Timberlake v. Parish's

James Parish, who died early in the year 1830, leaving a widow by whom he had no children, and also leaving six children by a former marriage, made a will, admitted to record in April, 1830, by which he directed his execu*346tor to sell and distribute among his children, or their representatives, so as to make them all equal, the whole of his estate, real and personal, after satisfying the following legacy to his surviving “wife;” — “First, I give and be- “ queath unto my beloved wife, Tabitha Parish, one negro man named Harry, twelve hundred dollars in gold “ or silver, one horse — her choice of…