From: Uandmyarmy@aol.com 
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:41:39 EST 
Subject: Please post this transcription on the Spencer Co. Ky Archives? 

Hi, Could you please post the transcription of John Gunterman (my ancestral uncle) on the Spencer Co. KY Archives? Many thanks, Katherine Rosado

Transcription of John Gonterman Will:

In the name of God Amen. I, John Gonterman of the County of Spencer being 
sick and weak of body but of sound mind and disposing memory (for which I 
thank God) and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life and being 
desirous to dispose of all such wordly estate it hath pleased God to bless me 
with, I give and bequeath the same in manner following that is to say I wish 
my Black woman Isabel and her three children James Jane and Ann and Mary and 
her child Jackson to have their choise to choose masters and be sold the 
women choosing for themselves and children and have one hundred dollars for 
each one out of the price they bring that is to say that Isabel have four 
hundred dollars and Mary two hundred dollars or said women and children may 
bee free and have fifteen hundred to take them to some country where they 
will be received and the said fifteen hundred dollars left is to be in the 
hands of my executors and I wish them to see that the above named women and 
children are removed and the money allpied for the benefit of the said women 
and children and if my old man James desire to go with them it is wish that 
he should go and bee supported out of the fifteen hundred dollars that is 
left for the women and children and placed in the hands of my executors for 
the said purpose for which I desire that my executres have a reasonable 
compenstation for their trouble to be paid out of the balance of my estate 
and I further wish my executors to use the first money that may come to hand 
for the removal of said Blacks and I wish my black man Joseph to have the 
priveledge of choosing his master and be sold and to have one hundred dollars 
of what he brings for him to apply as he thinks proper,
And in making further distribution of my property I wish my executors to give 
one note that I hold on Aron Stark to his three children Nancy J. Crow John 
V. and William K. Stark and I will Anna Frasure of Clark, Illinoise one 
hundred dollars and Mary J and Shafer one hundred dollars and it is my wish 
that Bailey G. Tabb have four years from my Decease to pay off the note that 
I hold on him for four hundred and Four Dollars And I wish And I will unto 
my newfiew Perry Stark my farm on which I now live and if he wishes to 
purchase my said farm he is to have it by paying twenty four hundred in four 
eaquol annuel payments and if he refuse to purchase said farm at said price 
and payments it is my wish for it to be sold to the heist Bidder on such 
termas as above named and I further will all my personal estate to be sold 
and after all my just debts and funeral expenses are paid the balance to be 
equally devide amounst my brother and sisters except my brother Jacob 
Gonterman and it is my wish that his son William M. Gonterman have his 
fathers part and isament hear by revoking all former wills or testaments made 
by me in witness I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal this first 
day of December 1856. John Gonterman (SEAL)
Singed sealed and delivered in the presence of John Kester
Attest William S. Pitterngar my wish that my cash notes be devided in 
the same manner as my personal estate.
And lastly I do hreby constituce and appoint my friends Perry Stark and Nathan Beauchamp executors of this my last will and testament hear by 
revoking all former wills or testaments made by me in witness I have here 
unto set my hand and affixed my seal this first day of December 1856. JOHN 
GONTERMAN (Seal)
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of John Kester

Attest William X. Pittengar