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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 parishof St. Philip. …my just debts and funeral expenses to be paid… Item.…to my beloved daughter Mehetabel Roach, widow of Joseph Roach…Negroslaves being fourteen in number…James and Will…Nancy Dolly andRosetta…Henry Nelson and Murrah Francis…Mandah Susan Kitty CharlottePolly Rose and Eliza… Item. …to my beloved wife Ann Gittens for andduring her natural life…my place commonly called Gorings containingeleven acres and three quarters of an acre of land…together with thebuildings 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 housecattle and livestock…after her decease I give the aforesaid householdfurniture plate…horse cattle and livestock unto Sarah Ann Gittens andElizabeth Gittens and the aforesaid slaves after the death of mybeloved wife with the eleven acres and three quarters of land…equallydivided among my children Isaac Gittens Robert Thomas GittensMehetabel Roach Sarah Ann Gittens Elizabeth Gittens Frances Armstrongwife of Joseph Armstrong and Mary Sample wife of James Sample… Item.…my place commonly called Gooding with thirty one acres and a half ofland …with the buildings thereon be sold…and the money ormonies…together with my crop or crops of cotton and aloes…to mydaughter Mary Sample…£1000…to my son Isaac Gittens…£300…and mygranddaughter Martha Martindale…£200…to my granddaughter RebeccaCatherine Oxley…£200…my grandson Samuel Morrison Evans when he shallattain the age of eighteen years …£300…should he depart his life…to mygranddaughter Martha Lyder Gibson £200…my estate…to my aforesaidchildren Isaac Gittens Robert Thomas Gittens Mehetabel Roach Sarah AnnGittens Elizabeth Gittens Frances Armstrong and Mary Sample…share andshare alike… Executors. Ann Gittens, my esteemed friend AbrahamRoderick Brandon Esquire. 29 April 1819. Witnesses; Thomas Briggs,Rich R. Austin, Edward Kirton, R. Greenidge. Given at GovernmentHouse, 17 May 1819. |
