South Carolina Clarendon County
In the Name of God Amen, I Alexander Robinson ofthe County and State aforesaid Being Weak in body but of Sound Mind,and Memory (blefsed be God) do this First Day of January 1798, Make,and Publish, this My Last Will, and Testament In Manner Following(that is to Say) Imprimis, I give to my Daughter Ann Courtney twoNegroes. a boy Named Bobb, and a Girl Names Cloe With there increaseItem) I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Mary Adkins, and the heirsof her Body Lawfully begotten, two Negroe Girls, Named Peggy, andSarah, to be Delivered To her by my Executors. When Ever She Demandsthem, after the Decease of Marmaduke Adkins, her Present Husband, andIf She Dies without Leaving, living Ifsue, then the Said two Negroes,with there Increase, to be Sold, and the Money, arising therefrom Tobe Equally Divided, amongst my Children, then Living, or thereLawfull Ifsue) Item I Give and bequeth to my Daughter ElizabethRobinson, and the heirs of her body Lawfully begotten three Negroes,a wench, Names Tianer, a Girl, Named Dolly, & boy Named Jameswith there Increase and one Feather bed and Furniture to be Deliveredto her on the Day of her marrige or being of Lawfull age (Item I Giveand Bequeth to My Loving Wife Elizabeth Robinson the plantation andTract of land Where I now Live Containing three hundred acres, withall my house hold Kitchen Furniture, one Negroe man Named Flander,and all my stock of Cattle Horses hogs & Sheep, During herNatural Life, and at her Decease the whole to go to my DaughterElizabeth Robinson, and her Ifsue, and if she Dies without Leavingliving Ifsue, that and the other Property already Left her Shall goto the Lawfull Ifsue of My Daughter Ann Courtney---and I MakeConstitute and ordain my loving Wife--Elizabeth Robinson to be myExecutris, and My good friend William Taylor Esqr of the Countyaforesaid, and May.r Thomas McFaddin of Salem County, to MyExecutors, in Trust, for my Said heirs,---
In Witnefs, whereof, I the Said AlexanderRobinson, have to this my last will, and Testament, Sett my hand, andSeal, the Day, and Year, above Writtin---
Alexander Robinson (SEAL)
Signed, Sealed, published, and Declared, by theTestator, as, and for his Last Will and Testament, In the presents ofus, who at his Request In his presence, and in the presence, of Eachother, have Subscribed
Sam.l P Taylor
Frances A Taylor
Recorded in Will Book A, page 2
Recorded 2nd of May 1800
William Taylor Exqr ordinary SumterDistrict
Bundle 81, Pkge 10