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SAMUEL KIMBROUGH

Submitted by KAY WITHERS

WILL OF SAMUEL KIMBROUGH, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY. 1810

I, SAMUEL KIMBROUGH, THE COUNTY OF NICHOLAS, BEING WEAK OF BODY, BUT OF SOUND MIND AND MEMORY DO MAKE AND CONSTITUE AND ORDAIN THE FOLLOWING WRITING TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

ITEM: I GIVE AND DEVISE TO MY BELOVED WIFE CARY KIMBROUGH THE UNMOLESTED USE OF MY TWO NEGROS- TO WIT, MOSES AND EZEKIEL, DURING HER LIFE I ALSO GIVE TO MY SAID WIFE CARY ONE GOOD FEATHER BED AND FURNITURE TO HER AND HEIRS FOREVER.

ITEM: I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY SONS JOHN KIMBROUGH AND RICHARD KIMBROUGH ONE DOLLAR EACH.

ITEM: I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY DAUGHTER BETSY BAKER ONE DOLLAR.

ITEM: I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY SON ROBERT H. KIMBROUGH MY RIDING HORSE , TWO COWS AND ALL MY CORN ON THE PLANTATION I FORMERLY LIVED ON ( THAT IS TO SAY THE PLACE JAMES CLANCEY RENTED FROM ME.

ITEM: THE RESIDUE OF MY ESTATE I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO WILLIAM KIMBROUGH AND SALLY BARLOW AND SUSANNAH JONES, BUT MY WILL IS THAT MY SON WILLIAM KIMBROUGH BE ENTITLED TO TWO SHARES AND SALLY BARLOW AND SUSANNAH JONES TO ONE SHARE EACH. I DO HEREBY CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT MY ---------------- WILLIAM BARLOW AND WILLIAM KIMBROUGH EXECUTORS OF MY ESTATE. THUS DECLARING IT TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT WHEREOF I HAVE HERETO SET MY HAND THIS TWELFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1810.

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SAMUEL X KIMBROUGH

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WITNESSES

JOHN COLLIER

JOHN WEST

Descendants & Notes for Samuel Kimbrough

1. SAMUEL⁴ KIMBROUGH (BRADLEY³, JOHN², JOHN "THE COLONIST "¹) was born Abt. 1738 in HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, and died 10 Feb 1810 in NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY.. He married (2) SARAH "CARY" THOMPSON Abt. 1753.

Notes for SAMUEL KIMBROUGH:

[Brøderbund Family Archive #311, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1790, Date of Import: Oct 8, 1996, Internal Ref. #1.311.1.1593.37]

Individual: Kimbrough, Samuel

County/State: Bourbon Co., KY

Year: 1791

Census type code: Tax List

[Brøderbund Family Archive #311, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1790, Date of Import: Oct 10, 1996, Internal Ref. #1.311.1.1593.37]

Individual: Kimbrough, Samuel

County/State: Bourbon Co., KY

Year: 1791

Census type code: Tax List

[Brøderbund Family Archive #312, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1800, Date of Import: Oct 13, 1996, Internal Ref. #1.312.1.1738.111]

Individual: Kimbro, Samuel

County/State: Nicholas Co., KY

Year: 1800

Census type code: Tax List

SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

MOVED TO BOURBON COUNTY, KENTUCKY BETWEEN 1783 AND 1787. HE WAS LAST ON THE VIRGINIA TAX LIST IN 1787 AND FIRST ON KENTUCKY TAX LIST IN 1787. HE SOLD LAND IN VIRGINIA IN 1787,

THE KIMBROUGHS LIVED IN THE AREA OF BOURBON COUNTY THAT IS VERY CLOSE TO NICHOLAS COUNTY. IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT HE NEVER MOVED FROM ONE COUNTY TO THE OTHER, BUT RATHER THE COUNTY LINE MOVED.

IT IS A MYSTERY WHY HE LEFT 3 OF HIS CHILDREN JUST A DOLLAR. POSSIBLY THEY HAD ALREADY RECEIVED A SETTLEMENT. RICHARD DID NOT SURVIVE HIS FATHER BY VERY MUCH SINCE RICHARD'S WIFE REMARRIED IN 1813.

