Robert F. Samuels to Mary Brashear's Family

On 24 Jan 1792, Henry and Nicholas Crist and Adam Shepherd, for a debt they owed to Samuel Crow, deeded 273 1/4 acres on the waters of Long Lick Creek to Crow who lived in Maryland. Following the death of Samuel Crow, this land descended to his children Basil, Samuel Jr., and Ann who married Thomas Q. Willson. Then on 27 Oct 1821, Ann Crow Willson and her husband sold their third share of the farm to her brother Basil Crow. And on 17 Sep 1825, Samuel Crow Jr. sold his third share of the farm to Basil Crow.

Basil Crow later on 18 Oct 1839 sold an uncertain tract of land, but likely this one, to Benjamin Hughes who was living in Mississippi at the time. It appears that Hughes died in Port Gibson, Mississippi, indebted to the bank there, and his widow and heirs were sued in Bullitt Circuit Court for payment. The court ordered the sale of Hughes' Bullitt County property to pay the debt. Then on 26 Jul 1850, the sale was made and Robert F. Samuels was the purchaser of all but the dower lands belonging to Hughes' widow. Samuels would then arrange with Nancy Hughes to obtain her dower rights.

On 24 Aug 1850, Nancy Brashear Hughes, widow of Benjamin Hughes, deeded her dower rights to his Bullitt County farm to Robert F. Samuels in exchange for lands he would deed to her Brashear relatives, as shown below.

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Bullitt County Deed Book M, Pages 44-46

This indenture made this 24th day of August 1850 between Robert F. Samuels and Malinda his wife of Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky of one part and Mary Brashear, widow of Ignatias Brashear dec'd, and Robert Brashear, son of said Mary, and Mary Elizabeth Brashear, wife of said Robert, and George Henry Brashear, Margaret Caroline Brashear, Benjamin Hughes Brashear, Nancy Hughes Brashear, Robert Horatio Unsel Brashear, Mary Elizabeth Brashear, and James W. Liney Brashear, children of said Robert Brashear and wife of the county and state aforesaid of the other part.

Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the dower lands this day conveyed to said Samuels by Nancy Hughes, widow of Ben Hughes dec'd, a daughter of said Mary and one dollar in hand paid and other valuable considerations in money moving the same, he the said R. F. Samuels has sold and conveyed and by these presents does sell, convey and confirm unto them the said Mary Brashear and Robert Brashear and wife and to the children of the said Robert and wife as aforesaid to hold for life to them the said Mary and Robert and wife and each of them, and in fee to the said children of the said Robert and wife forever the following tract of land in Bullitt County, Kentucky.

All the interest, right and claim which he said Samuels acquired by purchase and deed under the decree of the Bullitt Circuit Court, Kentucky in the name of Penon and Marye against Benjamin Hughes' heirs &c of in and to a tract of 17 acres more or less of land, the same tract conveyed to said Ben Hughes by James C. Hogland and wife, she being one of the ten childen and heirs of Ignatias Brashear dec'd, and also the interest in said 17 acres deeded by Mrs. Nancy Hughes, widow of Ben Hughes as dower in said 17 acres, reference to the deeds from Hogland to Hughes and the decree, sales &c under the decree aforesaid and deed of Nancy hughes to said Samuels will show.

Also said Samuels sells and conveys to said Mary Brashear and Robert Brashear and wife to hold fo life to them and each of them, and in fee simple forever to the children of the said Robert and wife the following other tract of land in Bullitt County, Kentucky, being a part of the May & Oyler survey, and part of the small tract conveyed by James Caldwell to Crow and by Crow to Hughes; all these land laying on Long Lick Creek, south side thereof, Bullitt County, Kentucky, and the last tract is bounded as follows, viz.

Beginning at the patent corner of May and Oyler standing on or near the great road leading to Bardstown, called ash and beech corner, and running thence southwardly with the line of the Caldwell tract sold to Crow so far that, a straight line is to run from thence, passing by a cedar tree (near the road and standing inside the fence near the woods, 14 poles and a small fraction from the said beginning corner) and straight on northwardly to some small mulberry saplings on the bluff of Long lick Creek (about 68 poles above the line of the May and Oyler tract and old Brashear line) and then down the bluff of the creek so as to leave to Samuels a good road 15 feet wide as a passway from his land on the top of the bluff of the creek to the said, Long Lick Creek and down the creek about 68 poles in all from the mulberry to the line of the said May and Oyler, and also line of the old Ignatius Brashear tract, and with the line of the old May and Oyler and Brashear tract about 178 poles to the beech and poplar, the beginning aforesaid, containing about 45 acres, be the same more or less.

It is understood that said Brashears and Samuels reserve herein a roadway and right of way at all times to pass from the said Samuels' land near said bluff of Long Lick Creek down to the creek 15 feet wide so as to make a good roadway. And the bottom land nest the creek and to the right of the road to the point where the roadway reaches the said creek is Samuels', with teh appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining.

Said Samuels also sells to said Mary Brashear and Robert Brashear and wife for life as aforesaid and to the children of the said Robert and wife in fee forever a tract of 100 acres of land, part of the John May 300 acre tract conveyed by Bibb to Crow and by Crow to Hughes, which 100 acres is on the north side of Long Lick Creek and joins the tract called the King tract claimed by Kurtz, and begins for the 100 acres where the eastern line going north crosses the King or Kurtz line and running then north with the May line so far towards the poplar level that a line from thence at right angles running west shall extend half way from the top of the knob down the hill toward the cleared land of the Crow place, and from thence along and under the knob next Crow place halfway to the cleared ground from the top, southwardly and to the King patent line and with the same to the beginning as will include in such boundary said 100 acres.

And said Samuels allows to said Brashear the right of way up the creek to this land to get timber &c by wagon &c and said Brashears allow and Samuels retains the right of way the same route to said land and through said 100 acres for wagons &c to the other lands of said Samuels; and these rights of way to exist at all times to the respective parties and those holding under them, unless abolished by consent of future owners, with the appurtenances to the said several tracts of land belonging or in any wise appertaining.

To have and to hold the same for life to said Mary and Robert and wife and the life time of each of them, and in fee simple forever to the said children of the said Robert and wife, against the claims of the said Samuels and wife and all persons claiming by, from, through or under them. A stone is to be planted on the bluff of the creek at the mulberry corner and at the cedar near the road, and on the back line next the Caldwell land, all this line to be a straight line through. It is the clear meaning of the parties to this conveyance that the use for life of the land herein conveyed is to be 1st for the support of old Mrs. Mary Brashear, and 2ndly for the support in common of said Robert Brashear and wife and children during the lives of all or any of the three persons named for life, and in fee to said children now born, and to any others the said Robert Brashear may have born lawfully to him in wedlock. And said Robert Brashear is to give in said land for tax and pay taxes for the same. And Nancy Hughes by her attorney Henry Hughes becomes a party to this deed to agree to the terms herein. Witness the hands and seals of the parties the date first herein written.

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