Matthew Patton Will born 1740, Will of 1824
I have in front of me the Will of Matthew Patton and it reads as follows:
State of Indiana
Jefferson County
I, Donald T. Lucketter, Clerk of Circuit Court for and within the County and State aforesaid and the legal custodian of records and files thereof, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing writings to be a full, ture and correct copy of WILL
Matthew Patton
as the same appears of record in Will Book, No B at page 106-107-108 thereof of the reocrds of this office.
In witness wherof, I have herunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Madison, Indiana, this the 27th day of May 1975.Donald T. Luckett(signature)
Clerk Jefferson Circuit Court
The State of Indiana
County of JeffersonClerk's office Oct. 22, 1824
Be it remembered that Personally came before me the undersigned Clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court John Ritchey who produced the last will and testament of Mathew Patton Dec for profoo, which was duly provved by the oath of William Hamilton and Joseph Wilson who upon oath state that t hey were present when the said Testator signed and that they heard him publish the same to be his last will and testament and that they sadi William Hamilton and Joseph Wilson signed t heir names to said will in presents of the Testator, and it further appearing as specified and set forth in Said will, letters Testamentary with tthe will annexed is thereupongranted in due from of Law, where upon said will is admitted to record.
In the name od God amen, I Mathew Patton of the county of Jefferson in the State of Indiana, being weak in body but of Sound mind and memory possessing my common Judgmetns do make and ordain this my last will and Testament int he folllowing manner, viz: First of all I order t hat all my just debts and funeral expences shall be paid out of my personal estate and as to the rest of estate real and perosnal o (can't read) which I may die possessed I give, devised and bequeath in the following viz:I allow my beloved wife Jane to live in the peaciable possession and enjoyment of the plantation on whihc we now live together with son James Patton so long as my said wife Jane shall live and then Secondly I give unto my Son-in-Law Robery Ray or Ripley County Eighty Acres of land lying in the neighborhood where said Ray now lives.3rd:I give and bequeath to my Soon Oughtby Huston Patton one quarter section adjoining to George Waggoner int he above said County of Ripley (cant read)state aforesaid. 4th :I bequeath and give unto my son James the qr. r (cant read) on wh ich I now live during his natural life.5th :After my wife and my James are dead, I then allow to my son Aaron Patton now living in North CArolina, Bunkam County the Plantation and sole use and possession of forever of which I am now possessed and living on.6th : to my daughter May Long and Elizabeth Patton I give and bequeath one lot in the Township of Madision, Indiana, to said son Aaron I also give one hundred acres of land lying in North Carolina Beetree Creek in the count yof Bunkam in consideration of which he said Aaron is to pay Jane Stafford, daughter of my son Huston at the death of wife Jane one hundred fifty dollars.6th after the decease of my wife I also allow my personal property to be sold by public sale and the proceeds to be equally dividied amongst all my aforesaid children together and in like manner if there should be any money left after paying all debts and dues to any creditors and redeem.. any land that is yet to pay off, I allow said money to be equally divided between or amongst my children as aforesaid.I do hereby authorize appoint and choose John Tirchey of aforesaid 1st named County and STate to be my sole executor of this my last will and Testament in witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this the 13th dya of October 1824 signed, sealed, and delivered in the presants of us who witnessthe same at his request.
s/ Mathew Patton
Witnesses: s/ William Hamilton
s/ Jno Ritchie
s/ Joseph Wilson
The above Will appears in Will Book B, pages 106, 107 and 108, in the office of the Clerk of Jefferson County, Indiana.
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The foregoing Will has been transcribed from a certified copy of the Will of Mathew Patton appearing in Will Book B at pages 106, 107 and 108 in the office of the Clerk of Jefferson Circuit Court, Madison, Indiana, as prepared by Donald T. Luckett, Clerk, on the 27th day of May, 1975 by me, Patricia Ann Mitchell, a Notary Public of Monroe County, Indiana, my Commission Expires:January 7, 1982.
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Attached to the Will was the following:
Jefferson County Public Library
Madison, Indiana
This old book has been a keepsake my father bought it more than hundred years ago in North Carolina.It contains the record of my grandfather's age.He was born in 1740 and married in 1761 in Pennsylvania.
Margaret H. Patton, 1886
It is a dictionary of the Bible published in 2 volumes at Edinburgh.
1789 by John Brown, Minister at Haddington.3rd Edition.
Robert Rea born June7, 1762 and Agens Pattonborn Nov. 7, 1763 were married January 7th, 1786.
Children:
James Harris Rea born December 23, 1786
Samuel Rea born Feb. 19, 1790
Jane Rea born June 6, 1788
Margaret Houston Rea born Feb. 7, 1792
Silas Rea born Jan. 20, 1794
Matthew Patton Rea born Feb. 20, 1796
Joh McCrary Rea born Jan 12, 1798
Agens Sissa Rea born June 11, 1804
Martha McCrary Rea born August 20, 1806
Deaths in the Robert Rea family:
Robert Rea died Nov. 4, 1852
Nancy Rea died Dec. 29, 1854
Agnes Underwood died April 9, 1842
Jane Rea 1792 (3 yrs. of age)
James Harris Rea died July 5, 1853
Silas Rea died Aug. 1865
Matthew Rea died in November , 1867
Samuel Rea died in october 1868.
Robert Rea died in March , 1869
John M. Rea died in March 20, 1879
Christina Ferguson Rea May 31, 1899 (smudged?)
Emily Rea May 31, 1889
On a slip of paper:
Margaret H Patton die July 21, 1884
In front of book:
Matthew and Jane Patton (each of the above were born the same day in 1740)were married June 30, 1761.
Children:
James Patton born July 19, 1762
Agness Patton, Nov. 7, 1763
Aaron Patton, born Sept. 6, 1765
Mary Patton, June 28, 1767
Matthew Patton, Jan. 26, 1768
Elizabeth Patton, Dec. 14, 1771
Oughtry Houston Patton, born Oct. 17, 1772.
Newspaper clipping give death of Margaret H. Patton who died July 21, 1884 in Thorntown, Ind.where she was staying with her daughter.She came to Versailles in 1818-soon after movedd to Jeff. Co.
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