Person:James Townsend (44)

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James Townsend
b.Bet abt 1730 and abt 1735
d.Bef 23 Dec 1794 Clark County, Kentucky
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  • H.  James TownsendBet abt 1730 & abt 1735 - Bef 1794
  • W.  Rhoda Ware
  1. Garrett TownsendAbt 1758 - 1827
  2. Rhoda Townsend
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Name James Townsend
Gender Male
Birth? Bet abt 1730 and abt 1735 [estimates vary]
Marriage to Rhoda Ware
Property[1] 18 May 1784 Lincoln County, Virginia (now Madison County, Kentucky)459 1/4 a on Otter Creek
Will[2] 6 Dec 1794 Clark, Kentucky, United States
Death[2] Bef 23 Dec 1794 Clark County, Kentucky[probate]
Probate[2] 23 Dec 1794 Clark, Kentucky, United States
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Will Transcript

Last Will of James Townsend page 27 Clark County, Kentucky
In the name of God, Amen, I, James Townsin of Clarke County Colony of Cainetucky, being sick but in perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortallity of my body and knowing that it is oppointed for man once to die and after death to judgment, do make this my last will and testament in the manner and form following and first it is my desire that all my just debts be first paid and then it is my desire togive the best of my estate to my beloved wife during her natural life and then to be left to my child, Rhoda Townsin and her heirs forever.
I give to my son Garrett Townsin five hundred acres of land located on orter in Matterson County to him and his heirs forever and I do appoint my beloved wife and Markham Ware my only and sole executors of this my last will and testament as witness my hand and leave this sixth day of December, one Thousand Sevin Hundred Nineyfour.
(Signed) James Townsend
Witnessed by:
Peter Goosey
Caleb Ware
Benjamin Dunniway
Samuel Clairson
References
  1. ↑ Property Record, in Jillson, Willard Rouse. Old Kentucky entries and deeds: a complete index to all of the earliest land entries, military warrants, deeds and wills of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. (Louisville, Kentucky: Standard Printing Co., 1926)
    67.

    18 May 1784 - Jas Townsend 459 1/4 acres on Otter Cr., Lincoln County, Kentucky. [2:103]

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Will Transcript of James Townsend, in Clark County, Kentucky Will Book
    1:27.
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