Will of John Linder Jr. In the name of God Amen.... I John Linder Jr. of the settlement of Tensaw and province of Louisiana being through the abundant mercy and goodness of God to weak in body yet sound of mine and perfect understanding and memory, do constitute this my last will and testament, and desire it may be received by all as such.Will of John Linder Jr.
In the name of God Amen....
I John Linder Jr. of the settlement of Tensaw and province of Louisiana being through the abundant mercy and goodness of God to weak in body yet sound of mine and perfect understanding and memory, do constitute this my last will and testament, and desire it may be received by all as such.
First, I must humbly bequeath my Soul to God my maker beseeching his most gracious acceptance of it, through the all sufficient merits and subsidation of my most compassionate redeemer Jesus Christ who gave himself to be as atonement for my sins and is able to Save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, dying he ever liveth to make intersession for them and who I trust will not reject me a returning penitent Sinner when I come to him for mercy, in this hope and confidence I render up my soul with comfort, humbly beseeching the most blessed and Glorious Trinity, one God most holy, most merciful and gracious, to prepare me for the time of my dissolution and then to take me to himself into that peace and rest, and in comparable felicity which He doth prepare all that love and fear His Holy Name. Amen. Blessed be God, I give my body to the Earth from whence it was taken in full assurance of its resurrection from thence at the last day, as for my burial I desire that it may be decent without pomp or state at the discretion of my dear wife and my Executors hereafter named who I doubt not will manage it with all requisite prudence.
As to my worldly Estate wherewith It has pleased God to bless me with, I will and positively order, that all my just debts be paid, and that the public work be completed I have undertaken at Mobile and that my estate, consisting of thirty-two negroes, forty one head of Horses four hundred head of cattle, farming utensils and household furniture be equally divided between my loving wife and unto my five children, viz. Mary, John, Elizabeth, Sarah and Alexander Linder and should my wife marry and die before her husband then her share of the Estate is to be equally divided amongst my children, aforesaid for which I appoint my ever honored Father John Linder, Sr. and Alexander McGillvray Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and Trustees for my wife and children in Witness whereof hereunto I have Set my hand and seal the Seventeenth of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two.
Signed and published and
pronounced in the presence of us John Linder Junior
Robert Land
Dan Wheat .... George Phillips
Samuel Fulton ... Michael Norton
Jeremiah Phillips ... Thomas Lott
Thomas Husson
I Don Joakin de Osorns do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a first and true Copy of The Original Will and Testament of John Linder Junior. So said in the archives of Mobile at my charge, being Commandant, Civil and Military of said place given unto my hand this 23rd of August 1803 at Mobile.
Signed Joag de Osorns
This will recorded during the time of Spanish Control was contested in Washington Co. Mississippi Territory in 1803. John Linder, Jr was the son of John Linder, Sr, the commandant of the Tensaw Settlement. Alexander McGillvray, half indian - half Scottish, educated in Edinbourgh, was the chief of the Creek Indians. When John Sr. died, John, Jr. estate was still not settled.
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