Will of James Reed
Transcribed by JoEllen (Reed) Ingram

This will was filed and recorded January 6th 1845



  In the name of God; amen I, James Reed of the county of Morgan in the State of Indiana being in perfect health of body and of sound and disposing 
mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time there of and being desirous to settle my worldly 
affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence do therefore make and publish this my 
last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say.
   First I give and devise unto my two sons Elisha Reed and James Reed my plantation where on I now dwell known as being a part of the South West 
quarter of section Seventeen Township Eleven North of range one East containing One Hundred and three acres be the same more or less it being the 
residue of the afore said quarter section of land belonging to me after what I have here after conveyed to my other sons, to them the said Elisha 
Reed and James Reed and their heirs assigns forever in fee simple.
And I do hereby revoke and annul all former wills by me hereto fore made ratifying and confessing this and none other to by my last will and 
testament. In testimony whereof I James Reed have to this my will let my hand and seal this Nineteenth day of July 1836.