CHARLESTON DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA - WILL - Parmenas Way
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Charleston County, Will Book B 1786 – 1793, page 675

Will of Parmenas Way

	In the Name of God, Amen.  Twenty Ninth day of August in the Year of our
Lord One thousand 
Seven hundred and Seventy Eight. I Parmenas Way of Liberty County in the
State of Georgia, Planter, 
being by the blessing of God in health of Body, and of  Sound mind and
memory calling to mind the 
Mortality of my Body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die do
make and Ordain this my last 
Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all, I give and
Recommend my Soul into the hands 
of Almighty God that gave it, and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be
Buried in decent Christian 
Burial, at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the
General Resurrection I shall receive 
the same again by the mighty power of God, And as touching such Worldly
Estate where with it has 
pleased God to bless me in this life, I give Demise and dispose of the same
in the following manner and 
form.  First my Will is that all my Debts and Funeral Charges be first paid.
Item my Will is that my beloved 
Wife Elizabeth Way have the use of the Plantation where we now dwell, my
Mansion House, Barn, 
Kitchen and all other Buildings on said Plantation, and all the pasture
Lands, and that She have the liberty 
to Cut Timber for Building on said Plantation for Fencing for Barrels, or
Fire Wood, off either of my Tracts 
of Land as shall be most Convenient or agreeable to her, that She likewise
have the Use of half my Stock 
of Cattle, all my Sheep and Hogs, and all my Household Furniture while she
continues my Widow.  Item I 
likewise give to my said beloved Wife During her Natural like, the use of
the following Negroes and their 
Issue Viz:  Stepney, Guy, Anthony, Nanney, Betty, Soipio little Flora,
little Nero, little Daphney, and old 
Flora, and half of my Horses, Item I give to my beloved Son Parmenas Way the
use of all my other Lands 
and Negroes, and the other half of my Stock of Cattle and Horses, my Wearing
Apparel and my Watch.  
Item after the death of my Said beloved Wife, I give and Bequeath to my
beloved Grand Daughter Martha 
Way my Negro Girl called Little flora, and her Issue, and one Feather Bed
and Furniture to her heirs and 
Assigns for ever.  Item then I give and Bequeath to my beloved and only Son
Parmenas Way, all the rest 
of my Estate both real and personal to him his Heirs and Assigns for ever. 
And that this my last Will and 
Testament may be carried into full Effect I Constitute make & ordain my dear
Wife Elizabeth Way my 
Executrix, and my beloved Son Parmenas Way, and my Trusty friends Thomas
Sumner and Thomas 
Baker my Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and I do hereby
utterly disallow, Revoke, and 
disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies, bequests and
Executors by me in any 
ways before named Willed and Bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this, and
no other to be my last Will 
and Testament.  In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the
day and Year above 
Written.

						Parmenas Way  
Signed Sealed published pronounced, and declared by the Said Parmenas Way as
his last Will and 
Testament in the presence of us.

Palmer Goulding                         Palmer Goulding Junr                
     Mary Goulding

Codicil to the within Will, Item it is my Will and desire that as I have
been driven from my habitation in 
Georgia And thereby suffered much loss that a Tract of Two hundred Acres of
Land Joining Lands of 
Richard Howley & William Davis, shall be sold for payment of Lawfull debts
as soon as my family may be 
permited to return again to Georgia. Item it is likewise my desire that my
Executors within mentioned Shall 
Charge Commissions on all my Transactions on the Estate of Thomas Pecock
this I declare to be my 
desire and Acknowledge it to be a Codicil to my Will this March the 1. 1779.

						Parmenas Way

Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of Evidences
Benjamin Andrew		Peter Cooper			Mary Cooper

Proved (by Virtue of a dedimus from Charles Lining Esquire O.C.T.D.) Before
Thomas Gough Esquire 
May. 15.1792
Examined  87  7   Co.  Sh.  }   C.L.