Notes for Thomas Gilliland

Notes for Thomas Gilliland

!Baltimore Maryland Revolutionary War Patriots of Baltimore Town and Baltimore
County: Thomas Gillard enlists Fort Whetstone Point Baltimore Maryland -
11/15/1779-1/27/1780
!1779 court records of Washington Co. Pennsylvania: Thomas Gilliland buys land
from Dunn
!1780 History of Washington Co. (Buffalo tsp pg 675): Charles McRoberts land
was bounded by lands of Thomas Gilliland
!1788 Warantee of Land in Washington Co. PA: Series 3 vol 26 pg. 561; Thomas
Gilliland 348 1/2 acres "Mulberry Hill"
1789 bought 900 acres on Little Creek from Phillip Phillips & Geo May for $180
and still kept 250 acres on Nolan Creek - total of 1525 acres
!1790 Harden Co. Kentucky: Married Priscilla Huff d/o John & Sarah Dodderidge
HUFF
!1794 Land transfer, Deed Book L page 624 Washington Co. PA: from Thomas
Gilliland and his wife Priscilla, both of Kentucky, to James Brownlee land on
Buffalo Creek, "Mulberry Hill" grant
!799 Samuel Haycraft & wife to Thomas Gilliland of Ohio Co. Kentucky - 75 acres
South Branch of Bear Creek for 50 pounds; Witness Stephen Rawlings and Green
!12/12/1814 A Will Hardin Co. Kentucky Will Book 1810 - 1816:
In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Gilliand of Hardin County being of perfect
health and memory thanks be given to God, calling to mind the mortality of my
Body and knowing that 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
of all, I five and recommend my sould into the hand of Almighty God, that give
it and my body, I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian
burial at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting, but at the general
resurrection, I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as
touching such worldly estate wherewith all it hath pleased God to Bless in this
life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:
1) I give and bequeath to Priscilla, my dearly beloved wife, the one third part
of this dwelling place as long as she lives and all the moveable property, save
and except one Horse and saddle, two cows and a feather bed, which I give to my
beloved daughter, Sinaith.
Next, I give to my son, James, three hundred and seventy five acres of land,
lying and situate on the waters of Bear Creek Claylick Fork.
To my sons, Hugh and Aaron, I give four hundred acres of land of the South West
End of a nine hundred acre Survey running fifty poles wider at the upper end
than the lower lying and situate on the head of little Cliffly and that to be
equally divided between them both according to quality and quantity. To my
sons, Thomas and William, I give and bequeath the balance of the aforesaid
survey containing five hundred acres to be equally divided between them to
quality and quantity.
My daughters, Sarah Gilliland, Hannah and Mary Priscilla, Rebecca and Rachel
they have all got their shares before this time.
I give and bequeath to my son, John, two hundred and fifty acres of land after
my wifes death. It being the plantation I now live on.
Also it is my will and desire that if any of my aforesaid sons shall die
without a lawful heir, the deceased of any of them his share of land shall be
given back to the remaining brothers and equally divided amongst them.
Lastly I appoint Patrick Brown and Stephen Rollins my lawful executors and I do
hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannual all and every other former
testatments, wills, lagacies, bequests, and Executors by me in any ways before
named, willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be
my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirteen. Signed and sealed and Publickly prnounced and declared by the
said Thomas Gilliland as his last will and testament in the presence of us who
in his presence each other have hereunto subscribed our names.
Teste, Jacob Vertrees, Amos Vertrees, Thomas Vertrees, Michael Fox
At a county court began and held for Hardin County at the Court House in
Elizabethtown on Monday, the 12 day of December 1814, the within instrument of
writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Thomas Gilliland,
deceased, was produced in Court and proven by the oath of Jacob Vertrees
!Thomas buried in Stewart Cemetery - no date on stone made of sandstone - RR222
near LaRue Co. line....on orginal farm of 174 acres.