- 1840 - MS, LaFayette Co., [As transcribed by Peggy Calk]
-
- WILL OF REV. WILLIAM REDWINE
- WRITTEN 18 SEP 1840-ANNEXED 7 DEC 1841
- AT ; OXFORD, LA FAYETTE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
-
- In the Name of God Amen
- I William Redwine weak in boddy but sound in mind and memory
as is
- appointed for man to die and afte that Judgement. I make
this my last
- will and testimony. First I will my spirit to God who gave
it and my
- boddy to the dust from whence it came. As touching the worldly
goods
- that All mighty God has bestowed on me I wish all my just
dets paid. I
- then give and bequeath to my dear beloved Wife Jane my lands
and
- servants and stock of every kinds and goods and chattles
and the whole
- that I am worth during her Natural life should Jane see propper
to move
- she can sell the land at her own pleasure and after her departure
I give
- all the benefits arising from Nancy to Francis Matthews the
said Negro
- to be hired out by my execuetrix every year and the said
Francis
- Matthews and her children to enjoy her proffits or her hire
or bid her
- of at the sale as she may see proper should frances Mathes
Decease I
- wish then to sd negro nance to return to the family again
and her
- children receive one hundred dollars out of her Value or
out of my
- Esstate I then give and bequath to all my daughters one hundred
Dollars
- Each Vz. Sintha Kelly MalindaHunt, Luviza R Malden, Harriett
M Mathes and
- I wish Catharine Joisey and Deana & Asberry Chappel Sewe
My grand
- children to have one hundred dollars out of my Esstate that
is twenty
- five dolla Each and Jane R Sewel Two hundred dollars Should
thare be any
- over after all Expencis is paid I wish it to be Equeally
devided among
- all my Children and Sewels orphants coming as one Child.
Should the
- above named nigro nance die before the devition I wish Frances
Mathiss
- then to come in and draw an Equeal Share with the rest of
my
- Children____Should William C. Redwine Jun fail to pay the
hire of a
- Certain negro man by the name of Jeff I then wish my Executrix
to sell
- him at sufficent time for the use of Joshua Sewels hiers
as
- administrator for Said Josshua sewel as the papers will show
I wish no
- letters of appraisment on my Esstate at all and my Executrix
to give no
- securety. Should William C. Redwine pay punctualy the hire
of sd Jess I
- whish my wife Jane Redwine to make a presant of sd. negro
Jess to him__I
- here by appoint Hullum D Redwine and Thomas Malden as Executrix
to the
- above named will given under my hand and seal this Eighteenth
day of
- september 1840
- Test
- John Wilson Wm Redwine (signed)
- Jesse Tatum
- Wm M Moring
-
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- William
C Redwine's will - 1.9megs,
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