Person:Thomas Newman (42)

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THOMAS NEWMAN'S WILL, dated 23 December 1819

In the name of God amen. I, Thomas Newman of the county of Nelson, State of Kentucky, being of sound mind and memory, recommending my soul to God who gave it and my body to be decently interred in a Christian like manner, do make and ordain this my last will and testament.

FIRST, I give and bequeath to my son, Isaac Newman, 200 acres of land south side of Green River which he now lives and having paid the commonwealth for the same and permitted sum to take a patent of the Commonwealth for same.

SECONDLY, I give and bequeath to my son, Thomas Newman, 400 acres of land lying on Rough Creek which I purchased of William Love, commissioner appointed by the Grayson County to sell at public sale all the right, title and interest which Jacob Linder held in the said tract of land for said Linder bought he the same more or less.

THIRDLY, I give and bequeath to my son George Newman, 200 acres of land lying in Hardin County where he now lives and $75 to be paid by Jacob and John -- Jacob to pay $50 and John $25 to make George's deficit in land equal to their own.

FOURTHLY, I give and bequeath to my two sons, Jacob and John, after my wife's death, the plantation whereon I now live to be equally divided between them with a line running across the creek, but should any of this tract of land be taken by a better claim then in that case both of them are to divide the loss equally.

FIFTHLY, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Nancy, $225.

SIXTHLY, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Elizabeth, $225.

SEVENTHLY, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Mary, $200. (This is the daughter who married Jonathan Parker - jpb)

EIGHTHLY, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Sarah, $200. (She married Samuel Parker, brother of Jonathan - jpb)

NINTHLY, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Lydia, $200.

TENTHLY, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Rachel, $200.

ELEVENTH, the foregoing legacies reserved in money are to be paid over at the decease of my beloved wife.

TWELFTH, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife all the residue of my estate, mixed, real and personal, during her natural life and after her decease to be equally divided among all my children.

I appoint my beloved wife, Mary Newman, my executor and George and Jacob Newman, my sons, to this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills made by me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and offered my seal this 23rd day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nineteen.

[Signed] Thomas Newman (SEAL)

Signed, sealed and acknowledged in the presence of:

James Slaughter

Joseph Griggs

John Berlan

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Find A Grave.

   Thomas Newman
   BIRTH 1744
   Bohemia Acres, Cecil County, Maryland, USA
   DEATH 4 Jun 1820 (aged 75–76)
   Boston, Nelson County, Kentucky, USA
   BURIAL: Harned-Newman Cemetery
   Boston, Nelson County, Kentucky, USA
   
   Christened at St. George Protestant Episcopal in Hartford, Maryland
   
   Married Mary Cockerane 1 May 1767, Botetourt County, Virginia
   
   Son of Jonathan Newman born 1 Sep 1725, Augusta, VA and died 30 Aug 1792, Botetourt Co., VA and Martha Hawkins
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59438331/thomas-newman

2.   Genealogy.com.

   THOMAS NEWMAN (son of JONATHAN NEWMAN and MARTHA ANN HAWKINS)469, 470 was born July-30-1744 in Botetourt County, Virginia471, 472, 473, and died June-04-1820 in Lick Creek, Boston Township, Nelson County, Kentucky474.He married MARY COCKRANE on May-01-1767 in Botetourt County, Virginia474, 475, 476.
   
   n her 1986 book, Parker Pathways, Katherine Jane Parker Brown included the following information on the Newman family due to their mergence with her Parker ancestry.Supplied by Nancy Lincoln of Wasilla, Alaska, a descendant of Melinda Newman, sister of Isaac Newman.Parker Pathways pages 528 -532, copyright 1986.
   Thomas Newman was a sergeant in the Revolutionary War. He served in the infantry from Virginia. The only record found in the archives at Washington, D.C. reveal that one Jonathan Stockdale drew 94f, $17. D.7. the transaction is listed on page 69, Vol. 175.
   Notes:
   Thomas Newman's Will was made 25 December 1819 and probated 17 July 1820. He died 4 June 1820 at his home on Lick Creek in Nelson County, Kentucky. He is buried in the Harned Family Cemetery near Old Boston, Kentucky. (Christine Batts, who lives in Murray, Kentucky and is a direct descendant, has seen chunks of the broken tombstone which were being used to border a flower bed in a nearby farm yard.)
   
   https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/n/e/w/Kerry-Newman-/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0016.html