Will of Josiah EVANS, 1790

Contributed to Marlboro County SCGenWeb by Bushy Hartman, 30 Apr 2002

			   WILL OF
			JOSIAH EVANS

In the name of God Amen, I Josiah Evans of the State of South Carolina and
County of Marlborough being very sick and weak in body, but thanks be to God
of perfect mind and memory & calling to mind the mortality of my body do
make and ordain this my last Will and testament, that is to say as touching
such worldly estate which it has pleased God to blefs me with in this life,
I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner & form.
First.  I give and bequeath unto the Baptist church of Christ in the Welsh
neck the sum of three pounds Sterling, to be paid on demand after my Just
debts are discharged.

Secondly.  I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Catherine after all my
just debts and the legacy left to the Baptist church above mentioned are
paid, one third part of my estate (that is to say) one third part of all my
lands during her life, and one third of all my personal estate to her own
use and behoof forever.
Thirdly. Also I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Hannah after all
my just debts and the aforementioned legacy to the Baptist church are
discharged, One other third part of all my real & personal estate to her and
her heirs forever.

Fourthly. likewise I give and bequeath unto the child with which my beloved
wife is now pregnant with all the remaining ["third" written between lines.]
part of my real & personal estate if it should be born alive, and arrive if
a male to the age of twenty one years, or of a female to the age of
eighteen, or be married, to him or her & his or her heirs forever, But if
said child of which my wife is now pregnant should be still born or should
die before it arrives to the years aforesaid, then & in that case, the third
part  bequeathed to it as Just mentioned I give and bequeath to my  beloved
wife Catherine and my daughter Hannah in the following manner, that is to
say, one half of that third part of the land to my beloved wife Cath-

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erine during her life, and the half of said third part of the personal
estate to her and her heirs forever, and the other half of said part both
real & personal to my beloved daughter Hannah, Hannah, to her and her heirs
forever, moreover after the decease of my beloved wife Catherine the above
lands left to her to be equally divided between my daughter Hannah and the
child my wife is now pregnant with, to them and their heirs forever, The
division of the above mentioned Several parts is left to the discretion of
my executors, hereafter mentioned.

Fifthly.  And lastly I do nominate make and ordain my beloved friends Thomas
Evans, Evander McIver, Edward Edwards and John James Executors of this my
last Wiill and Testament  Revoking and renouncing all former wills whatever.
In Witnefs whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Sixth day of
February in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and
ninety.---------
						Josiah Evans (Seal)
Signed sealed published and
declared by the above named
Josiah Evans for and as his last
Will and Testament in the presence
of us
Edme* Botsford

Enoch Harry

Ann Evans

Recorded in Will Book A. 2nd March 1790

Case 1  Box 3  Page 11

J. Winfield, CLK.

[Note: Copied exactly as copy on microfilm including typos. *Denotes last
letter raised.]

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