Edmond Williams

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147590452/edmond-williams
:

A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans: the leaders and ..., Volume 8 By Will Thomas Hale, Dixon Lanier Merritt

http://books.google.com/books?id=QzsVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2596&lpg=PA2596&...

Pg.2596-2608

Jonathan Tipton, Jr., the youngest son of Colonel John Tipton and his wife Mary (Butler) Tipton, was born June 8, 1776, at which time his mother died. Jonathan Tipton Jr. was married twice; first to Lavina Williams, daughter of Lucretia (Adams) Williams, sister of President John Adams.

---------------------------------------------

Will of Edmund Williams

Will of Edmund Williams In the name of God AmenTerritory of the United States of America south of the river Ohio, Washington County, this sixteenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and ninety five. I Edmund Williams of the county and territory aforesaid being sensible of the mortality of my body and being of perfect mind and memory and having and do make and ordain this my last will & testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of almighty God who gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried at the discretion of my excutors and as touching such worldy estate wherewith it has been please God to bless me in this life I give, denounce and dispose of the same in the following manner & form. I give unto my beloved wife Lucretia Williams one negro woman named Dinah, one horse, bridle and saddle, one feather bed and furniture _____ and bedstead, one chest, one table and all the pewter and table furniture, two cows & calves or yearlings, two steers, ten head of hogs, four head of sheep. I also bind to my beloved wife Lucretia the following negroes to wit, Sandy & Davie with one half of the plantation I now live on during her lifetime. I give to my son Joshua Williams and Samuel Williams one negro called Will jointly and also the property that Mathew Bass owes me to be divided equally between them. I give unto my son George Williams the turning tools and joining tools and one negro named ____ after my wife's decease. Also I give unto my son Samuel Williams my land on _____ or _____ comes as purchased for them when ____ the said lines being in the whole six hundred acres it being in three two hundred acres _____. I also give unto my son Archibald Williams one cow and calf or yearling, one negro name Willaby after my wife deceased. I give to my daughter Levina Tipton or the heirs of her body lawfully begotten one negro woman named Delila. I give to may daughter Triphena Williams or the heris of her body lawfully begotten one negro girl named Chain, one horse or mare, saddle and bridle of the value of eighty three dollars, one cow and calf or yearling after my wife's decease. I give to my daugher Sarah Adams Williams one negroe girl named Milisa to her the said Sarah and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten also one cow and calf or yearling and one horse or mare, bridle and saddle of the value of eighty three dollars. I give unto my son John Lindsey Williams three hundred and thiry-eight acres of land being the lower part of a tract of land containing five hundred acres on Buffalo Creek granted to Edmund Williams by North Carolina by deed bearing date the twenty second of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty two. I also give unto the said John at his mother's decease four hundred and four acres of the land on Buffalo Creek adjoining the other land this being a part of a survey of six hundred forty acres granted to Edmund Williams by deed from the state of North Carolina bearing date the twenty two day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty two. Also thirty six acres of land lying opposite to the house on the north side of Buffalo Creek and if John should decease before he is twety one years of age without a living son lawfully begotten then the whole of the deceased John's land to ascend to Archabald Williams and any land left not willed away is to be sold at the discretion of the executors and equally divided among my children. And the money that is due Edmund Williams by Samuel Doak Williams, ____ and John ______ to be equally among my children. The aforesaid John Lindsey Williams is not to have possession of the land until he becomes of twenty-one years old. I also give unto my son John Lindsey Williams two negroes, one named Sandy and the other Davie after his mother's decease and becomes of age that is to say twenty one years old and if the John should die before he becomes of twenty one years of age or leave a lawful son then Sandy and Davie be sold by the executors and the money equally divided amongst my children.I also give my son Samuel thirty pounds of feathers, Also Archibald thirty pounds of feathers for a bed, also my daughter Triphena thirty pounds of feathers for a bed, also my daughter Sarah thirty pounds of feathers for a bed, also my son John thirty pounds of feathers for a bed. I constitute and appoint my son Joshua Williams of Buncomb County and State of NC one of my executors of this my last will and testament also my son Archabald Williams my other executor of Washington County and territory of the United States of America south of the river Ohio of this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and _____ all and any other former testaments and do ratify and confirm this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by me the said Edmund Williams as his last will & testament in presents of us the subscribers. Edmund WilliamsWilliam Davis Charles Whitson William Whitson This schedule to be a part of my last will and testament that is to say the farming untencils is to be for the use of the plantation also the crosscut saw and rifle gun and the carpenters tools and the crop for the use of the family and the horses, cattle, & the hoggs to be sold only at the discretion of the excutors , the sheep there also are to be divided amongst my children. This schedule to be adjudged to be a part and parcel of my last will and testament and that all things therein mentioned and contained be faithfully and truly performed and fully & amply in every respect as if the same were so declared and set down in my said last will & testaments. Witness my hand this sixteenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and ninety five. Edmund Williams The foregoing will was proven in court by the oathes of Wlliam Davis, Charles Whitson, & William Whitson the subscribing witnessses thereto at November sessions 1795 and ordered to be recorded. Joshua Williams and Archabald Williams qualified as excutors of the foregoing will.