Tuckahoe's Collection of Sherrill Documents

WILL OF SAMUEL SHERRILL - 4 June 1800

I, Samuel SHERRILL of the County of Washington and the State of Tennessee, . . .( the rest of the first paragraph is nreadable . . .but includes the usual statements of sound mind etc.) . . .

Item: I give and bequeath to my well-beloved daughter, Catherine SHERRILL, wife of John SEVIER, Sr., a Negro wench Rachel and her young child called Sarah about 10 weeks old, which Negroes and with their ___ I give and bequeath unto Catherine Sevier and the heirs of her body forever.s

Item: I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved son, Uriah SHERRILL, one Negro man slave named Smart, (?) about thirty-five years old.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved son, John SHERRILL, a Negro boy called Jim, about three years old, the son of a wench called Violet.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved daughter, Mary JONES, the wife of Littlepage Simms, my two Negro women called Jane and Martha.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved son, George and William SHERRILL, my plantation and tract of land on which I now live containing expressed in the original grant two hundred and fifty acres and being land I purchased from John SEVIER--the same being divided in the following manner that is to say

beginning on the lower corner of the tract lying on the River Nolichucky, adjoining the tract lands of John SEVIER Sr., then running up the river ninety-one poles, thereto corner from thence to run nearly a north course or such course as will not include a greater quantity than one hundred acres which is to be formed into one division, being the lower and the one and the one adjoining next to the lands of John SEVIER, which land I allot, give and bequeath unto my son, George SHERRILL, and his heirs and assigns forever, and also together with the aforesaid land, one Negro woman named Lucy, supposed to be about forty years old.

Item: I give and bequeath all the remainder of the said tract of land lying above unto my son, William SHERILL, and his heirs and assigns forever,

and I also give and bequeath to my son, William, all my stock, horses, cows, hogs, beasts of every description that is or may be in my possession at the time of my decease.

Having given unto my son, Adam SHERRILL, two Negroes, being the proportionate part I have intended for his legacy, I now only will and bequeath unto him, the aforesaid Adam, three dollars in addition to what I have heretofore given him . . . .

He named John SEVIER, Sr. and William SHERRILL executors.

The will is dated June 4, 1800, witnessed by Benjamin Were and George Were (Weir), proved August 1800 with William SHERRILL qualifying as executor. Washington Co., Tennessee. Will Book, Vol. 1, Part One, p. 53.

This was from research by Mrs. Charles Wayland Sr., Knoxville, TN. She obtained them from Mrs. Richard W. Harris, xxxxxx, Oxford, NC. They were copied from the old Sherrill Bible in 1860 by William GRAY, grandson of Sarah SHERRILL and William GRAY.

Received from: Virginia Taylor