Will of James Chalmers Glenn July 20, 1851
Submitted by Kate Johnson   November 2003
Source: Orleans Parish 3rd District Court #4356)

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In the name of God, Amen, I, James Chalmers Glenn, being in good bodily health
and of sound and dis... mind and memory, calling to mind the frailty and
uncertainty of human life, and being desirous of settling my worldly affairs and
directing how the estates with which it has pleased God to bless me shall be
disposed of after my death, while I have the thoughts and capacity so to do, do
make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making
null and void all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made.  And first,
I commend my immortal being to Him who gave it and my body to the earth to be
buried with such ... or ...  by my .... hereinafter named.

And in my worldly estate, and all the property, real personal or ..., of which I
shall ... seized and possessed or so which I shall be invested at the time of my
decease, I devise and bequeath and.... thereafter in the manner following to
wit:

My will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses shall by my ...
hereinafter .... be paid out of my estate as soon after my decease as shall by
them be... convenient.

I give and bequeath to my brother David Chalmers Glenn his note (two unreadable
words) for seventeen hundred dollars now in my possession, I give and bequeath
to my brother Chalmers L. Glenn one thousand dollars, and the remainder of my
effects of every kind both personal and real I give and bequeath to my dear
brothers John Wilson Glenn and Archibald Glenn to be equally divided between
them.

I do appoint and .... My Brother Archibald Glenn to be the executor of ...

In testimony whereof I have this day the twentieth of July, eighteen hundren and
fifty-one A.D., I have inscribed (?) my name and affixed my seal in the City of
New Orleans, State of Louisiana, United States of America.

James C. Glenn

Later signed J. Kennedy, Judge, New Orleans, April 2, 1852 (witness to opening
of will)