“Be it remembered that at a Court opened and held by the justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Roane at the Courthouse in Kingston on the 3rd Monday of March 1809 The following Probate of the last Will and Testament of WILLIAM KING deceased with the attestation of JOHN CAMPBELL said to be Clerk of WASHINGTON COUNTY in the STATE OF VIRGINIA under his hand and seal of office accompanied with the certificate of ROBERT CAMPBELL as presiding justice of said County were produced in open Court and ordered by the Court to be Recorded”<\/p>\n
“Virginia to wit. At a Court held for Washington County the 20th day of December 1808.<\/p>\n
The Last Will & Testament of WILLIAM KING deceased was exhibited into Open Court and proved by the Oath of WILLIAM D. NEILSON one of the Subscribing Witnesses thereto who further made oath that he saw JOHN DOHERTY the other Subscribing witness sign his nae thereto as a Witness at the request of the said WILLIAM KING. The said DOHERTY if living resides in the MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY about a thousand miles from this place, and that the said Will except the signatures of the Witnesses is entirely in the hand Writing of the said WILLIAM KING The Testator. Further that the Codicil thereto appointing JAMES KING & WILLIAM TRIGG Executors and dated the third day of March one thousand eight hundred & six is also in the handwriting of WILLIAM KING the Testator. The Court, having decided the evidence was sufficient to prove the validity of the instrument, ordered that it be recorded. “WILLIAM TRIGG and JAMES KING took the oath of an Executor prescribed by law and intered into and acknowledged their bond in the sum of ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS with the following as securities:<\/p>\n
Robert Craig, Junr.
\nThomas Tate
\nRobert Delap
\nJohn Apperson
\nJoseph Cole
\nRobert White
\nBazill Talbutt
\nJohhn Cole
\nThomas Moffitt
\nJoshuah Burk
\nJohn Mitchell
\nJacob Baker
\nJohn McCoormick
\nRobert Craig
\nJohn Athey
\nJohn Goodson
\nPeter Clark
\nJohn Buckhannon
\nJames King, Sen’r
\nSamuel Meek
\nSamuel Glenn
\nWilliam Duff
\nRufus Morgan
\n James Langley
\nWilliam Jones
\nBenjamin Estill
\nSamuel Vance
\nJames Bryant
\nMichael Shaver
\nGerrand T. Conn
\nJames Thompson
\nEnoch Schoolfield
\nGeorge Spangler
\nWilliam M. Henry
\nMichael Deeehart
\nSilbourn S. Henderson
\nJohn I. Trigg
\nDavid Smith
\nRobert Dukes
\nWilliam D. Neilson
\nEarl B. Clap
\nJacob Long
\nDonnally Findlay
\nWelcome Martin
\nRobert McCulloch
\nThomas Thornburgh
\nMatthew Willoughby
\nJames Keys
\nJohn McCullock
\nJohn Williamson
\nWilliam Grey
\nJames Lyon
\nAlexander Hamilton
\nBenjamin Langley
\nJacob Jungle
\nRobert Huston
\nReuben Bradley
\nValentine Baugh
\nJoseph Miller
\nCharles Tate
\nPotters O. Clayton
\nWilliam Poston
\nPeter Scott
\nBenjamin Clark
\nWilliam King<\/p>\n
JOHN CAMPBELL, Clerk of WASHINGTON COUNTY, VA, certified that the above true copy.<\/p>\n
24 Dec 1809
\nby JOHN CAMPBELL<\/p>\n
Thanks to Jim Mitchell for the photocopy of the typewritten copy of this document.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Be it remembered that at a Court opened and held by the justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Roane at the Courthouse in Kingston on the 3rd Monday of March 1809 The following Probate of the last Will and Testament of WILLIAM KING deceased with the attestation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,1],"tags":[1151,1152,1655],"class_list":["post-9765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mitchell-line","category-mitchell-photos","category-uncategorized","tag-john-mitchell","tag-robert-craig","tag-robert-craig-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}