WILL OF VINCENT CARRICO
submitted by Dan & Marilyn Devaney
Transcriptions of documents from
Missouri's Judicial
Records (offsite)
SOURCE-WILL
OF VINCENT CARRICO:
Missouri State Archives, P.O. Box 1747, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102.
County: St. Louis County
Record: Will (filed in Rec. of Deeds)
Vol: R
Page: 444-447
Reel: C6098(Silver)
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Copy of the handwritten will transcribed by Dan and Marilyn Devaney
April 2005 keeping the original spelling. We are still working on
some of the words and phrases that are hard to read. We've
used “xxxx” to show these places.
[page 444]
In the Name of God amen. I Vincent Carrico of the Township of St.
Ferdinand, County of St. Louis, Missouri Territory being weak in body
but of sound memory (blessed be God) do this sixteenth day of March in
the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen make and
publish this my last will and testament; in manner following;)
that is to say, first I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Susannah
Carrico my plantation and four hundred arpens more or less of Land
whereon the said plantation situate: lying and being in the
County and Township aforesaid and being the place where I late resided
about one mile and one fourth from Belle Fountain to have and to hold
for her own free use and benefit during her widowhood, and in case she
the said Susannah intermarrys again then the said “land” to decend to
my two loving sons
[page 445]
that is to say to my loving son Felix Carrico one hundred and ninety
one arpens of land that part of the said farm or tract of land granted
by the Spanish Authorities to Dennis Carriger [is this Vincent's
brother Dennis Sylvester Carrico?].
and to my loving son “Silas” Carrico two hundred arpens of land, that
part of the said farm or tract of Land that I purchased from the
Administrators of the Estate of Hezekiah Lard;
and I give to my loving wife Susannah Carrico one Negro woman by the
name of Ally, one Negro man by the name of Abraham and three horses,
six cows, one yoke of work oxen and an iron bound cart, ten head of
sheep, and all my hogs that I have running on the farm that I have give
to her three plows and all my household furniture, beds, bedding,
wearing apparels and household goods and kitchen furniture unto my
loving wife Susannah Carrico to have for her own free use and benefit
during her widowhood and in case my said wife Susannah Carrico should
intermarry or die then the said goods and chattles and slaves to be
equally divided among my children according to law, and I give and
bequeath all that tract of land that I bought of Jaques St. Vrain
containing eleven hundred and seventy five arpens lying and being in
the Missouri Bottom joining the plantation of Paschal Cere and lying
and being in the Township and county aforesaid to my loving sons and
daughters to wit:
Asa Carrico, Elizabeth Martin, James Carrico, Daniel Carrico, Benjamin
Carrico and Walter Carrico that is to say in form following to wit:
to my loving son Asa Carrico his part beginning at Paschal Cere's
corner in from C. Lucas' line thence running along Cere's line east one
hundred perch thence to run in an oblong square with Lucas' line so as
to include his one sixth part of the said tract of land
and to my loving daughter Elizabeth Martin to begin at my son Asa
corner in Cere line and running on Cere line one hundred perch
thence in an oblong square to lye along my said son Asa line so as to
include her one sixth part of the said tract of land
and to my loving son Daniel Carrico beginning at my daughter Elizabeth
corner in Cere line, thence along Cere line to the east corner of my
said survey, thence North 27 degrees East along the division line
between me and Soulard so that to run a west course and strike my
daughter Elizabeth line will contain her one sixth part of said tract
of land:
and to my loving son James Carrico to begin at my son Daniel's corner
in my daughter Elizabeth's line thence running east on my son Daniel's
line to the division line between me and Soulard thence along said
division line North 27 degrees east to Musick's corner in the said
division line thence along Musick's line, North 87 degrees West so as
to contain his one sixth part of the said tract of land.
and to my loving son Benjamin Carrico and to my loving son Walter
Carrico the remaining two sixth part of the said tract of land to be
divided into two equal parts as it respects quantity and quality.
and Benjamin to take his choice and the last sixth part to be my son
Walter's.
and I give and bequeath to my loving son Vincent Carrico and my loving
daughter Lydia Carrico the plantation whereon I now reside, lying in
the Township and County aforesaid to be equally divided between them as
it respects quantity and quality and timber and to be divided so that
my son Vincent Carrico part shall include the dwelling house and
improvements near it and my Daughter Lydia part to include the
improvements next to the Creek.
