Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....Couper, James Hamilton 1863 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 June 4, 2005, 4:44 pm Source: Will Book Written: 1863 In the name of God, Amen. I James Hamilton Couper of the Island of St. Simons, County of Glynn and State of Georgia, Planter, do make, constitute, and publish this Instrument of writing as my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all other Wills and papers of a Testamentary character by me heretofore made. 1st Imprimis: to my wife Caroline Georgia Couper, I give and bequeath my present house servants viz. Abraham, Abby, Daphne, Bulally, and Ellen; my place and household furniture of every description; my carriage, carriage and riding horses, and my paintings and framed engravings. 2nd Item: To my aforesaid wife Caroline Georgia Couper, I further give and bequeath my plantation on St. Simons Island known as Hamilton and Couper's Point. 3rd Item: To my aforesaid wife Caroline Georgia Couper, I further give and bequeath twenty of my negro slaves such as she may select; reference being mainly had to connections with her own gang. 4th Item: It is my will that my Executors shall sell and dispose of my plantations Cannon's Point on St. Simons Island and Altama on the South Branch of the Altamaha river Glynn County and all other landed property belonging to me, either at public or private sale as soon as it may be advantageously done. 5th Item: It is my will that my library shall be equally divided between my wife Caroline Georgia Couper and my surviving sons. 6th Item: To my son James Maxwell Couper I give and bequeath my chronometer watch. 7th Item: It is my will that the rest residue and remainder of my estate of every kind and description whatsoever whether real or personal, not herein before bequeathed or disposed of by this will, be applied, until my debts shall have been paid, to the payment of the installments and interest accruing on my debts. 8th Item: After my debts shall have been paid it is my will that the said remainder of my property be equally divided among my children then alive and the issue them in being of any child who may have married and died leaving a child or children; one share to each of my children then living and one share to the child or children of each deceased child who shall then take per stirpem (?) and not per capita. The shares above bequeathed to my daughters. I will and desire shall be conveyed by my Executors to my surviving sons the said share of each of my said daughters to be held by them in trust to the use of her while unmarried to her sole and separate use during covertures free from the debts and liabilities and control of her husband, to the use of her issue should any her survive to the use of such person or persons as she may by will appoint should she die without issue surviving, and should she die intestate and without any issue, to the use of her next of kin. Having hereinbefore made provisions for my wife, I leave her no share in this the residue of my property. To guard against unforeseen contingencies and to leave a sound discretion to my Executors, I fully authorize them, should they deem it necessary or for the interest of my estate, to sell at any time the whole of my property in the last item described as the "rest, residue, and remainder of my estate," and after the payment of my debts to divide the residue among my children and their descendants in the manner hereinbefore prescribed. Finally: I hereby appoint my wife Caroline Georgia Couper, my brother William Audley Couper, and my sons Alexander Wylly Couper, James Maxwell Couper, and Robert Hazlehurst Couper to be the Executrix and Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Three. Signed, sealed, and published in our presence by James Hamilton Couper as his last Will and Testament at whose request and in whose presence and the presence of each other, we have hereunto set our names as witnesses this 12th day of September A.D. 1863 G.A. Fraser Heriot L. Wylly W.P. Couper Additional Comments: Amy Hedrick OR Glynn County Genealogy & History Website OR File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/wills/couper282gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb