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11-92 this deponent always understood & believed; that John Skaggs, Liddy Skaggs, Susannah Skaggs, & Elizabeth Skaggs were the brother & sisters of said Moses Skaggs, that the John Skaggs is dead & that William Querry is an heir of said John Skaggs, having married his daughter; that Liddy Skaggs was married to Mathias Harman, that said Mathias Harman & his wife, Liddy are dead & that their heirs now living are Adam Harman, Mathias Harman, Henry Harman, Robert Beavers, Moses Beavers, & Thomas Christian, the said Robert & Moses Beavers & Thomas Christian having married daughters of said Mathias & Liddy Harman; that the said Susannah Skaggs married Richard Whitt, that she & her husband are now dead & that Hezekiah Whitt, Susannah Criswell, & Edmund Whitt are the heirs of said Richard Whitt & his wife, Susannah; that the said Elizabeth Skaggs married John Hankins, that she & her husband are now dead & that Moses Hankins, Joseph Hankins, Lucy Hankins, Lydia Hankins, Parthena Hankins, Archibald Maloney, John Mitchel, John Howell, & Joseph White are the heirs of said John Hankins & Elizabeth, his wife, the said Maloney, Mitchell, Howell Page 57: & White having married daughters of the said John & Elizabeth Hankins. This deponent further states that the persons before mentioned to wit William Querry, Adam Harman, Mathias Harman, Henry Harman, Robert Beavers, Moses Beavers, Thomas Christian, Hezekiah Whitt, Susannah Creswell, Edmund Whitt, Moses Hankins, Joseph Hankins, Lucy Hankins, Lydia Hankins, Parthena Hankins, Archibald Maloney, John Mitchell, John Howell, & Joseph White have sold & transferred to Aaron & Jeremiah Lewis of Kentucky their right & claim to the estate of Moses Skaggs deceased. This deponent knows of their (signing, crossed thru) acknowledging except Edmund Whitt, whom deponent did not see, & also a writing transfering the said right & claim to said Aaron & Jeremiah Lewis, which writing is similar to one now here produced & said to be a copy tested by the Clerk of Green Circuit Court in Kentucky. The reasons upon which this deponent founds his statements, that the persons above named are the heirs of John & Elizabeth Hankins, Mathias & Liddy Harman, Richard & Susanah Whitt, & John Skaggs & that the said John, Elizabeth, Liddy, & Susanah Skaggs were brothers & sisters of Moses Skaggs, are the facts that the said deponent has been acquainted & lived for 54 years among the parties, he has always heard & known them to be recognized as the relatives to the persons as he has stated, general report & universal opinion has considered them to be the persons he has said, & this deponent is as certain of their identity & relationship as he can be of any such fact; & further this deponent saith not. /s/ Moses (x) Hankins (his mark) Joseph Hankins, another witness of lawful age having been first duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that he was acquainted with Moses Skaggs about the year ( ) at which time said Skaggs resided in Washington County, now Tazewell, Virginia, that said Skaggs moved from Virginia to Kentucky about the year ( ) since when deponent has known but little of him. The said Moses Skaggs had Page 58: brothers & sisters, or these were persons whom said Moses Skaggs & every body else recognized as his brothers & sisters, to wit John Skaggs, who is now dead & a daughter of said John Skaggs married one William Querry; also Elizabeth Skaggs, who married John Hankins. The said Elizabeth & her husband are both dead & their children now reside in Tazewell County, Virginia to wit Moses, Joseph, Lucy, Lydia, & Parthena Hankins; also the wives of Archibald Maloney, John Mitchell, John Howell, & Joseph White are children of said John & Elizabeth Hankins. Susanah was also a sister of Moses Skaggs & she married Richard Whitt, both now dead & Hezekiah Whitt, Susannah Creswell, & Edmund Whitt are children & heirs of said Richard & Susanah Whitt & reside in Virginia. Liddy also another sister of Moses Skaggs, married Mathias Harman: the said Liddy & her husband are dead, but they have children & heirs residing in Tazewell County, to wit; Henry, Mathias, Adam Harman, & the wives of Thomas Christian, Moses Beavers, & Robert 18