and I give to my loving Daughter Susannah Carrico and my loving
Daughter Meleny Carrico all that tract or parcel of land that I bought
of Gabriel Loire and annother tract
[page 446]
joining Gabriel Loire containing two hundred and eighty two arpens that
was granted to me by the Spanish Authorities and one of which corners
of land starts from the corner of Paschal Cere's land. both
tracts or parcels of land lying in the Township and County
aforesaid. the said two tracts of land to be equally divided as
it respects quantity quality and timber between my said two Daughters,
Susannah Carrico and Meleny Carrico, and if either Susannah Carrico or
Meleny Carrico should die before they become of age the one that
survives shall take all of the two tracts of land and if they both
should live, and either of the other heirs should die before they come
of age, then, and in that case Meleny Carrico is to give up her part of
the said two tracts of land and Susannah Carrico is by my will to have
all of the two said tracts of land and I do will that my said daughter
Meleny shall in lieu of the part that she was to have of the said two
tracts have and take that part or portion of land that was willed and
bequeathed by me to the heir that should die, and if all the heirs
should live to come of age then, and in that case I do will and
bequeath to my said two daughters Susannah Carrico and Meleny Carrico
six hundred arpens of land to be taken out of my land lying on Salt
River that I bought of Fronsie Gunier being a part of his Salt Lick
survey and which land is laid off in three hundred arpen surveys and
numbered one, two, and so on. my said daughter Susannah Carrico
to have and take the tract of said land numbered one and containing
three hundred arpens, and my Daughter Meleny Carrico to have and take
the tract of said land numbered two and containing three hundred
arpens.
and I give and bequeath to my wife's sister's daughter Margaret Todd
one hundred arpens of land that she shall carve out of my said tract of
land lying on Salt River that I purchased of Frimore Delxxxx it
being part of his Salt Lick survey.
and I do will and in a partic xxx say that in consideration
of the faithful services of my Negro man Willis and have heretofore
promised him that on the first day of January next I do emancipate and
entirely free my said Negro man Willis from any demands that I myself,
my heirs, executors or administrators may have on or against him and do
expressly will that he shall from the first day of January next go
forth free his own man in every sense of the word,
and I do will that all the rest of my lands and tenements,
hereditaments, goods and chattls and money due me by Bond, Note, Bank
account or otherwise shall be equally divided between my children
according to law
and I do will that all the rest of my slaves that are not disposed of
in this my will shall be hired out by the year and the whole amount of
their wages shall be kept and put out on interest with good security
and in case my wife Susannah Carrico should intermarry then, and in
that case the hire of these my slaves shall be appropriated to the
schooling of my minor children. but if my said wife Susannah Carrico
should not intermarry but remain a widow, then, and in that case the
hire of my said slaves is to be kept and as above mentioned if it can
be on in trust untill all my children should arrive at age and then to
be equally divided among them according to law.
I do likewise consititute, make and ordain Susannah my wife and my son
Asa Carrico and my son in law Moses Martin Executors of this my last
will and testament and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and
disanull all and every other will and testament by me made and do
ratify and confirm this my last will and testament xxxx thereunto
set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
[page 447]
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced, declared by the said Vincent
Carrico as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who were
present at the signing and sealing thereof. The words “land”
“Carrico” and “son” interlined before signing.
John E. Allen, Daniel Quick, John
Patterson
Vincent Carrico (Seal)
Missouri Territory
County of St. Louis
Before me Mary Philip Leduc Clerk of the Circuit Court within & for
the County of Saint Louis in the Territory of Missouri personally came
and appeared the within named witnesses, John E. Allen, Daniel Quick
and John Patterson, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of
Almighty God depose & say that at the request of Vincent Carrico
the within named Testator, and in his presence, and in the presence of
each other they and each of them subscribed their names to the within
Last Will and Testament as witnesses to the same; that he the said
Testator Vincent Carrico signed, sealed and acknowledged the same in
their presence as his last Will and Testament for the purposes therein
contained; and that at the time of the signing and sealing of the same
he the said Testator appeared to the said deponents of sound mind and
disposing memory.
Sworn to and subscribed before me at my office in St. Louis this Eighth
day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixteen. Witnesses my name and private seal there being no seal
of office yet procured.
John E. Allen
Daniel Quick
John Patterson
M. P. Leduc, Clerk
State of Missouri
County of St. Louis
I Henri Chouteau, Clerk of the Circuit Court, within and for the county
aforesaid do certify that the foregoing last will and testament and
certificate xxx are duly recorded in my office in the records, letters
and Wills, Book B page 25 and following this sixteenth day of August
1831. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the
seal of said court, at the City of St. Louis, the day and year
aforesaid.
Henri Chouteau, Clerk.
Note.- - Besides the words interlined as noted above the word “Silas”
on second page in third line from the top of the Record of this will is
written on an erasure and scarcely legible in the original.
Recorded November 9th 1831.
Archibald Gamble, Recorder