John Casey

  General Notes:

Will of John Casey, p. 189 Lincoln City Wills and Adm. written? Apr. 1790. Legatees Margaret, wife, children Charles, James, Agnes, Matthew. Hugh Logan ezcecutor. Witnesses: John McGill, Hanna Barry, Esther Dougherty.

But: "A transcription of John's will at the Casey genforum #4335 does not mention a son Charles and says daughter Martha (not Matthew)."

Will Book A, pages 189 and 190 Lincoln County Courthouse, Stanford, Kentucky:
"In the name of God amen I John Casey of Lincoln County and District of Kentucky being weak in body but perfect in memory thanks be to God therefor calling to mind the mortality of my body and believing it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian manner at the direction of my Executor nothing doubting at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in manner following in the first place I do order all my just debts and funeral charges to be paid and satisfied and I give and bequeath unto my beloved son WILLIAM CASEY one cow and I do give unto my best beloved wife MARGARET this plantation I now live on with all the movables I now possess and one negro boy called Dave and I do order that she shall have the full power of them while she lives and then to belong to my son JAMES and to his heirs forever and I do order that my daughters AGNESS and MARTHA shall have one cow each. I likewise constitute make and ordain my trusty friend Hugh Logan to be my whole and sole Executor of this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disavow and revoke all and every other wills and testaments in any way before named. In witness whereof I have set my hand this 28th day of April 1790.
Witnesses Present
John Magill
Hannah Barry
Ester Dougherty

Signed John Casey "his mark"

At a court held for Lincoln County the 20th day of July 1790 This will was proved by the oaths of John Magill, Hannah Barry and Ester Dougherty witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded."

John married Margaret Blackburn in 1734-1740. (Margaret Blackburn was born in 1715 in Virginia and died after 1790 in Kentucky.)