WILL OF ZACHARIAH FOXWORTH

 

In the Name of God Amen) I Zachariah Foxworth ofSumter District & State of South Carolina Planter being Sick inbody but of Perfect mind & Memory thanks be given unto Godtherefore and Calling to Mind the mortality of my body & knowingthat it Is appointed unto all men once to die do therefore make &ordane this to be my last Will & Testament--Imprimis First &Princaplely I give & recommend my Soul into the hands of AlmightyGod who give it in Sure & Certain hopes of the resurrection &my body I commit to the earth to be buried in a deacent &Christiant manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter to benamed and for Such Worldly Goods as it has pleased God to Blefs mewith In this life I give bequeath & dispose in the followingmanner and form that is to say first I give & desire that all myLawfull Debts be payd--

Item) I give & bequeath unto ElexanderFoxworth thirty Dollars to be paid him out of my Estate at thedescretion of my Executors or at the age of twenty one--Item) It ismy will & desire that the hole of my estate be Sold except forprovitions for the Support of my Mother and hands to make and housthe Crop to geather with two pots dutch oven frying pan Coopers waretwo hors my riding Saddle Chest Bophat Table three Chears two plows& gears two Jugs two Sows & Nine year ole Shots which Is tobe give up to my Mother hir lifetime then to return back to my Estate& Sold & devided as will as all the rest of my Estate equallybetween fore Children of Ann Smith the wife of John Smith) which isto Say Elizabeth Smith Selphey Smith Nancy Ann Smith & Mary SmithItem) It is my will & desire that If Ann Smith wishes to Com& live at my plantation that She may have full liberty hirlifetime without being mislested If not that It be Sold with the restof the Estate and Shood She Com to the place It to be Sold after hirdeath & devided Equally between hir fore Children as abovementioned---

Item) It is my will & desire that the hole ofmy Estate be publackley Sold & the money arising from the Salesbe Cept on Interest & Equally devided between Elizabeth ZilpeySmith Nancy ann Smith & Mary Smith whin they arrive to the age oftwenty one or Marriage Except the Bequeath before mentioned--Item) Itis my will & desire that Elexander Foxworth have the forth of allthe Crop that Is made on my Posesions this year If in Case he isfaithful in maken & housing it & if not that my Executorsdismifs him at thear pleasure Item) It is my will & desir that myExecutors hiar a hand to asist in maken the present Crop on handsEquevelent as opertunity will allow--Item) it is my desire after theCrop Is made & housed that it be Sold a devided as abovementioned---

I do hereby utterly revoke Disanul & Disallowall other former Wills by me made allowing this to be my last will& Testament & I do alsow Appoint John Baker Joseph Swales& Stephen Jones Executors of my last will & Testament Inwitnefs whereof I have sat my hand & Seal this Seventh day of Mayone thousand Eigh hundred & Eigh

 

Zachariah Foxworth (SEAL)

 

Signed Sealed publackley prounounced &declared to be the last Will & Testament of the Testator in thepresents of---

John Frierson

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Socerasy x Playr

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Recorded in Will Book A, page 96

Recorded July 30th 1808

William Kennedy J. P.

Bundle 35, Pkge 2