Will of Jane McNees

Date: 13 Jul 1816 to Apr 1819
Location: Harrison, Kentucky, United States
Surnames/tags: McNees McNeese

Will of Jane Jean (Claypool) McNees (1756-1819)

Transcribed from an image on ancestry website^[1]. Paragraphs and bold text have been introduced for ease of reading and were not present in the original.

“In the name of God amen I Jane McNees of the county of Harrison & state of Kentucky in old and afflicted but of perfect mind & memory & calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to be buried in a decent Christian like manner

And as touching such worldly goods as it has please God to bless me with I do dispose of the same in the manner following after all my just debts are paid (viz)

First I give to my granddaughter Elizabeth McNees twenty dollars

Secondly to Sarah McNees fifteen dollars

Thirdly to Jane McNees twenty dollars

Fourthly to John McNees twenty five dollars

Fifthly to Patsy McNees fifteen dollars

Sixthly to Anna McNees fifteen dollars

Seventhly to Abraham McNees fifteen dollars

Eighthly to Nancy McNees fifteen dollars

Ninthly to Catherine McNees fifteen dollars

The foregoing are all children of my son Abraham McNees

Tenthly to Nan McNees fifteen dollars

11thly to Anna McNees fifteen dollars

12thly to James Harvey McNees fifteen dollars

13thly to Isaac Newton McNees fifteen dollars

14thly to William Claypole McNees twenty five dollars

15thly to Lucinda McNees fifteen dollars

16thly to George Washington McNees fifteen dollars

from number ten to number sixteen both included are children of my son Alexander McNees

17thly Mary Lemmon twenty dollars and my best feather bed

18thly To John Lemmon ten dollars

19thly to David Lemmon Jun twenty dollars

20thly to Abraham Lemmon twenty dollars

The last four are children of my daughter Elizabeth Lemmon

In the first item the word fifteen was scratched out and twenty inserted before signed [?]

all my cloathing and apparel respt cloathing per the [?] given to Mary Lemmon to be equally divided between my two daughters in law Nancy McNees & Peggy McNees & all my granddaughters above named and I do hereby utter disallow revoke & disannul all and every Will or testament made by me heretofore hereby ratifying and confirming this my last Will & testament in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of July 1800 and sixteen  :Jane McNees

Witness

Josephus Perrin

Cynthia Perrin

Edna Perrin”

Harrison County April Court 1819

This Last Will & testament of Jean McNees Decd. is as produced into open court & proved before me by the oaths of Josephus Perrin & Edna Perrin…

Sources

1. ↑ "Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989"
   Harrison > Wills, Vol A-D, 1794-1942 > image 283 of 1090
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 23 March 2022)