Will

of

JOHN McDONALD

 

South Carolina )

Sumter District)

 

                          In the name of God Amen, I, John McDonald of the said district & State, being of sound and disposing mind & memory, (Thanks be to the Lord for the same)  do hereby declare this to be my last Will & testament. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     In the first place, I direct my body to be decently interred & I commit my soul to Him who gave it .-----

 

I give & bequeath to my daughter Sarah R. McDonald two hundred dollars in money - the six following

slaves, to wit, Rachel, Marinda, Caroline, Tom, Reuben & Martin, with the increase of the females, and her choice of two beds & bed furniture, and should the said Sarah R. McDonald die without leaving child or children, the said negroes at her death to be equally divided between John McDonald my son if alive & without child or children, & my surviving grand-children - each family of grand children to take among them one share, & my son John to take a like share.

 

    I give and bequeath to my son John McDonald the three following negro slaves, to wit, Brister, Susey & Bob with the increase of the females, together with the next choice of two beds & bed furniture, and should the said John McDonald die without leaving child or children,  the said negroes at his death to be equally divided between my daughter Sarah R. McDonald if alive & without child or children, & my surviving grandchildren, each family of grand children to take among them one share, & my daughter Sarah R. to take a like share.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

     I give and bequeath  to the children of Jared & Ann Laws, one negro girl Amelia & her future increase.

 

    All the rest & residue of my personal estate and my real estate I give, devise & bequeath to Sarah R. McDonald if unmarried, or without children or child, John McDonald if unmarried or without children or child, and the child or children of Thomas and Mary Commander – the child or children of George & Martha Laws the child or children of Jared & Ann Laws - and the child or children of William & Eliza Green - the child or children of each respectively to take among them one share or portion - and should my daughter Sarah R. McDonald have a child or children living at my death or my son John McDonald have a child or children living at my death, then the child or children of the said Sarah R. McDonald & John McDonald shall respectively take the share or portion by the first part of this clause given, devised & bequeathed to the said Sarah R. McDonald & the said John McDonald if unmarried or without children and should the said Sarah R. McDonald die without leaving child or children, then her share or portion of & in to the property real & personal, devised & bequeathed by this clause to be equally divided between my son the said John McDonald if alive and without child or children, & my surviving grand children, each family of grand children to take among them one part or share & my said son John McDonald to take a like share- and should my son the said John McDonald die without leaving child or children, then his share or portion of & in to the property real & personal divised & bequeathed by this clause to be equally divided between my daughter the said Sarah R. McDonald if alive & without child or children, & my surviving grand children, each family of grand children to take among them one part or share & my said daughter Sarah R. McDonald to take a like share.---------------------------------------------------------------

 

    I nominate & appoint my friends James W. English & Alfred Scarborough Executors to this my last Will & Testament - & I exhort my children & grandchildren to peace & harmony.-----------------------------    In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal, this, fifteenth day of March Eighteen hundred & thirty nine.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   

 

Signed, published & declared by the         )

said John McDonald to be his last Will     )

& testament in the presence of us who      )                              John McDonald   (SEAL)

have hereunto subscribed our names as    )

witnesses in the presence of the testator   )

 

F.J. Moses

 

Wm. M. Delarme

 

Wm. M. Miller

 

(Recorded in Will Book D  2 Pge 315)

Recorded 18th Day of Dec. 1843

Lewis Ordy

Bundle 125 Pkge 18