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Love family: abstract of Robert Love will

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  • heirs, and to Dillard Love, my third son and to his heirs all the lands which I now own in the County of Washington in the State of Tennessee to be equally divided between the heirs of the said Thomas D. Love, deceased and the said Dillard Love and his heirs. I give, bequeath and devise to Robert C. Love and his heirs one tract of land in Scoots Creek where John Fergus formerly lived, and to Mary E. Louisa Johnson one hundred acres of land include the Burt Cabin, to include the improvement and to be run all together on the North side of the road, provided always that if the said Mary E. Louisa Johnson doth die without any issue that may have ten years, than and in that case the said one hundred acres to descend and be divided as my other property. I give, bequeath and devise to my son John B. Love the tract of two hundred acres of land where he now lives and also the tract of land ajlining below, known as the Cowan Tract, where my negroes-are living as also my interest which I may have in any lands by him purchased when the partnership as to merchandising existed in which he was a partner. I give, bequeathe and devise to the heirs of my son William C. Love now deceased, a tract of land near where her lived in Madison County in the western District of Tennessee near or joining where he lived known as the Dogwood Corner to such of his heirs as may love to have issue. I give, devise and bequeathe to my son James R. Love the tract of land where he is now living and to be butted and bounded as follows: to-wit; BEGINNING on the South bank of Richland Creek at a bunch of laurels a short distance above my mills, then running up said creek with the meanders thereof to the line of the Meeting House Tract at the old road; tnence with the new road to line of the jail and town lots on the lorth side, and thence with the line of said town lots to the Northeast corner and then on the same course until a line agreeable to the town lots will leave my Smith shop foupoles to the Southwest, thence to be continued the course of town lots until it strides the small creek at the foot of the hill, thence up said creek to a maple tree corner of land belonging to William Johnson, thence with the line of the said land to its northeast corner near a branch, thence with the other line to its southeast corner, and then till it strikes the South boundary of a tract of land conveyed to me by John Strother arn. along Bannister Turner's to a white oak its corner, thence with its other line to Richland Creek and thence with the meanders of the same to the BEGINNING, at the bunch of laurels above the mill. I give, and bequeathe to my grandson, John Patton, the son of my deceased daughter, Rebeca, a tract of land on Pigeon River at the mouth of Richland Creek and the same where my old negro Andrews is now living and to the heirs of his body lav/fully begotten, but in case he should die without any lawful issue, I then direct that it be equally divided among all my heirs, Further, I give and bequeathe to the said John Patton if he lives to have lawful issue two young negroes between ten and -S-
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