Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....Couper, John [Jr.] October 15, 1833
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Source: Inventories & Appraisements Vol. D Pg. 341
Written: October 15, 1833

I John Couper Junr of the County of Glynn and State of Georgia, Planter, Do 
make constitute and ordain this to be my last will and Testament, revoking all 
others.  It is my will that on my decease should I die leaving any issue by my 
Wife Sophia or any be born to me by her after my death, that my property of 
every kind & description whatsoever, be divided equally between my said Wife 
and such child or children, share and share alike in the manner and under the 
conditions herein after prescribed but should I die without such issue and 
none be born to me by my said wife after my death  then it is my will that the 
whole of my property aforesaid be made over to my said Wife in manner as 
follows.  The property which by this instrument I will to my said Wife Sophia--
I give and bequeath to my brother James Hamilton Couper and on his decease to 
his legally appointed Executors in trust for her sole benefit and use and not 
subject to the debts or control of any husband or husbands that she may 
hereafter have but to be subject to her disposal at her Decease in any way 
that she may see fit.  Should any of my aforesaid issue be females, then I 
give and bequeath the share or shares hereinbefore [illegible word] to her or 
them to my Wife Sophia and my brother James Hamilton Couper in trust 
nevertheless for the sole use and benefit of my said Daughter or Daughters and 
their heirs, and not to be subject to the debts or contracts of any husband 
that they may have, should any of my aforesaid issue be a boy or boys then It 
is my Will that his or their share or shares shall be paid over the him or 
them as he arrives at the age of twenty five years and not sooner.  I do 
hereby appoint my Wife Sophia and my brother James Hamilton Couper to be the 
Executrix and Executors of this my last will and Testament with full power to 
sell and reinvest the whole or any part of my Estate in such manner and at 
such times as they may deign most for the interest of my Estate.
	In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth 
day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hundred & thirty 
three.

John Couper Junr.

Signed and sealed in our presence and by the testator declared to be his last 
Will & Testament Alexander Mitchell, W.H. Proudfoot, Reubin King




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