Cuthbert COMBS senr, KY, 1815 - Will
Clarke County, KY, July 21, 1815

Therefore if either of the aforesaid individuals viz. Nancy PAYNE, Sally EVANS, Susannah RICHMOND or Cuthbert COMBS lose their negroes or any of them by the course of law desire that the same may be purchased and redelivered to their respective owners or that each of the aforesaid individuals may be compensated according to their loss of receiving negroes of equal value from amongst those I have loaned to my wife Sally COMBS

... Then I desire after the death of my wife Sally COMBS that all the aforesaid negroes I have loaned her and the increase of said negroes also the money that is coming to me after the death of my mother by a _____(?) of my brother Fielding COMBS which money I loaned to my wife Sally COMBS during her life may be equally distributed among the following legatees, viz. Betsey EDWARD, Joseph COMBS Benjamin

At a court held for Clarke County July 21, 1815 This last Will and Testament of Cuthbert COMBS senr deceased was produced in court and proven according to the law by the oath of Marquis COLMES and William CALMES witnesses thereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded and on the motion of Fielding A COMBS one of the executors who madeÖ

(Transcribed by Combs Researcher Ken Greenhalgh)

Contributed by: 'Barbara Rivas'  sayona@telepath.com
By way of: Ken Greenhalgh