Will of Randolph Hall, dated August 3, 1816 In the name of God, Amen, Randolph Hall, of the County of Garrard, and the State of Kentucky, being sensible of my mortality, and knowing that life is uncertain do make my last will and testament in manner and form following, to wit:
I give to my beloved wife Sally Hall the tract of land on which I now live together with my negro man Ned with as much of my other personal estate as she may think necessary for her comfortable support during her natural life or widowhood, she keeping my poor afflicted son Jonathan Hall, and maintaining him and at her death or marriage for the land on which I now live to be rented and for the rent to be applied to the support of my afflicted son Jonathan and my faithful servant Ned to be free. My land in Pulaski county, Kentucky, I wish to be sold, together with my other personal estate which my wife dont take, and the money equally divided amongst all my children, viz: Nathan Huston Hall, Susanna Downing, Shadrack Hall, Elizabeth Hanly, David Hall, Anna Hall, John Mason Hall, Polly Hall and Randolph Strother Hall. I do appoint my trusty friends James Sellers and Garrard Banks executors of this my last will and testament. As witness my hand and seal this 3rd day of August in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
(Signed) Randolph Hall
Source: Will Book E, p. 159