LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN HARRIS, DECEASED

South Carolina Abbeville District. 

In the name of God Amen.  I, John Harris of the District and State aforementioned, being of sound and disposing mind and memory but weak in body and calling to mind the uncertainty of life and being desirous to dispose of all such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with  I make and ordain this my last will and Testament. In manner following that is to say 1^st I desire that all my Just debts and funeral expenses be paid immediately after my decease out of such monies as may be on hand.  2^nd.  I give to my wife Milly Harris five Negros (to wit:) Dave and Elsey his wife and their two young children Jinny & Caty and a Negro man named Isaac.  I also give to my said wife the plantation whereon I now live containing one hundred acres with three other small pieces attached to said tract Amounting ninety one acres making in all one hundred and ninety one acres also give to my said wife one other tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres situate in the District aforesaid on the south bold Branch near one Henry Wideman now resides joining lands of Robert McFarlin, George McFarlin and others.  I also give to my said wife four Cows and calves her choice of my stock with two of my horse be in her taking her choice- I also give to my said wife all my household and kitchen furniture of every description with all my corn fodder, 10 hefers with one half of my stock of hogs all and singular the property above specified both real and personal the same to be during her natural life or widowhood and her decease.  Should she intermarry then it is my will and desire that the said property be equally divided among my children herein affirmed (to wit:) William, Robert, Elizabeth, Polly, John, Sarah , Caroline, Peggy, Milly, Luisa, Catherine and Thomas Harris, to them and them and their heirs forever.

3^rd.  All and singulur the residue of my property not above specified both real and personal, I desire that my Executors herein after mentioned immediately after my decease should sell the same at public sale and the proceeds thereof to be equally divided among my said children as is above named. When they arrive at the age of twenty-one years or marry as the case may be.  With the exception of two horses being a black horse that belongs to my said son William and a Gray hose that belongs to my son Robert which said Horses I have no claim to and (lastly)? I do hereby constitute and appoint my son William Harris and my friends Robert McCaslin and James Mcfarlan Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby resolving all former Wills & Testaments by me heretofore made . In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 5^th day of December eighteen hundred and thirty one._____Signed sealed published and declared as and for the last Will & Testament of the above named John Harris in presence of us.

Patrick Gibson                                                     John Harris    (SEAL)

S. WidemanJo

Jn Wideman

Proven by the oath of Joshua Wideman  I qualifice

Wm Harris J. P McFarlain Execd 12 Dec 1831

                                      Moses Taggert AVD