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Joseph LAWRENCE was born about 1758 in Augusta Co., VA. He died in 1801 at the age of 43 in Mercer Co., KY.95 He signed a will in Mercer Co., KY.340 Mercer Co. Will Book 2, page 230. Joseph recommends his soul to God and his body to the earth to be buried in a Christian manner. Of his worldly goods he directs tht after his just debts are paid, his wife is to receive 1/3 of his movable estate forever and 1/3 of his plantation for a period of 10 years. Then his plantation is to be sold at auction and to be equally divided between his wife Sarah, daughters Elizabeth and Nelly and his sons Robert Hall and Henry. The balances of his movable estate is to be used to maintain and educate his children. Witnesses are Solomon and Ann Lawrence, Thomas Arbuckle and William Crow.
Will book 6 in Mercer Co., KY records Joseph's inventory. Deed Book 12, page 40 records the sale of some of Joseph's land to James Birney for $3,000.
Joseph owned 200 acres of land - Lincoln Co., Deed book 2, page 276 and another 200 acres which was part of the 800 acres that was plurchased from William Fields by his father. See Deed Book 2, page 215, Mercer Co., KY.
