RE: William Mays, senior, heirs:
From deed book C page.328 Cumberland
County, KY, records:
KNOW ALI, MEN
BY THESE PRESENT6 THAT WE SAMUEL BIGGERSTAFF and Mary Biggerstaff, late Mary
Mays widow and relict of William Mays, deceased of the County of Cumberland and
State of Kentucky, for and in consideration of making a final settlement of the
legatees of the said William Mays,deceased, and in consideration of certain
personal property put into our possession and in conjunction with my present
husband I and himself do do hereby agree that the said Legetees, namely, Thomas
Johnson and Joamia, his wife, formerly Joami Mays, Froederick Mays, Moses Cook
and Mary, his wife, formerly Mary Mays, James McCarty and Sarah, his wife,
formerly Sarah Mays, William Mays, and Susannah, his wife, daughter of said
William Mays, deceased, shall sell and dispose of all the tract of land which
was the property of the said William Mays, deceased, lying on the water of
Marrowbone, in the county and state aforesaid, and contain whatever may be
included in the lines after Pierce Wade's land is taken out of the same it
being originally a grant for 200 acres, and we, the said Samuel Biggerstaff and
Mary, his wife for ourselves and heirs do hereby relinquish and quit claim to
all and every part of said land, either under the will of my former husband or
whatever may be coming to me by the laws of the Common wealth, provided should
the will be broken, and the said Samuel Biggerstaff do also join the same,
hereby ratifying the whole and the said Biggerstaff do for myself my heirs and
hereby forever quit claim to all and every part of the Dowery wright, of my
present wife in and to the same; she and myself conjointly having hereto agreed
the pecuniary lagacies given to Sarah McCarty and Mary Cook in the will of the
said Mays deceased, are herein accepted and to be fully complied with. Signed
Saml Biggerstaff (seal), Mary x Biggerstaff (seal)
In witness whereof we have hereunto set
our hands and seal this 28th day of January 1818:
Teste:Jacob
Lollar, John Biggerstaff
The above deed was certified and
recorded 20 1818 by Milton King, D.C.
Deed book C page 329 has a power of
attorney from Frederick May of Claybourn Co., Tenn., appointing Thomas Johnson
of Cumberland Co., Ky. to collect his share of the estate.
Dated January 15 1818 - Witness; Adam Fitterington; Thos. S. Ellison