Will of Mary Smith

In the Name of God Amen.  I Mary Smith of the County of Madison and State of Mississippi 
being of lawful age and calling to mind that all mankind are mortal, that this body must soon return to its 
Mother Earth and that the Spirit to God who gave it, I the said Mary Smith being of sound and disposing 
mind do make and constitute this my last will and testament, viz. I give and bequeath a negro girl now 
belonging to me named Rebecca aged about twelve years to my daughter Sarah A. Smith to have and to 
hold as her lawful __ after my death and that the said Sarah A. Smith do __ her note or notes to my other 
daughter Eliza Austin at any __ for three hundred dollars as a part of the valuation of said negro girl 
Rebecca, payable on demand.

It is nevertheless my intention that the girl Rebecca remain as my possession and under my control until my 
death and __ this __ it is obligating on my daughters Sarah A. Smith and Eliza Austin to see that my 
funeral expenses are __.  In testimony whereof I the said Mary Smith of the state and county aforesaid have 
set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty-eighth day of June AD 1854.	/s/ Mary Smith

The State of Mississippi, Madison County}  Personally appeared before the undersigned and Presiding 
Judge of the Probate Court for said county Thomas Coleman who being first duly sworn stated on oath that 
the __ paper purporting to be the last will and testament of Mary Smith dated the 28th day of June 1834 
was by the said Mary Smith signed sealed and published and declared by her to be her last will and 
testament on the day and year there mentioned in the presence of this deponent who also affixed the name 
of the said Mary Smith and applicant further states that at the time of said signing sealing and publication 
the said Mary Smith was over twenty one years of age, of sound mind and disposing mind and memory and 
not a named ____.	/s/ Thomas Coleman 	23rd August, 1834  

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