More About SAMUEL KIMBROUGH and SARAH THOMPSON:

Marriage: Abt. 1753

Children of SAMUEL KIMBROUGH and SARAH THOMPSON are:

i. RICHARD⁵ KIMBROUGH, b. VA.¹; d. Bef. 1813, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY¹; m. SARAH BAKER GRIFFITH [KIMBROUGH], 27 May 1801, BOURBON COUNTY, KY; b. 1762, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA¹; d. 22 Jul 1838, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY¹.

Notes for RICHARD KIMBROUGH:

[Brøderbund Family Archive #312, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1800, Date of Import: Oct 13, 1996, Internal Ref. #1.312.1.1738.110]

Individual: Kimbro, Richard

County/State: Nicholas Co., KY

Year: 1800

Census type code: Tax List

ORDER BOOK C p.277 JULY COURT 1817----NICHOLAS COUNTY

THOMAS GRIFFITH IS CHOSEN GUARDIAN TO JANE KIMBROUGH AN INFANT OF RICHARD KIMBROUGH DECEASED WHO ENTERED INTO BOND WITH JOHN BAKER AND JESSE BASKETT ACCORDING TO LAW.

JOHN BAKER WAS APPOINTED GUARDIAN FOR SUSANNAH IN THE SAME COURT.

AT THE NICHOLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN A BOX MARKED ORPHANS WAS A CARD THAT NAMED THREE INFANT CHILDREN OF RICHARD; SUSANNAH, JANE, AND JAMES. IT WAS DATED 1817. NO FURTHER INFORMATION

AT THIS TIME SUSANNAH, THE OLDEST, WAS ABOUT 15.

More About RICHARD KIMBROUGH:

Fact 1: RICHARD AND SARAH MAY HAVE HAD A SON NAMED JAMES

Notes for SARAH BAKER GRIFFITH [KIMBROUGH]:

SARAH PROVED TO BE MORE THAN AN ORDINARY WOMAN, AND WHOSE EARLY LIFE SEEMED TO BE A NECESSITY TO THE EARLY SETTLERS. AT THAT TIME DOCTORS WERE FEW AND LIVED A GREAT DISTANCE APART. AFTER COMING TO KENTUCKY, SARAH STUDIED MEDICINE AND SOON MASTERED THE KNOWLEDGE OF HERBS, AND BEFORE CIVILIZATION HAD CAST ITS MANTLE OVER THE COUNTRY, HER PRACTICE HAD EXTENDED FAR AND NEAR. SHE SPENT HER LIFE IN GREAT USEFULNESS. [ PERRIN'S HISTORY OF HARRISON, BOURBON, NICHOLAS, AND SCOTT COUNTIES. P.660 ]

More About SARAH BAKER GRIFFITH [KIMBROUGH]:

Fact 1: FIRST MARRIAGE TO WILLIAM GRIFFITH

Fact 2: SECOND MARRIAGE TO RICHARD KIMBROUGH

More About RICHARD KIMBROUGH and SARAH [KIMBROUGH]:

Marriage: 27 May 1801, BOURBON COUNTY, KY

ii. JOHN KIMBROUGH.

iii. ROBERT KIMBROUGH.

iv. SALLY KIMBROUGH, m. ///////BARLOW.

v. SUSANNAH KIMBROUGH, m. ///////JONES.

vi. ELIZABETH "BETSY' KIMBROUGH, b. 1774; d. 1835, CALLAWAY COUNTY, MO.; m. WILLIAM BAKER, 19 Oct 1790; b. 1767; d. 1834, CALLAWAY COUNTY, MO..

More About WILLIAM BAKER and ELIZABETH KIMBROUGH:

Marriage: 19 Oct 1790

vii. WILLIAM KIMBROUGH, b. 1777, LOUISA COUNTY, VA.; d. 1852, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY; m. (1) ELIZABETH JAMESON, Bef. 1793; b. 17 Nov 1778; d. 19 Apr 1808, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY; m. (2) ELIZABETH WALTON, Dec 1808, BOURBON COUNTY; b. 1778, NEAR BALTIMORE, MD.; d. 1833, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY.

More About WILLIAM KIMBROUGH and ELIZABETH JAMESON:

Marriage: Bef. 1793

More About WILLIAM KIMBROUGH and ELIZABETH WALTON:

Marriage: Dec 1808, BOURBON COUNTY

Endnotes

1. Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #2273, Date of Import: Oct 8, 1996