COLLETON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - WILL - Joseph ANDREW, Sr., 1743
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South Carolina
Wills (WPA Transcription)
Vol. 5 p. 274-275

Joseph Andrew

In the Name of God Amen I Joseph Andrew of Colleton County in St. Bartholomew 
Parish in the province of South Carolina being sick and weak in Body but 
Sound in mind and memory Blessed Be God Do Constitute this my Last Will and 
Testament and Desire that it may received as Such by all People, --
Impremis  I Give and Bequeath to my son Joseph Andrew all my Estate both 
Real and Personal to him and the Heirs of his Body for ever But if it should so 
Happen that my Son Should Dy without Issue then and in such Case my will is 
that my whole Estate Both Real and Personal shall go to and Belong to the 
Next Male Heir of the Name and Family and if the said next Male Heir Should Dy 
without Male Issue then it shall go to the next Male Heir and so on in the 
Male Line Successively for ever - It is my will a ___ is that if any Heir 
after my Son Joseph's Decease (Not of his Body Shall inherit my Estate then 
and in such Case He Shall Cearfully make a Distinction Between that Part of 
his Estate Decended to him from me and any other part of his Estate whatso ____ 
that so they may not be ___ one into the other and so Confounded together no 
but that they may be separated if need be.  That is to Say not only the 
original stock of Negroes and Chattles but Susessively according to Generations 
for ever.
	Item my will also is that my sister Ann Campbell Shall Enjoy the Lease 
She now Lives on until it shall be Expired and of her the Expiration of the said 
Lease I Impower my Executors Hereafter mentioned who shall have all Powers (and 
my will is that they Lease to Her for the Term of Twenty Years a Plantation of 
Land Containing one Hundred Acres in Sum Convenient Place of my Lands as they 
shall think most proper.
	Item my Will also is that my sister Hannah Murphy Shall have her 
Residence on Sum part of my Lands (according to the Discretion of my Executors) 
Dureing Her natural Life:
	Item  my will also that after my Just Debts are paid (which are to be 
paid as it is made on the Plantation) I Give and Bequeath one Negro to my sister 
Hannah Murphey which said Negro Shall be bought for her whom Negros Shall be 
again Imported into this province.  I Appoint my Nephe John Andrew and my Nephe 
Thomas Andrew and my friend John Mitchell to be Executors of this my Last Will 
and Testament my will also is that my Son Joseph Andrew be Deem'd of full age 
to Act for Himself at twenty years.  In Witness Whereof I've Hereunto Set my 
hand and seal this 9th Day of December 1743.
Signed Sealed and Deliver'd in Presents of us}
Thomas Melven				Joseph Andrew
Mary Melven
Elizabeth Dideott

	This Will was Proved by Virtue of a Dedimus Before Charles Wright Esqr 
the 5th day of March 1743 at the same time Qualifies the Exors.

Recorded in Will Book 1740 - 1747  Page 166