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Will of Henry Addington
In
the Name of God Amen. I Henry Adington of Union County
Ninty Six District and
State of South Caroline, Farmer, being
sick and weak in Body but of Perfect mind
Memory Thanks be to
Almighty God. Therefore Calling to mind the Mortality of
my
body and that it is appointed for all men once to die do think
fit to make
this my last will and Testament in manner and form
following (that is to say)
Principally, and first of all I
commend my soul into the Hands of Almighty who
gave it me, and
my Body to the Earth to be Interred in a Christian and descend
like
manner at the Discretion of my Ex. Nothing doubting but
at the general Resurrection
I shall Receive it again by the
Mighty Power of God, and as touching Such worldly
Estate
whereby it has Pleased God to bless me with, I give and
Bequeath in
manner and form following ----------------
Imprimas, I order that all my Just
Debts and Burial Expenses
be paid. -------------------------------
Secondly
I give and Bequeath unto my well Beloved Son William
Adington all my Plantation
or tract of Land Whereon I now Live
Provided also that he the Wm. Adington do
give his Mother
thirty Bushels of Corn two Hundred Pounds of Flower and one
hundred
Pounds of Pork and fodor for two Cows and that yearly
During her Natural Life
or Widow Hood. -------------------
Item. My Desire is that my Loving wife
Sarrah Adington shall
have three Pounds Sterling Paid to her our of my personal
Estate
beside one Cow and a year old the Choice of my Stock
with all my household furniture
during her Life or widowhood
and at her Decease the sd furniture to be Equally
Divided
between my three Daughters, Elizabeth, Sarah and Charolta
Adington
only Reserving my wifes Bed and Chest of Drawers
shall be given to my youngest
Daughter Charlota. ------------
Item. My Desire it that my two Daughters Elizabeth
and Sarah
is Each of them to have a bed and a Cow at their Marriage. --
Item.
My Desire is that my grand son Henry Addington shall
have three Pounds Sterling
and it to be put to Interest until
he arrives to the age of twenty one years.
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Item. I give and Bequeath unto my three sons
and two
Daughters John, James and Henry Adington, Bethena McClain and
Martha
Bruton, Each and Every one of them one Shiling
Sterling. ---------------------------------------
Item.
My Desire is that if there should be anything Remain
in paying of this Legasays
as above listed, my Son Wm.
Adington take it for his trouble, whome I Constitute
and
appoint with my trusty friend John Odell me Extors. to see
to and faithfuly
Comply with this my Last will and Testament. --
--------- Utterly Revoking and
By annulling all former wills
by me made. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand
affixed my Seal this 1st day of March 1787 --------------
Signed,
Sealed , Published and his
declared by Henry Adington to be his Henry Adington
Seal
last Will and Testament in Presence mark
of us ------
his
John
Garrett
mark
his State So Carolina
Jess Rush Union County
mark
personly came John Garrett
& Jess Rush and being duly sworn on the
holy Evenglist of
almighty God, saith the seen henry adington sign and
acknowledg
the with in will as his Last wil & testament and
was in his senses and proper
undr standing at the time and
Each of them was subscribing witness to the same
swore
subscribe to this 3th August 1787
his
John Garrett
Thos
Brandon J. P. mark
his
Jess Rush
mark
Transcription from:
Addington, a directory of the descendants of Henry and Sarah Addington of Union
County, South Carolina, by Naomi Louise Addington Patterson and Mary Jane Edwards,
Heritage Books, Bowie, Maryland, 1989.
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