Charles SKAGGS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Will, 1815, Green County, KY. Charles Skaggs will was written on 4 February 1815 and probated on
22 January 1816. Named in will, wife Lucy, sons, Moses, Archibald,
Frederick, Thomas, daughters Rachel, Nancy, Polly, Sally, and
Sempy.

CHARLES SKAGGS WILL
9 FEBRUARY 1815
GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY
Will Book 1 pp. 137-139

In the Name of god amen, I CHARLES SKAGGS Citizen of Green County,
Kentucky considering the Mortality of human Nature and that it was
appointed for all men once to die and after committing my body to the
ground and my soul to god who gave it, I make and constitute this
instrument of writing whereunto my name is subscribed to be my last will
and testament, revoking all others. In primis, all my debts of which ther e
is but few, and none of Magnitude, are to be paid, and then whatever
there remains I will and bequeath in the following manner that is to say
first my wish and desire is that my beloved wife LUCY SKAGGS shall have th e
use and profit of my whole estate Real and personal during her Natural lif e
except such parts as I shall hereafter mention, that is to say the part of
the land and plantation whereon I now live, and whereon my son MOSES
SKAGGS Now lives, on the South side of the branch for him to have the use
and benefit of that previous to the decease of his Mother, and at her
decease to have the hold of the land the reason of my doing this is becaus e
he paid a greater part of the price that we gave for the land, though the
deed was made to me. And at the decease of my wife; my desire is to have
the whole of the land. Item first I will and bequeath to my beloved son
ARCHIBALD SKAGGS a negro girl called SuSanna. Item I will and bequeath t o
my beloved daughter RACHEL BLEVEN'S heirs one dollar. Item to my beloved
daughter NANCY MEREDITH an equal part part of my estate except such parts
as I have before mentioned and shall hereafter mention. Item I will and
bequeath, to my beloved son FREDERICK SKAGGS I will and bequeath to him
his equal part, among the other Children except such parts as is before an d
hereafter shall be mentioned. Item to my beloved daughter POLLY GRAY I
will and bequeath to her heirs one dollar. Item to my beloved daughter
SALLY ROBERTSON, I will and bequeath an equal part with the others except
the parts before and hereafter will be mentioned. Item to my beloved son
THOMAS SKAGGS I will and bequeath my Negro boy called Bob and an equal par t
with the other Children of the property before mentioned and my said son
THOMAS SKAGGS I will to be the executor to my whole estate. Item to my
beloved son MOSES SKAGGS I will bequeath my Negro man called Sepio and a
rifle gun called Sepios gun together with a equal part of the property no t
mentioned. Item to TEMPY BELCHER, wife to BERRY BELCHER I will and
bequeath to her a filly called the reggie muffin to be hers immediately
after my death. Item to NATHAN BLEVIN I will and bequeath two [word
crossed out] colts, one called Jolly and the other Tody.
In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of February
in the year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

CHARLES SKAGGS

Tetes
JAMES AKIN
CHARLES BLEVINS
CHARETY HOWEL
WM. G. OWENS
ZACHERIAH NANCE

At a County Court, held for Green County at the Courthouse in Greensburgh
on the 22nd day of January 1816. The within will of CHARLES SKAGGS Dec'd
was produced in Court and proven by the oath of
WILLIAM G. OWENS, ZACHERIAH NANCE and NATHANIEL OWENS subscribing witnesse s
to said will, and that they believed him at the time of executing the sam e
to be in his perfect mind and memory and the same was ordered to be
recorded which is done accordingly. Given under my hand this 28th day of
March 1816.
JOHN BARRET, cfc

Charles married Lucinda "Lucy" THOMPSON, daughter of John THOMPSON and Mary, about 1758 in VA. (Lucinda "Lucy" THOMPSON was born on 21 Feb 1742 in VA ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

Marr: ABT 1758 - Ninety-Six, South Carolina USA
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