Will of Jonathan Bostwick, Williamsburg, South Carolina

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Will of Jonathan Bostwick

State of South Carolina
Williamsburg District

     I, Jonathan Bostwick, of the State and district aforesd, 
Planter, have with my own hand wrote this instrument of writing, 
designed to be my last will and Testament, while I retain my full 
powers of Reflection, and first it is my will and desire, if 
convenient and practable, that my body, after my decease, be buried 
in my own burial ground as near the remains of my late wife Margaret 
Bostwick, as practable, but at the discretion of my executors to be 
hereafter named.
     I do therefore require my executors to pay all my just debts as 
soon as possible can be done, and in particular one hundred dollars 
to my son Rob Bostwick; likewise I should wish my library of books to 
be sold at public auction, except my family Bible, which I give to my 
son Henry H. Bostwick, together with my watch, which I wish him to 
keep as a token of my love.
     Likewise I should wish my carpenter's tools and all the most 
useless of the plantation tools, Household and kitchen furniture, 
together with what of my stock can be best spared, at the discretion 
of my executors, and it is my wish that the plantation may be kept up 
and that my children should find a home there, until a general 
divided shall take place, which I could wish might be protracted 
until my younger children finish their education, which is left at 
the discretion of my executors.
     I likewise desire that each one of my children retain and keep 
the cattle now in their marks or is acknowledged to belong to them by 
the other heirs, and as some years ago I gave to my son, Henry H. 
Bostwick, a tract of land called the Wolfpit tract, containing 100 
acres and made him title to same, and as I purchased a tract of land 
of Wm Scariff, joining his home tract, I wish the said Henry to give 
up the Wolfpit tract to the estate and in lieu of that I give him the 
Scariff tract, if he agrees, or otherwise the Scariff tract to be 
considered as part of my real estate and to be divided among my 
children, share and share alike, and moreover I allow my Executors, 
at a proper age, to put my sons Jefferson and I. Dayton Bostwick to 
trade if practable and I farther authorize my executors to sell and 
dispose of any part or all of m real estate, if it can be done with 
advantage to the other children and in all things to act to the 
benefit of the family, and at the devising and final settlement of my 
estate, I will and desire all my children, both in real and personal 
property, to share and share alike, but in case one of my children 
should die or leave no heirs of their body, lawfully begotten, that 
then in that case the part that should have fallen to them shall 
return to the surviving heirs of my Estate.
     And I further give to my son, Robert Bostwick, my Baley 
Dictionary, as a pledge of my affection and to my son, William M. 
Bostwick, my rifle gun and my silver mounted sword as a token of my 
love and the rest of my estate both real and personal, I would wish 
to be disposed of to the best advantage at the discretion of my 
executors.  And I do hereby constitute and appoint my sons Henry H. 
Bostwick, Robert Bostwick, and William M. Bostwick, my only and sole 
executors of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and 
disannulling all and every will by me made, declaring this and no 
other to be my last Will and testament, in witness whereof I have 
signed my name and affixed my seal, this 26th October 1814.

                               Jonathan Bostwick, [L.SL]
Proved before me, David McClary,
Ordinary of Williamsburg District,
the 26th Day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fourteen.