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Pat Stafford, Gittens Wills, 1729-1860 (, Dec 2008).
Page 25, Issac Gittens
1819, [RB4/62/26] Original proved will. Isaac Gittens of the parish of St. Philip. …
my just debts and funeral expenses to be paid…
Item.…to my beloved daughter Mehetabel Roach, widow of Joseph Roach…Negro slaves being fourteen in number…James and Will…Nancy Dolly andRosetta…Henry Nelson and Murrah Francis…Mandah Susan Kitty Charlotte Polly Rose and Eliza…
Item. …to my beloved wife Ann Gittens for and during her natural life…my place commonly called Gorings containing eleven acres and three quarters of an acre of land…together with the buildings thereon…slaves being eleven in number…Peter Sammy Sampsonand Tom…Prudence and Marca…George and Phill…Kitty Belle andEaster….also all and every my household furniture, plate…and…my house cattle and livestock…after her decease I give the aforesaid household furniture plate…horse cattle and livestock unto Sarah Ann Gittens and Elizabeth Gittens and the aforesaid slaves after the death of my beloved wife with the eleven acres and three quarters of land…equally divided among my children Isaac Gittens, Robert Thomas Gittens, Mehetabel Roach, Sarah Ann Gittens, Elizabeth Gittens, Frances Armstrong wife of Joseph Armstrong and Mary Sample wife of James Sample…
Item.…my place commonly called Gooding with thirty one acres and a half of land …with the buildings thereon be sold…and the money or monies…together with my crop or crops of cotton and aloes…to my daughter Mary Sample…£1000…to my son Isaac Gittens…£300…and my granddaughter Martha Martindale…£200…to my granddaughter Rebecca Catherine Oxley…£200…my grandson Samuel Morrison Evans when he shall attain the age of eighteen years …£300…should he depart his life…to my granddaughter Martha Lyder Gibson £200…my estate…to my aforesaid children Isaac Gittens, Robert Thomas Gittens, Mehetabel Roach, Sarah Ann Gittens, Elizabeth Gittens, Frances Armstrong and Mary Sample…share and share alike… Executors. Ann Gittens, my esteemed friend Abraham Roderick Brandon Esquire. 29 April 1819.
Witnesses; Thomas Briggs,Rich R. Austin, Edward Kirton, R. Greenidge.
Given at GovernmentHouse, 17 May 1819. |
