Person:Mary Dent (33)

[from the Will of Elijah Chinn, dated 22 Jan 1771, proved 11 Mar 1771. See Elijah Chinn's page for complete transcript.]

... Item I give and bequeath to RHODA DENT one bed and furniture and cow and calf, my black horse, a pewter dish, 1/2 dozn. pewter plates, two pewter basons one iron pott and one frying pan to the sd. RHODA her heirs and assigns forever.

Item I give and bequeath for the support and maintenance of WILLIAM DENT and MARY DENT children of the afd. RHODA ten barrels of Indian Corn and four hundred weight of pork yearly and every year for the next seven years to come and that the said corn and wheat be paid out of my estate to the afd. RHODA yearly for the term aforesaid provided she doth not apply the same properly towards supporting the said children but if she fail in that performance the sd. corn and wheat shall be delivered to them or paid out of their support according to the decision of my executors hereafter mentioned. I further give and bequeath to the sd. WILLIAM and MARY thirty pound of Curr. money such to be paid them out of my estate when they arrive to the full age and in case they should die before that time that the said money be paid to their mother and that my executors do put the said MARY and WILLIAM to school when they shall be of proper size for that purpose and that my said executors do pay out of my estate for four years of schooling for the said WILLIAM and three years for the said MARY also to provide them proper books and other materials for learning.

Item I give and bequeath all the residue of my estate both real and personal not already bequeathed to be equally divided between my three children - RAWLEIGH, CHRISTOPHER and ELIZABETH to them their heirs and assigns forever.

Provided that if my said three children RAWLEIGH, CHRISTOPHER and ELIZABETH should die without lawful issue that then in that case all the estate afd. be divided between the aforesaid WILLIAM and MARY DENT in the following manner viz: that all my above mentioned lands with half the negros be held and enjoyed by the said WILLIAM DENT and by the heirs of his body legally begotten and the other half of the said negros to his sister MARY and her heirs and assigns forever and that the residue of my estate be equally divided between them. ...
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[Identifies her as daughter of Rhoda Dent who is not yet of the proper size to attend school in 1771.]

...Brother Enoch died in Scott County Kentucky on the Twentieth day of July in the year of 1823 Leaving a widow whose name is Mary Bradford who Has Remained a Widow ever since and whose name was Mary Chinn before her intermariage with the said Enoch Bradford which mariage was solemnized in the County of Fayett State of Kentucky on the 1 day of Aprile 1788 at the house and resident of John Randell the brother in law of the said Mary Bradford, as declarant well recollects of being at said Mariage that declarant has resided in the State of Kentucky 61 years past Fifty two years of which time he has resided in Scott County in said State and all said time within One half mile of the residence of said Widow Mary Bradford ...

... Enoch [Bradford] married (2) April, 1788, Mrs. Mary (Metcalf) Chinn, "Sister of Governor Metcalf of Kentucky." ...
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[cos1776 Note of Caution: This is not wholly correct. Mary was a step-sister to Gov. Metcalfe, as they shared the same mother, but Mary's maiden name was not Metcalfe and there is no proof that she had been previously married before she married Enoch Bradford.]