Thomas Roberts

THOMAS ROBERTS, b. Abt. 1775. Notes for THOMAS ROBERTS: Louisiana Soldiers in the War of 1812 NAME: Roberts, Thomas RANK: Private COMPANY: 12 and 13 Cons. Reg’t., La. Mil

This will was discovered in 1960 among the Estate Records of St. Helena Parish, Louisiansa. This find confirmed the research done on the family in Hawkins County, Tennessee by Mr. Prentis Price, of Rogersville, Tennessee in 1957. St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Successions, Drawer R-4 Will of George Roberts, Senior In the name of God a men I George Roberts of Hawkins county State of Tennice Being in perfect health and memory at present thanks be to god for it calling unto mind and mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed once for man to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hand of the almighty god and give it and my Body I recommend to the earth to be Buried in a decent christian manner at the discretion of my Executors hoping at the general resurection I shall receive the same again By the almighty power of --------- -p And as touching such worldy estate where with it hath pleased God to blefs me with I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and formfirst I give to my dearly Beloved wife Rhoda Roberts the land and plantation where I now live with all the moveables there to and stock of horse s cattle hogs and sheep during her widowhood and if she should mary then let her be put to her thirds and if the children Should mary then I give them some things to Begin to keep house with and keep accopmt of such things my daughter Anned Lee I give to her one dollar my son George Roberts I give him also one dollar my son John Roberts I give him likewise one dollar my son William Roberts I give him one dollar my son Elisha Roberts I give him one dollar my son Samuel Roberts I give him one dollar my daughter Milla Schim one dollar I give to my son Isaac Roberts one hundred and twenty five acres of land it being the place where he now lives and the rest of the land to be devided between Thomas Roberts and Absolom Roberts and James Roberts an Equal division Between them three so the same and Equal division of the whole at their mothers death and as for my negro woman lettis and her child Catherine to Belong to my wife as long as she lives and at her death Both to be free If my wife should dy before the child is twenty seven years of age she may give it to one of the children to have tel she is of that age and to be free. I have not left the other children one dollar for anything I have against them I have given to them their part Before ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of november in the year of our lord one thousand Eight hundred and five. Samuel Smith George Roberts (Seal) Wm. Paine On back Estate of George Roberts Last Will of George Roberts Bogue Chitto Will of George Roberts The following two documents were folded within the will: Whereas William Roberts left a will in the Hands of the Comandant that George Roberts Snr. made in his lifetime, we have By our Consent agreed to Recawl the sd. will Back in to our poseesion as we have Come on the termes, and agreed to Settle in Regard to the Estate amongst our Selves

Given under our hand this 29th day of Septembr 1809 Thomas Roberts James Roberts Isaac Roberts her Milla Chisum mark _____________________________________________ This compilation will refute many of the assertions found in a book by Emily Griffin Roberts of Terrell, Texas - "Ancestral Study of Four Families, Roberts, Griffin, Cartwright & Simpson". (1937) Mrs. Roberts believed that one, William Roberts was the father of the brothers who settled in Spanish West Florida before 1810 which is incorrect as George Roberts Sr. who made his will in 1805, was their father. Her list of brothers and sisters is also found to be incorrect. The above will had not been discovered at the time she made these assertions. _____________________________________________

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