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this deponent always understood & believed; that John Skaggs, Liddy Skaggs, Susannah Skaggs, & Elizabeth Skaggs were the brother & sisters of said Moses Skaggs, that the John Skaggs is dead & that William Querry is an heir of said John Skaggs, having married his daughter; that Liddy Skaggs was married to Mathias Harman, that said Mathias Harman & his wife, Liddy are dead & that their heirs now living are Adam Harman, Mathias Harman, Henry Harman, Robert Beavers, Moses Beavers, & Thomas Christian, the said Robert & Moses Beavers & Thomas Christian having married daughters of said Mathias & Liddy Harman; that the said Susannah Skaggs married Richard Whitt, that she & her husband are now dead & that Hezekiah Whitt, Susannah Criswell, & Edmund Whitt are the heirs of said Richard Whitt & his wife, Susannah; that the said Elizabeth Skaggs married John Hankins, that she & her husband are now dead & that Moses Hankins, Joseph Hankins, Lucy Hankins, Lydia Hankins, Parthena Hankins, Archibald Maloney, John Mitchel, John Howell, & Joseph White are the heirs of said John Hankins & Elizabeth, his wife, the said Maloney, Mitchell, Howell

Page 57: & White having married daughters of the said John & Elizabeth Hankins. This deponent further states that the persons before mentioned to wit William Querry, Adam Harman, Mathias Harman, Henry Harman, Robert Beavers, Moses Beavers, Thomas Christian, Hezekiah Whitt, Susannah Creswell, Edmund Whitt, Moses Hankins, Joseph Hankins, Lucy Hankins, Lydia Hankins, Parthena Hankins, Archibald Maloney, John Mitchell, John Howell, & Joseph White have sold & transferred to Aaron & Jeremiah Lewis of Kentucky their right & claim to the estate of Moses Skaggs deceased. This deponent knows of their (signing, crossed thru) acknowledging except Edmund Whitt, whom deponent did not see, & also a writing transfering the said right & claim to said Aaron & Jeremiah Lewis, which writing is similar to one now here produced & said to be a copy tested by the Clerk of Green Circuit Court in Kentucky. The reasons upon which this deponent founds his statements, that the persons above named are the heirs of John & Elizabeth Hankins, Mathias & Liddy Harman, Richard & Susanah Whitt, & John Skaggs & that the said John, Elizabeth, Liddy, & Susanah Skaggs were brothers & sisters of Moses Skaggs, are the facts that the said deponent has been acquainted & lived for 54 years among the parties, he has always heard & known them to be recognized as the relatives to the persons as he has stated, general report & universal opinion has considered them to be the persons he has said, & this deponent is as certain of their identity & relationship as he can be of any such fact; & further this deponent saith not.

/s/ Moses (x) Hankins (his mark)

Joseph Hankins, another witness of lawful age having been first duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that he was acquainted with Moses Skaggs about the year ( ) at which time said Skaggs resided in Washington County, now Tazewell, Virginia, that said Skaggs moved from Virginia to Kentucky about the year ( ) since when deponent has known but little of him. The said Moses Skaggs had

Page 58: brothers & sisters, or these were persons whom said Moses Skaggs & every body else recognized as his brothers & sisters, to wit John Skaggs, who is now dead & a daughter of said John Skaggs married one William Querry; also Elizabeth Skaggs, who married John Hankins. The said Elizabeth & her husband are both dead & their children now reside in Tazewell County, Virginia to wit Moses, Joseph, Lucy, Lydia, & Parthena Hankins; also the wives of Archibald Maloney, John Mitchell, John Howell, & Joseph White are children of said John & Elizabeth Hankins. Susanah was also a sister of Moses Skaggs & she married Richard Whitt, both now dead & Hezekiah Whitt, Susannah Creswell, & Edmund Whitt are children & heirs of said Richard & Susanah Whitt & reside in Virginia. Liddy also another sister of Moses Skaggs, married Mathias Harman: the said Liddy & her husband are dead, but they have children & heirs residing in Tazewell County, to wit; Henry, Mathias, Adam Harman, & the wives of Thomas Christian, Moses Beavers, & Robert

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Beavers. This deponent was well acquainted with the Skaggs family & has no hesitation in asserting that the persons above named are such members of said family as he has stated. The said Moses Skaggs was never married.

