SOUTH CAROLINA - LAURENS COUNTY - Will of Joseph ADAIR, Sr. - 1788

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WILL OF JOSEPH ADAIR, SR.

 In the name of God, Amen. I JOSEPH ADAIR of the State of South Carolina and county  
of Laurens Cooper: being through  the abundant mercy of God, though weak in body yet 
of a sound and perfect understanding and memory; Do constitute this my last will and 
Testament and desire it may be received as such. First I most humbly bequeath my soul to 
God, my maker,    beseeching his most gracious exceptance of it. Through the all 
sufficient merits and meditations of my most compassionate  redeemer Jesus Christ who 
gave himself to be and attonement for my sins and is able to save to the uttermost all that 
come to  God by him seeing he ever liveth to make the intersession for them and who I 
trust will not reject me a returning penetant sinner when I come to him for mercy. In this 
hope and confidance I render up my soul with comfort, humbly beseeching the most
 Glorious and blessed Trinity, one God most Holy most mercifull and gratious to prepare 
me for my desolution and then to take me to himself into that plan of rest a incomparable 
felicity which he hath prepared for all that love his holy name Amen. 

Blessed be God I give my body to the earth from whence it was taken in full assurance of 
its resurrection from thence at the last day. As for my burial I desire it to be decent 
without Pomp or state at the discretion of my dear wife who I doubt not will                                      
manage it with all pre???????. 

 As to my worldly estate I will and possitively order that all my debts be paid, and next I 
give and bequeath to SUSANNA my  dearly beloved wife all my stock of black cattle and 
hogs with all the pewter of my dresser; and one hundred and Sixty(cannot  be read) 
dollars which is in the hands of my son JOSEPH ADAIR and all the store of my grain 
that may be mine at the time of  my death for her support also all the farming tools that 
belong to me at my death. Also my beads and bed furniture  to(illegeable) the same 
during her life, and at her decease to go to my son JAMES ADAIR; 
also to my son JOSEPH ADAIR I  give and bequeath the remainder of the continental 
money that remains in the estate. Also one long posted bedstead and my armed chair, 
also I give and bequeath unto my son JAMES ADAIR the one half of my Coopers Tools; 
and other utensils belonging to my trade with the whole of my wearing apparel, as also 
my chest at the decease of my wife; 
Also to my son  BENJAMIN ADAIR, I give and bequeath the other half of my Coopers 
Tools, and utensils belonging to my trade; as also the half of that twenty pounds old 
currency which he had of me for which he was to have pailled a grave hard, which he 
never performed; 
also to my daughter JEAN RAMMAGE, I give and bequeath my bracs scales; 
Also to my daughter SARAH ADAIR, I give and bequeath that other half of that twenty 
pound old currency which is in the hands of my son, BENJAMIN ADAIR; 
Also I give her at the death of my wife that Iron Pot that was her mothers with my iron 
crook; 
also I give and  bequeath to my daughter MARY OWINS my biggest iron pot, and my 
coarse flax hackle at the decease of her mother and to  her husband JOHN OWINS the 
one half of the sawed plank of my loft and floor; and if it shall please God to call me 
home by this present disease, it is my will that the money he owes me should go to defray 
my funeral charges. 
Also to ROBERT LONG my son-in-law I give and bequeath the other half of the plank of 
my loft and floor. 
And I do by these presents nominate constitute and appointand ordain as the Executors of 
this my last will and testament; my truly and well beloved sons JOSEPH   and JAMES 
ADAIR; 
and I do hereby Revoke and disallow and make null and void every former will by me 
made, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. 
In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my  seal this Ninth day of 
January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Eight. Signed 
and sealed in the presence of 

                                 James Montgomery Joseph Adair (Seal)
                                          Wm Bourlande
                                               his
                                         James (I) GREEK
                                              mark

                          Recorded in Book A. page 19. Proven date not available.
                              Original Will not in files of Probate Judge Office.

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