Bullitt Co. Will Book A  p. 286

In the name of god Amen I Withers KING of the County of Bullitt and Commonwealth of 
Kentucky, being old sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind 
the mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed by God for all men once to die, do 
make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following  Viz:

First and principally I give my soul unto the hands of almighty god who gave it to me 
resting in the merit of my Savior & Redeemer Jesus Christ for pardon & Redemption of my sins 
at the last day & my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the direction of my 
Executors hereafter named and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it hath pleased 
almighty god to bless me with in this life.  I give devise & bequeath in ----  ----- form 
following ToWit

Item: I give to my beloved wife Sarah KING the plantation whereon she now lives and two 
hundred dollars to be paid by my Executors and one Cow and Calf and one Horse, four Breeding 
Ewes, feather bed and furniture.

Item:  to my Son Seth KING I have given 200 acres of Land & one negro girl by the name of 
Sal.  One Riding Horse

Item:  to my son Alexander I give one hundred and seventy five acres of land whereon he now 
lives.  One negro boy by the name of Bob & 1 Riding Horse

Item:  to my son Valentine KING I give one hundred and twenty five  acres of land Whereon he 
now lives.  One Negro girl named Nancy and one Horse.

Item: to my son Nelson KING I give one hundred and ninety acres of land which he and Seth 
WIGGINTON now lives on and Riding Horses, one Negro man of the name  Moses

Item:  to my son John KING I give one hundred and thirty odd not knowing exact number of 
acres of land which land he sold to George SPENCER. One negro boy  named John.  One Riding 
Horse.

Item: I give unto my son Daniel KING one hundred and thirty odd acres of land It being the 
same that I gave to my son John.  One Negro girl by the name of Mary for the proper use of 
his & his heirs forever.  1 Riding Horse.

Item: I give unto my son William KING the same Land Management to his mothers Containing one 
hundred and  sixty (?) acres after her death I now possess.  One negro girl named  ------   
(Lettes?) One Riding Horse.

Item: to the children of my daughter Maria Ann CUNNINGHAM (in number 7) I give one hundred 
and fifty acres of land Whereon James CUNNINGHAM now lives during his natural life and a 
negro woman of the name of Nan, One riding Horse but at the day of his death the said Land 
shall be sold to the highest bidder for 12 months interest and the money divided between the 
seven children of my daughters F. A. CUNNINGHAM & my daughter Polly equally.

Item: to my daughter Levicy CALDWELL two hundred acres of land, one Negro girl by the name 
of Lucia.  One Riding Horse and Cow and Calf & ----- 

Item:to my daughter Fanny NEAL I give one negro girl named Polly ? and 
two hundred dollars to be paid by my Executors and one Riding Horse.

To my youngest daughter Polly KING one negro girl by the name of Milly, one Negro girl by 
the name of Lucinda and four --- in Cash to be paid by my Executors.  One Riding Horse 
-----, furniture, two herding Ewes.

And last to my grandson Elijah KING being  the son of Seth KING forty dollars and no more - 
and to my Granddaughter Sally she being the daughter of Alexander KING I give twenty dollars 
both of which legacies to be paid by Executors.

And it is my Will that within four months after my death the whole of my estate that is not 
bequeathed shall be sold by my Executors after advertising in the Bairdstown paper now 
printed - four weeks.  The property not bequeathed are as follows:  

Negroes Rose, Nell, Charles and Allen, Harris

Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, Houses and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils and the money 
Received from the Sale after the legacies being paid Shall be equally divided between my 
Children ToWit: Seth KING, Alexander KING, Valentine KING, Nelson KING, John KING, Daniel 
KING, William KING, and my daughters Levicy CALDWELL and Polly KING.

I do hereby Constitute my son John KING and my Son Daniel KING as my Executors Ratifying 
this and no others to be my last Will and testament.  I do hereunto affix my hand and Seal 
this twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord 1816.

Withers KING

in the presence of 
Sam'l CROW Jr.
Sam'l CROW Senr.
Samuel CROW Jr.
B. WITHERS

Recorded 2 November 1818 Bullitt Co. KY Court by the oaths of Samuel CROW Snr. and Samuel 
CROW Jr. and William CALDWELL.

OTHER INFO

Withers KING was born 20 August 1741  Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co. VA and died 1 Jun 
1816 in Bullitt Co. KY.     He was the son of William Arthur KING (b. 1711 Stafford Co. VA) 
and Elizabeth EDWARDS (b. 21 March 1738 Stafford Co. VA.)

Withers m. wife Sarah ALEXANDER ca 1770  in VA - probably in Stafford or Prince Wm. Co.  I 
do not have the year they came to Kentucky.  He came with brother Valentine KING and 
probably others in the family - some of them went over to the area that  would become 
Cumberland Co. KY.  The brother Valentine died in Nelson Co.

Nelson Co. Will Book A  
Will of Valentine KING:  To sister Eliza OWENS a share of the profit from land bought of 
Patrick McGee during her life, to Eliza Crips, dau. of Nancy BRASHEAR, 200 acres on Floyds 
Fork during her life and after the death of above legatees the property to brother John E. 
KING.  Balance of Estate to be divided between my mother and brothers William and Withers 
KING, mother's share to be divided between said brothers at her death.  Executors George and 
Cuthbert HARRISON.  Written 22 Feb 1790.  Witnesses Anthony FOSTER, Paul KESTER, Cuthbert 
HARRISON .  23 April 1790.

I have a little more on some of Wither's children:

Levicy KING m. James CUNNINGHAM 18 Sep 1789 in Nelson Co.
Francis Ann KING m. James CUNNINGHAM 2 May 1793 - they lived in Bullitt Co.
Valentine KING  m. Catherine HARRIS 2 Feb 1799 Nelson Co.
WilliamKING - I have no spouse but have seen him referred to as William Rufus KING
Seth KING was b. 1763 in Stafford Co.
Nelson KING b. 1787 Stafford Co. m. Jane WIGGINTON 27 Aug 1807 at Bardstown, KY
Fanny KING  m. William NEILL(or NEAL)   29 Sep 1794 Nelson Co. KY
John KING m. Sarah CLIFTON 12 Jul 1792 in Nelson Co. and may be the John in the will but I 
am not sure.

Alexander  KING b. 1764 Stafford Co.   married 18 Oct 1793 to Molly HALL.   the daughter of 
David and Rachel HALL.  No record of a will but I am almost certain that their children 
(unverified) are John, Nelson, Sarah, James,Elizabeth, Barbara, Frankie  and Yelverton 

Much of this family seems to have straddled the Bullitt Co./Spencer Co. line. 
 They can be found in records in both counties and had lands around Dutchman 
Creek and Plumb Creek area.

 

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