In the name of God Amen

I Elizabeth Davis of the State of South CarolinaSumter District being in perfect health of Body and of Sound mind andMemory thanks be given unto God; Calling unto Mind the mortality ofMy Body and knowing it is appointed for all once to die do make andordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say; and first ofall I give and recomend my Soul into the Hand of Almighty God thatgave it and my Body I recomend to the Earth to be buried in a decentChristian burial at the Discretion of my Executors Nothing doubtingbut at the general Resurection I shall receive the same again by themighty power of God, And as touching such Worldly Estate Wherewith ithas pleas,d God to blefs me in this life I give Demise and Dispose ofthe same in the following Maner and Form

First I give and bequeath unto my Son Lemuel BDavis Two negro girls Tiler and Mary together with their ofspring andalso my buffat and case with the bottles therein Contain,d to him andhis heirs forever upon his paying two hundred and fifty dollars intothe hands of My Son Amos Davis and the Like Sum of two hundred andfifty Dollars into the hands of Sealy Nichols Making in all the Sumof five hundred dollars.

Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter FrancesHodge the Sum of Ten dollars as her part of my Estate to be paid untoher as soon as my Executors hereafter nam.d can Settle the businefsof the Estate

Item the rest and residue of my property I will;and bequeath to be Divided share and share alike among my Childrenhereafter nam.d one share unto my Son Amos Davis one share unto myson Joel Davis one share unto my son Thomas Davis one share unto myson Lemuel B Davis and one share unto my Daughter Sealy Nichols tothem and their heirs forever And I do Constitute and ordain ThosDavis and Lemuel B Davis Executors to this my last Will and Testamentin witnefs whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18thJuly and in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred andSeventeen an in the forty Second year of the Sovereignty andIndependence of the Unighted States of America

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Signed sealed Published Pronounced and Declared bythe said Elizabeth Davis as her last Will and Testament in thepresence of us who in her presence and in the presence of each otherhave hereto Subscribed our Names

A N Bethune

Edward Wells

William Montgomery

Recorded in Will Book AA, page 167

Recorded 29th Day of Jan 1819

William Potts Ordy

Bundle 28, Pkge 2