Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....McRae, John A. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002972 March 17, 2006, 4:57 pm Source: Lowndes County, Alabama Will Book C, Pages 24-25 Written: unk Recorded: December 26, 1863 State of Alabama Lowndes County In the Name of God, Amen! I, John A. McRae of Lowndes & State aforesaid, over the age of twenty-one years, being in failing health but of sound mind and memory, do make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and annulling all other wills and codicil heretofore made. Item 1st: I will that all my slaves be sold by my Executor hereinafter nominated in this Will in the manner as follows: Mordacai and his wife Mary shall be sold together and not separated, Landy and his wife, Catherine and their child Edward shall be sold together, Tom and his wife Nancy and their child, Dolphus shall be sold together, Betty and her child Laven shall be sold together, Mangum and his wife, Harriet and their children shall be sold together (Beck and Harriet), Joe and his wife, Lucy and their children, General, Anderson, Anthony, Francis, Daniel & Jeff shall be sold together, and if any remain heretofore named shall have any child or children then my Executor shall sell such child or children with their mothers and no member of any family of my negroes shall be sold separate from his or her family. Henry and Madison shall be sold separately. All of my said slaves shall be sold by my Executors on a credit of one or two years in equal installments with interest from date of sale. Item 2nd: I will that my land be sold by my Executors on a credit of one, two, three, four and five years in equal installments with interest from date of sale. But neither my land nor negro slaves shall be sold until the crop with which they may be engaged in making at the time of my death shall be gathered. Item 3rd: My Executors shall all the corn, fodder, cotton and other produce and all stick of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs &c, all the farming utensils, wagons, harness &c on my plantation or to which I may be interested on a credit of not less than one year with interest from date of sale. Item 4th: My Executors shall take charge of all my money that may be on hand at the time of my death and shall collect all money that may be due me by note, bond, bill amount or otherwise, and are hereby directed to pay my brother Duncan McRae of Covington County, Alabama One hundred dollars per annum until my Estate shall be finally settled, and if my said Brother shall died before said settlement of my Estate, then the amount of fifty dollars shall be paid annually to his widow, if surviving him, until my Executors shall finally settle my Estate. Item 5th: I bequeath unto Harbert [Herbert] NeSmith, son of the late S. P. NeSmith of Hayneville, Alabama, fifty dollars per annum for six years, to be paid by my Executors toward the education of said Hubert [Herbert] NeSmith. Item 6th: I bequeath all the remainder of my Estate after the same shall have been turned into money as above provided for as follows: Three-fourths of the same to the children of my brother, Duncan McRae, to wit: Margaret McManone of Covington County, Alabama, John McRae and James McRae both of the State of Arkansas, Alexander McRae of Lowndes County, Alabama, Daniel D McRae of the State of Texas, and William M. McRae of Covington County, share and share alike, and I hereby charger upon the legacies given to said children of said Duncan McRae, that the said children shall pay one hundred dollars per annum to the said Duncan McRae during his life, and at his death to his widow surviving hem during her life. I bequeath the remaining one fourth of the residue of my Estate to Christopher McRae and his two sisters (their names not known) of Dallas County, Alabama, children of Alexander McRae, my deceased brother. Item 7th: I hereby name and appoint my friends John P. Streety and Testane [Tristam] McCall of Lowndes County, Alabama, Executors of this my last Will and testament. John A. McRae Witnesses, signed sealed & published on [in] our presence and we signed as witnesses in the presence of Testator and in the presence of each other after the interlineations in the third line of the third page was made by direction of Testator. R. M. Williamson Duncan McCall State of Alabama Lowndes County Probate Court of said County. In the Matter of the Probate of the Last Will and testament of Jon A. McRae, deceased. Before me, James W. Graham, Judge of the said Court, personally appeared in open Court Richard M. Williamson who having been by me duly sworn and examined, did and does depose and say on oath, that he and Duncan McCall are each subscribing witnesses to the instrument or [of] writing now show to him, and which purports to be the last will and testament of John A. McRae, deceased, late an inhabitant of this County, that said John A. McRae, since deceased, signed and executed the said instrument on the day the same bears date, and declared the same to be his last will and testament, and that affiant together with the other witness set their signatures hereto, on the day the same bears date as subscribing witnesses, and in the presence of said Testator, that said Testator was of sound mind and disposing memory, and in the opinion of deponent, was fully capable of making his will at the time the same was so made as aforesaid, Affiant further states that said Testator was on the day of the date of said will, of the full age of twenty-one years and upwards. R. M. Williamson Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th Dec 1864 James W. Graham Judge of Probate File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/wills/willbookc/mcrae144gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.2 Kb