The Hermitage, Home of Old HickoryHorn, Stanley F.
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The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory
Horn, Stanley F.
Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.); Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Hermitage
_Secondly_, That all my just debts be paid out of my personal and real
estate by my executor; for which purpose, to meet the debt of my good
friends General J. B. Blanchin & Co., of New Orleans, for the sum of six
thousand dollars, with the interest accruing thereon, loaned to me to
meet the debt due by A. Jackson, Jr., for the purchase of the plantation
from Hiram G. Runnels, lying on the east bank of the river Mississippi,
in the State of Mississippi; also, a debt due by me of ten thousand
dollars, borrowed of my friends Blair and Rives, of the city of
Washington and District of Columbia, with the interest accruing thereon,
being applied to the payment of the lands bought of Hiram G. Runnels as
aforesaid; and for the faithful payment of the aforesaid recited debts,
I hereby bequeath all my real and personal estate. After these debts are
fully paid,
_Thirdly_, I give and bequeath to my adopted son, Andrew Jackson, Jr.,
the tract of land whereon I now live, known as the Hermitage tract, with
its butts and boundaries, with all its appendages of the three lots of
land bought of Samuel Donelson, Thomas J. Donelson and Alexander
Donelson, sons and heirs of Savern Donelson, deceased, all adjoining the
Hermitage tract, agreeable to their butts and boundaries, with all the
appurtenances thereto belonging or in any wise appertaining, with all my
negroes that I may die possessed of, with the exceptions hereafter
named, with all their increase after the before recited debts are fully
paid, with all the household furniture, farming tools, stock of all
kind, both on the Hermitage tract farms, as well as those on the
Mississippi plantation, to him and his heirs, forever. The true intent
and meaning of this may last will and testament is, that all my estate,
real, personal and mixed, is hereby bequeathed to my adopted son A.
Jackson, Jr., with the exceptions hereafter named, to him and his heirs,
forever.
_Fourth_, Whereas I have heretofore by conveyance, deposited with my
beloved daughter, Sarah Jackson, wife of my adopted son, A. Jackson,
Jr., given to my beloved granddaughter, Rachel Jackson, daughter of A.
Jackson, Jr. and Sarah his wife, several negroes therein described,
which I hereby confirm—I give and bequeath to my beloved grandson,
Andrew Jackson, son of A. Jackson, Jr. and Sarah his wife, a negro boy
named Ned, son of Blacksmith Aaron and Hannah his wife, to him and his
heirs forever.
_Fifth_, I give and bequeath to my beloved little grandson, Samuel
Jackson, son of A. Jackson, Jr. and his much beloved wife Sarah, one
negro boy named Davy or George, son of Squire and his wife Giney, to him
and his heirs forever.
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