Union County ScArchives Wills.....Potts, George May 9, 1801 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 June 9, 2015, 5:49 pm Source: South Carolina Archives Written: May 9, 1801 Recorded: March 16, 1802 Be it remembered that I George Potts of Union District in the state of South Carolina being stricken in years but of a sound and disposing mind and memory the Lord be praised therefore and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life have thought proper to make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say when it shall please the Lord to call me from this transitory world I recommend my soul to the mercy of God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner at the discression of my executors herein after named and as touching such worldly estate as it has pleased the Lord in his infinite mercy to bless me with I have thought proper to dispose thereof as follows First it is my will and desire that all my just debts doctors bill and funeral charges shall be first fully satisfied and paid out of my personal property and the remainder of my estate both real and personal I have thought fit to dispose of it as hereafter mentioned Imprimus I give and Bequeath unto my two sons Roger Potts and Jesse Potts one plantation or tract of land containing three hundred acres whereon they now live that is to say one hundred and fifty acres to each of them one hundred of these three hundred acres of land I had formerly laid out for my son Joseph Potts whereon he now lives on and joins one hundred acres laid out for my son Roger Potts which is my wil1 and desire that the same one hundred be equally divided between Roger Potts and Jesse Potts my two sons them and their heirs to hold and to have the same forever Item I give and bequeath to my son John Potts and his assigns forever one hundred acres of land being part of a tract of 400 acres which said one hundred I had surveyed and laid out for him which tract of land he sold to his brother Roger Potts his heirs and assigns forever and received value for the same with my consent and it is my will and desire that the said Roger Potts my son his heirs and assigns do hold the same forever whereon the said Roger Potts now lives Item I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Potts the sum of five shillings to be paid to him by my executors in twelve months after my decease if demanded Item I give and bequeath unto my three daughters as hereafter mentioned the following property to be paid unto them by my executors at the end of two years after my decease in the manner and form following Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Kiz Brown or her heirs the sum of ten dollars to be paid in property into her by my executors out of my real and personal estate at the end of two years after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto Isabella Lamb or her heirs one horse to the value of 40 dollars to be paid unto her by my executors at the end of two years after my decease out of my real and personal estate Item I give and bequeath unto Lyda Insco the sum of 40 dollars twenty four of which I paid her husband and it is my will that the balance be paid unto her by my executors out of my real and personal estate in two years after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth Addington my daughter the sum of twenty dollars to be paid unto her for the support of her son William Addington by my executors out of my real and personal estate at the end of two years after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto the heirs of my daughter Catharine Lee the sum of five shillings to be divided among them to be paid to them by my executors out of my real and personal estate in two years after my decease if demanded Item I give and bequeath to the heirs of my daughter Sarah Kelly the sum of five shilling to be paid unto them by my executors out of my real and personal estate at the end of two years after my decease if demanded Item It is my will that my personal estate shall be disposed of to the best advantage by my executors after my decease and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my two sons Roger Potts and Jesse Potts to be my executors to see this my last will and testament executed hereby revoking and making void all other and former wills and testaments by me heretofore made and declaring this sheet of paper written on one side only and no other to contain my last will and testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one Signed Sealed published and declared by the said George Potts to be his last will and testament in the presence of us Samuel Kanady John Kanady George (his X mark) Potts (Seal) Andrew Kelly Recorded in Will Book A, Page 148 Recorded 10 March 1802 Ben Haile, Ordy Box 3 Package 48 ----- South Carolina Union District Before me Benjamin Haile Ordinary of said district personally appeared Samuel Kennedy and Andrew Kelly two subscribing evidences and after being duly sworn in the Holy Evangelists of almighty God deposed that they were present and saw the within named George Potts sign seal publish and pronounce the within instrument of writing to be his last will and testament at which time the said George was to the best of their belief of sound & disposing mind & memory that they at his request witnesseth the execution thereof and also saw John Kennedy sign as a witnesses March 16th 1802 Ben. Haile, Ordinary Probated March 16, 1802 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/union/wills/potts91gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/scfiles/ File size: 6.1 Kb