Saxons to explore this area. They made their campsite at Mansker's Lick, opening the doorway for the future settlement of Goodlettsville and Middle Tennessee."

1.   The Archibald Thompson Diary.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Charles Skaggs, in Find A Grave.
3.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

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