Benjamin Forsythe

Will

From http://gigatrees.com/users/home/saga/sources/S1766

Page 132-133

Forsythe Benj Will

I Benjamin Forsythe do ordai and constitute this Instrument of Writing my last will and Testemant hereby revoking all former ones In the first place it is my will and desire that all my just debts be paid as speadily as possible - secondly I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Ann Forsythe in addition to the provisions indue for her by marriage contract une black mare known by the name of Crain one bay mare known by the name of Fiddle and her present sucking calf four cows of her choice my stock of sheep and hogs two feather beds and their furniture complete and my house hold and kitchen furniture exccept beging other than above mentioned the above property to her and her Heirs forever I also gice unto her for and during her life only fifty acres of land part of the tract upon which I reside it being the place where Richard Timberlake originally settled to be laid off in a square to be bounded on two sides by the original lines of the survey and lines at right angles from them to include the quantity [?] further my will and desire and I do bequeath and devise accordingly that all the balance of my estate both real and personal not herein otherwise disposed of together with the fifty acres of land above devised to my wife be qually divided among my following children Susanah Clark wife of James Clark Newton Forsythe Caroline Forsythe and Charlott Forsythe but the said Susanna and James Clark in the division thus to be made is to be curtailed in their share the value of twelve hundred dollars which is the advancement I have already made them and the fifty acres of land above devised to my wife is devised to the four last named devisers subject to the interest I have given her in it and furthermore if my wife shall at my death be pregnant with child the said child if it to be born alive is to be considered an equal deviser in all respects with aforementioned children I do lastly constitute and appoint James Clark of Clark County my son Inlaw and my friend Daniel Duncan of Paris Executors of this my last will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of May 1818 N B in the place of the black mare crain I give my wife a sorrel mare called the mealy filley and I have parted with the black mare since writing the memorandum from which this draft was taken

Benjamin Forsythe {seal]

Teste Noah Sapp
Elijah Current Quinten Moore

Bourbon County Court June Term 1818

This last will and Testament of Benjamin Forsythe deceased was produced into court and proved according to law by the oath of Noah Sapp and Elijah Current subscribing witnesses thereto and sworn to by James Clark one of the Executors therein named and ordered to be recorded

Att Tho: B. Smith C.B.C.

References

From https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Benjamin_Forsythe_%281%29

Ardery, Julia Hoge Spencer. Kentucky records: early wills and marriages, copied from court house records by regents, historians and the state historian; old bible records and tombstone inscriptions; records from Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Daviess, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby counties. (Lexington, Kentucky: Keystone Printery, Inc., c1932), 2:114.

RANDOM NOTES FROM SUITS FILED IN OFFICE OF CIRCUIT CLERK

Adair-Wigginton Suit, Box 585-1823 [No date, but filed with other papers dated 1811]

Papers filed in suit:

- Deposition of Robert Nesbit states he came to Ky. in the spring of 1785 and that John Cook, Sr., lived where his son Isaac Cook "now lives on Flat Run." - Henry Timberlake states he came to Ky., 1790 with his father's family. - George Redmon's will filed, named --- brother-in-law, William Bruce; --- wife, Nancy; --- sons, Thomas, Charles, George, William; --- daus., Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, Sarah and John. --- Extrs.: wife and bro., William Redmon. - Written Dec. 31, 1789. Probated Nov. 1790. (Note: From will it seems his wife had daughters of their own). - Robert McClelland came to place whereon his brother, Elisha McClelland "now lives" with his father in 1784. - Robert Champ's deposition. - Benjamin Forsythe's will.

- Deposition of Mary Timberlake, aged 71 yrs., states that her husband, Richard Timberlake, decd., was half-brother of Benjamin Forsythe and that in 1790 her husband removed his family from Hanover County to Ky.

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BOURBON CO. KY WILLS AND ESTATES, 1816-1824 -- originally compiled by Charles M. Franklin, 1991. [1]

FORSYTHE, Benjamin, 4 May 1818, Will Book F p. 132, Recorded June 1818,

• Wife: Ann Forsythe,
• Dau: Susanah Clark,
• Son-in-law: James Clark,
• Son: Newton Forsythe,
• Dau: Caroline Forsythe,
• Dau: Charlott Forsythe,
• Exec: James Clark, Daniel Duncan,
• Wit: Noah Sapp, Elijah Currens, Quenten Moore.

Links

• http://bourboncoky.info/files/Wills%20and%20Estates,%20BOURBON%20KY...
• https://www.google.com/amp/s/northcarolinaroom.wordpress.com/2015/1... Adelaide Fries, in her book Forsyth County gives the fullest account of Forsyth’s family life. Regarding his early life, family tradition has it he was born sometime in the 1760’s most likely in Hanover County, Virginia to a James and Elizabeth Forsyth. He possibly came from a line of Forsyths who had their origin in Northampton County in the 1640’s. An Edmund Scarborough, Jr. transported 40 Englanders as indentured servants to the New World where one of the immigrants, John Forsith, made his home. Not long after, the Forsiths made their way to St. Martin’s Parish in Hanover County. In a couple early Hanover County land record books, there is a Benjamin Forsythe who bought and sold a few land parcels in the 1780’s, one of which was the “Scotchtown” plantation where Patrick Henry once lived.
• http://gigatrees.com/users/home/saga/sources/S1766 [tjf - Michael Letton of Isaac Forsyth's Father-in-law. Stephen Owings was John Layson's son-in-law. Benjamin Forsythe came from Virginia and is possibly an uncle of Isaac Forsythe]