Isl Joseph (x) Hankins (his mark)

Ebenezer Brewster another witness of lawful age having been first duly sworn, deposeth & saith that he has resided in Tazewell County for 62 years, & that he was acquainted with a number of the Skaggs family. This deponent has always understood & believed & has heard many persons say that Elizabeth, the wife of John Hankins, Liddy, the wife of Mathias Harman senior, & Susannah, the wife of Richard Whitt, were sisters of Moses Skaggs who moved to Kentucky about the year 1782 & that John Skaggs was a brother of said Moses Skaggs. This deponent knows that Moses, Joseph,

Page 59: Lydia, & Parthena Hankins, & also the wives of Archibald Maloney, JohnMitchell, John Howell, & Joseph White were always called & reputed children of Elizabeth, wife of John Hankins & that said children were always recognized by said Elizabeth as her children. This deponent also knows that Mathias, Adam, & Henry Harman & also the wives of Robert Beavers, Moses Beavers, & Thomas Christian were called & reputed by all persons, children of the said Liddy, wife of Mathias Harman, & that said Liddy recognized them as her children. Hezekiah & Edmund Whitt & Susannah Creswell were also known as the Children of the said Susannah, wife of Richard Whitt, & the said Susannah Whitt & every other person always recognized said Hezekiah & Edmund Whitt & Susanah Creswell as her children. The said John Skaggs had a daughter, who married William Querry, as this deponent has always heard & believed. The said Elizabeth Hankins & Liddy Harman died in Tazewell County; & the said Susannah Whitt & John Skaggs are also dead as this deponent has heard & believes, & further this deponent saith not.

Isl Ebenezer (x) Bruster (his mark)

Thomas Witten, another witness of lawful age, having been first duly sworn, deposeth & saith that he has resided in Tazewell County for about 66 years & that he was acquainted with a number of the Skaggs family & lived a neighbor to them. Every person whom this deponent ever heard speak on the subject, said that Moses Skaggs & John Skaggs & Elizabeth Hankins & Susannah Whitt, & Liddy Harman were brothers & sisters. This deponent was acquainted with Moses Skaggs & the others above named. The said Moses Skaggs removed to Kentucky as was said about the year 1782, or 1783 or 1784. Henry, Adam, & Mathias Harman & the wives of Thomas Christian, Moses Beavers, & Robert Beavers were always said & supposed to be children of Liddy Harman

Page 60: sister of said Moses Skaggs & recognized by said Liddy as her children. Joseph, Moses, Lucy, Lydia, & Parthena Hankins & the wives of Archibald Maloney, John Mitchell, Joseph White & John Howell were also always recognized by Elizabeth Hankins, sister of Moses Skaggs as her children & this deponent hath also always understood that Hezekaih Whitt & Edmund Whitt, & Susan Creswell were children of Susannah Whitt, sister of said Moses Skaggs, & they have always been reputed as such, & further this deponent saith not.

Isl Thomas (x) Witten (his mark)

Bird Lockhart of lawful age being duly sworn deposeth & saith that the paper now exhibited & signed by the heirs of Moses Skaggs deceased was acknowledged & signed by the parties in deponents presents,

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except by Susan Creswell & Edmund Whitt, whom deponent did not see executed the paper. Said paper now exhibited is a copy of the original tested by the Clerk of Green Circuit Court, Kentucky & further this deponent saith not.

Isl Bird Lockhart

Virginia, Tazewell County, to wit: We, Hetvey George & William Cox, Justices of the peace for the County &

State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing de- positions of Moses Hankins, Joseph Hankins, Ebenezer Brewster, Thomas Witten, & Bird Lockhart were duly taken, sworn to & subscribed before us at the Clerk's Office of the County Court of our said County of Tazewell on the 1st day of November 1837 in pursuance of the commission & notice herewith returned. Given under our hands & seals November 1st 1837. Isl Is)

Hetvey George, William Cox,

J.P (Seal) J.P. (Seal)

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