State of South Carolina)
Sumter District----------)
In the Name of God Amen I, Jared White Being weake of Body But ofperfect Mind and Memory knowing it is appointed once for all men
to Dy, I therefore Recommend my Soul to God who gave it and myBody
to be buryied in a Decent Christian Like Maner at the Discresionof
my Excors as tuching Such worldly goods as it hath pleased God to
Blefs me with I wish and Desire them Managed & conducted inMannor
and form herafter Mentioned. Viz. First I will and Desire that
all my Just Debts be paid--Secondly I give to my Loving wifeElisebeth
White one Negro wench Named Dinah, Dureing Life allso I give
my wife During hir Life or widowhood all my Lands &Improvements.
Dureing hir life or widowhood in Either case the Land andImprovements
Shall fall to my Loving Son James Birch White and his heirsforever and in case
of his Deth before age or Lawfull heir the Said Lands to fall
to my brothers & Sisters children. I allso give to my sonJ.B. White
one Negro Man Named Derry to him and his heirs for Ever- Should
the said Negro Derry appear unfaithfull in his Duty I admit my
Extor. to Sell the Said Negro and put the Money to Intrust or pur-
chase a Negro, or Negroes for the use of my Son as aforesaid-and
if my Son should Dy without heir & my wife Dy or Marrey, theSaid
Negro to fall as the Land aforesaid-and all the remainder of my
Estate of whatsoever Nature or kind it Maybe to be Equally beDevided
between my wife Elisebeth White and my Son J.B. White Shear
and Shear A Like. Should my wife marrey & the property seemto be Demin-
shing, it is my will and Desire that my Extor Emedintley take of
my Sons part and place it in Sum good hands for the Security and
Improvement there of untill my Said Son should arrive to age or
Marry. Lastly I do hear by Nominate as my Extra, My Loving wife
Elisebeth White & my trust friends and Brothers Arther Whiteand
frindley White Extra to this my Last will and testamentconfirming
this and Revokeing all other will or willswhatsoever-----------------
As witnefs my hand and Seal this Seventh Day of Jan,ry in the yearof our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred andSeven---------------------------------------------------------------
Signed & Sealed in the Interlined Before Signed between the
presents of us------------ fourteenth & fifteenth Lines these
words--& his heirs for Ever---
D. White
H. Harven
Wm. Richbourg James White (SEAL)
(Recorded in Will Book A, Page 105)
(Recorded January 17th 1807)
William Taylor Ordy
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