WILL OF WILLIAM LUYTEN
Kershaw, SC 1799
SC Will Transcriptions
Not Recorded Wills pages 37-39
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Camden in the State of South Carolina, Feby* 27, 1799 I William Luyten of the State aforesaid, being sound in judgement and in perfect health, this being the Case, I do  make this my Lat will and Testament Revoking all former wills or writings.

Item;;; I first say that I wish the Carcafs Box maker to be paid, but the box must be procured in a most frugal manner- a priest or a Ridiculous pray Reader I can dispence with, and I hope my friends will not admit such stuff at my interment, as I am sure their prayers were never of any Servise or use to me in my Lifetime, So of Course they can be of no profits to me after my Death, a pound Saved for the Surviver is better than Lost,-my Confidence is in my God, he is my Saivour, my Hope, my all,- Neither do I want Organs or Bagpipes as I am Sure that my Sense of hearing Will Depart from me- and I hope my friends will be so obliging as to Lay me in a Hole as far from any Church as pofsible, particularly from those Canting Hypocrites

As my wife Mary Luyten was pofsefsed of Some property, and became a Sole and Separate Dealer in Camden- and as She mary has departed this life before me without first making a will, this being the Case and myself being the Only person authorized to Act on her Estate, - and having apply to the County Court of Camden for Letters of Administration - and as no farther progress has been made but that of a Citation being published and returned into Said Court, and as no Letters of Administration have been granted through the indolence, or Self motives of the judges, this being the cause, and the prayer of my petition Laying Neglected until May 1799, and probably I may not be so fortunate then to obtain what was my due in February; And as I find that the County Court in Camden is unpardonable tedious, and also a Court of Mummery the whole a Mask of justice in Every Sense of the word, and as I have been Obliged

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to Leave Charleston at Sundre times to attend Camden Court to my great Injury fatigue and Expense, endeavoring to obtain judgements in Said Court of Buffoonery on notes due me by William ["Kennedy" crossed out] Kennedey for Cash Lent or in more proper words, Say "Swindled, and he the Said Kennedy does hold a great part of my property Exclusive of Said Notes and which property he holds in a most Villanous Manner and I am apprehensive I shall not recover Said property until a Court of Equity is established -
and as he Kennedey Continues in his Common way of fraud, and protracting Every Suit, and he has proved himself a great Villain to me and also to all who placed Confidence in him Kennedey has not acted as a plain Robber to mankind but as a Thief to his Young Offspring - And as Such slow modes of parceling out justice in the Courts are Continued
without Conclusion, it may proball remain So to the End of my time - This being the Case, and as I amy very advanced in years, also grown weak and infirm, and according to the Course of Nature my Disolution must soon draw to a Close - on those considerations I have thought proper to Nominate and Appoint my Trusty friend, John McCaa of Camden, to act in all cases on the property of Mary Luyten, both Landed and personal, I say that I give Said John McCaa, the Same full and ample power on the property of Mary Luyten, which would have been invested in my had I Survived, -

Respecting my Own property, Item;;; I give and bequeath for Ever;; all I pofses in the hands of John Mc*Caa-" to Say for the use of his Children - Excepting what is under mentioned, - I give all my Cabinet Tools unto John Money for Ever, and if those are not Sufficient, in that Case I do request that John McCaa do purchase a few more for Said John Money - and I do ordain and direct that all and every article of my clothing shall be given to said John Money - and in case John Money should be incapable of further
Labour, if so Humanity will suggest to John Mc*Caa the propriety of such
an act, and he will also support Said John Money

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in a Deasent way such as is adopted for machanics - this care towards him is
my duty, as he the Said John has been a faithful servant to me So Long as from the year 1765 Febr 25^th Lastly I do Nominate and appoint my Trusty friend John McCaa of Camden to act in Every part of my businefs, as my whole and Sale Executor; without
the smallest interference of any person, - and also to act on that part of Mary Luytens
Signed and Seald
in the presence of -
Dan Carpenter
John Adamson
William Lang

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