Anderson County ScArchives Will Records.....Harper, John, November 15, 1844
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Recorded in Will book B, page 200  
Recorded May 2 1845  
Proved May 2, 1845  
William Magee  O. A. D.  
Roll No. 1001  
     
     
Will of John Harper  
    
in the name of God amen I John Harper of the State of South Carolina Anderson 
District being of Sound and disposing mind and memory in Common helth of body 
and cauling to mind the uncertainty of life and being desirous to dispose of all 
such worldly Estate as it has pleased God to bless me with do make and ordain 
this my last will in manner following that is to say I desire my Just Debts 
bural Expences &C be first pade out of my Estate and that the ballance that is 
all my Estate both rail & pirsenal Shold remain as I leave it under the Cear and 
mammagemt of my Executor  ____  ___ (There appears to be a couple of words here 
that are unreadable) For the support of my wife Martha dureing hir life and my 
Desire further is that my three daughters which is now with us namely Mary 
Zilpha and Martha that they Shold remain with thare mother and inJoy a Shear of 
the bennefits of my Estate but if Either of them Shold marrey that they Shold 
have as much Given them which has marred and left us or more if the Ballance Can 
Convently Spare it and if either of Them or all remain single until thare 
Mothers Death my desire is that they shold hold persesion of all my Estate So 
long as thare is one of them a lieving unmarred unless the last one wold Consent 
to brake up then my desire is that all the remains of my Estate Shold ne brought 
to Sale and an Equal Distributation made with all my Legatees having regard to 
what they have recd My desire further is that if my oldest Daughter Shold at 
aney time be come out of a home that is Nancy that She have leave to have hir a 
house bilt on my land and lieve thate or in the house with them So long as aney 
of the other Girls lievs thare if it Shold be the appinnion of my Executors 
thaey Cold better the condition of the famuelly & not inger the Estate to Sell 
whare I now lieve & by Sum whar in the District it is my desire that they Shold 
do so & the land so Changed for Shold be of my Estate & dispsed of as above 
mensiond and Lastly I do Constitue and appoint my Sons John & Thomas Executors  
&  Mary my daughter Executrix of this my last will and testament by me made in 
testamonay whareof I have hier unto Set my hand and affixt my Seal this 
fifteenth of November 1844.  Signed Seald published and declared as and for the 
last will and testament of the above named John Harper ithe presence of us.  
John Harper (LS)  
test  Alfred Kelley test Jasper Williams test Lewis Cooley  

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