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WASHINGTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, WILLS
Abstracts from Will Book A 1770-1860
Abstracted from microfilm
A-370 WILLIAM T. ENSOR Sr: 4 Dec 1847; low state of health; wife Martha; her own daus; a horse beast to Sarah HONEYCUT and Martha BUCKINGHAM as all the other children got a horse beast and, it is my desire that each of these beloved daughters be made equal with the balance of the chn; Wm. B. ENSOR. Jr. to have land known as Barance tract lying on the stage road from Jonesborough to Blountsville;
Thos. P. ENSOR to have land where I now live joining William HAIL and Edmund HODGES; my grson George W. ENSOR to have an equal share. With Wm. BEEDLE's (BUDLE's) chn as I have raised him from 6 weeks old to the present time… also one rifle gun which I have just had stocked and a new gun lock done by Mr. GROOP (GROOSS) a gunsmith of Sullivan Co. Ex: son Thos. P. ENSOR /s/ William T. ENSOR. Sr. Wit: Hiram D. HALE. Esq,. William HALE, Proved April term 1847 by both witnesses.
