Person:Abram Irvine (1)

Disambiguation

Not to be confused with Abraham Irvine (1729/32-1777), son of John Irvine and Mary Boyd. Some researchers have confused the two.

Will Transcript

Last Will and Testament of Abraham Irvine, dated January 8, 1801.

In the name of God Amen. I Abraham Irvin of the county of Mercer and State of Kentucky being in a weak and low state of health but of perfect mind and memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, and first I recommend my soul to God my Creator that gave it, and my body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian manner at the discretion of my Executors to be hereafter named, and as touching such worldly Estate as herein with it hath please God to bless me with I first direct that my Executors shall out of it pay all my Just and lawful debts and the remainder thereof I give and bequeath in manner and form following (to wit)

Item I give to my Beloved Wife two Negroes to be chosen by herself also one Horse or Mare as she shall choose with a good saddle and bridle, I allow her to be comfortably supported and maintained her life time out of the profits of the plantation I live on with the exclusive right to her own room with all its furniture and I also give to her one fourth part of all the money which may be in hand or due to me by Bond or otherwise at my decease.

Item I give to my son John one Negro to be chosen as he pleases after his mother shall have made her chose as provided above, also one Negro Boy named Sam now in his possession.

Item I give to my Daughter Sarah McDowel one Negro Boy named Tom now in her possession.

Item I give to my Daughter Nancy McMordie one Negro girl named Lucy now in her possession.

Item I give to my son William the land and plantation on which I now live except fifty acres which is to be laid off for my son John adjoining to his lines, and also direct that my son William shall afford to his mother a comfortable support during her life time or widow hood and I also direct that the .. plantation shall not be sold during the life time of my wife unless with her free and full consent and if sold with her consent that she shall have the sole use and benefit of one fourth part of the money arising from the sale thereof.

Item I give to all my Children all the remaining part of my Estate personal and real to be equally divided amongst them, and lastly I appoint my son John and my friend Samuel McDowel ... and George Caldwell ... to be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and direct and request that if any misunderstanding or dispute should unhappily arise amongst my Children respecting the execution of the foregoing will that those my Executors shall be the sole judges thereof and therby prevent an appeal to the Law. In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand this Eight day of January in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight hundred & one.

(Signed) Abraham Irvin

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John Tadloch

Michael Gash Irvin

William E Akin

1. ↑ The Irvines and their kin: revised by the author in Scotland, Ireland and England; a history of the Irvine family and their descendants. Also short sketches of their kindred, the Carlisles, McDowells, Johnstons, Maxwells, Gaults, McElroys, etc., from A.D. 373 down to the present time
   pg. 153.

   Ambram Irvine, born in Scotland, May 1725, married Mary Dean, born in Ireland, February 22, 1733. They emigrated to Rockbridge county, Virginia. Mary Dean's mother was Jane McAlister, a Scotchwoman, who assisted at the Siege of Londonderry. The Protestants were reduced to starvation, and Jane McAlister inverted the flour barrels and made the tops white with flour in order that the spies might think that article plentiful when they looked through the cracks of the weak walls.
   
   The children of Abram Irvine and Mary Dean were: John, born February 25, 1755; married Prudence Armstrong, of Mercer County, Kentucky. (The children of John and Prudence Armstrong Irvine were: Samuel, Polly, Margaret, Sally, Abram, Priscilla and Robert).
   Hans, born April 25, 1758, never married.
   Margaret Irvine, born April 25, 1762; married, first, Samuel Lapsly; second, Rev. John Lyle.
   Mary Irvine, married, first, William Adair; second, Issachar Paulding. (Her children were Alexander and William Adair).
   Anne Irvine, born November 28, 1763, married Samuel McDowell. (Their children were John, Abram, William, Joseph, Sally, Reed and Alexander).
   Abram Irvine, born August 8, 1766; married, first, Sally Henry, and second, Margaret McAfee.
   Robert Irvine, born in 1768, married Judith Glover. (Children: John, Polly, Judith, Abram D., Robert and Sarah).
   Nancy Irvine, born July 5, 1790 [s/b 1770?]; married Frank McMordie. (Children: Robert, Jane, Hans, Polly, Abram, and Margaret).
   Elizabeth Irvine, born March 20, 1772 married George Caldwell, grandfather of Mrs. Mary Caldwell Crawford, of San Antonio, Texas. (The children of Elizabeth Irvine and George Caldwell were George, Polly, Abram, Isabella, John, William and Ezra).
   Sarah Irvine, born November 21, 1774; married Joseph McDowell. (Children: Sarah, Margaret, Lucy, Charles, Caleb, and Magdalen, who is last living one of this generation, and is now Mrs. M.M. Wallace, and lives near Danville, Ky.).
   William Dean Irvine, born August 1775; never married. Was Captain of volunteers in the War of 1812; died in Natchez, Mississippi.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/29062352/person/12446404864

3.   Find A Grave.

   Abraham "Abram" Irvine
   Birth: May 9, 1725, Scotland
   Death: 1801
   Mercer County
   Kentucky, USA
   
   Abram, the son of John Irvine, with his sisters and brothers-in-law, came to Kentucky in 1787 and settled on Salt River about five miles southwest of the present location of Danville.
   
   
   Will of 8 Jan 1801, Mercer Co, Kentucky:
   
   "I, Abraham Irvin of the county of Mercer and State of Kentucky being in a weak and low state of health, but of perfect mind and memory, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament - and first, I recommend my soul to God my Creator that gave it and my body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian manner....."
   
   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46565780