WILL OF CONSTANCE TALA DE ALBA - ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA

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Last Will of Constance Tala de Alba, County of Escambia, State of Florida
Filed and Admitted to Probate on the Oath of Joseph Rieva the third Day of October 
AD, 1858.  Recorded Book B, 199

In the name of God, Amen

I Constance Tala de Alba being of Sound mind but weak in bodily health do make this 
my last will and Testament.

I give and devise to my nephew Clement Rainas(?) all my estate real and personal 
except my two slaves Felicite aged forty five and Katrina aged thirty-seven years, 
both of whom it is my desire to emancipate I therefore devise to the said slaves 
their freedom from and after my decease.

I authorize and direct my executor hereinafter named to sell at public outcry so 
much and such part of my entire estate as he may think proper for the payment of my 
debts.
       
I nominate Manuel H. Hernandez as executor of this my last will.

In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand this twenty-seventh day of September 
1852.
                               
Her X mark:  Constance Tala deAlba 
                                   
Signed by the Testatrix as her last Will and Testament in our presence.

P. Gonzales
Joseph Rieva
Robt. B. S. Hargis