Person:William Chinn (8)

Research Notes

• Not to be confused with his cousin, William Ball Chinn, son of Charles Chinn. William Ball Chinn also lived in this area of Kentucky at the same time and is usually recorded as "William B. Chinn" in the records.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Testimony of William Chinn, in Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lewis), and Bettie A. (Bettie Anne Cummings) Cook. Fayette County, Kentucky records. (Evansville, Indiana: Cook Publications, 1985-1986).

   p 146 -
   8 May 1809
   Pursuant to an Act authorizing the County Court to receive testimony concerning burned records, William CHINN came into court and made oath that his brother, Christopher CHINN, died in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the year 1786, that he read the will of deceased brother, and that he gave his wife Ann CHINN one third of his estate, real and personal, and the remaining two third to his children, which will was recorded in this County and the record thereof destroyed by the burning of the Clerk's office.

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   [Note: Original record is in Fayette County, Kentucky Order Book 2]

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Will Transcript of Elijah Chinn, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States. Loudoun County Will Book A
   p 209.

   [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 him as son of Rhoda Dent who is not yet of the proper size to attend school in 1771.]

3. ↑ Probate Record, in Bourbon County, Kentucky Deed Book A, 1786-1790.

   Date: 10 July 1787
   From: Thomas Young of Fayette Co
   To: Richard Masterson of Fayette Co.
   Type / pgs: Bargain and Sale A82, A83 & A84
   Proven in court: John Grant, William Hutchison and William Chinn
   Desc: 500 acres on the north side of the North fork of Licking creek and down same due west [Thomas Young had power of attorney dated 9/29/1785 from Willoughby Tibbs of Prince Edward Co., VA, heir of John Tibbss dec'd]