Will of former Charlotte Co., VA resident: George B. Elam 1845/1847


     Submitted by Annette E. Wetzel  23 Nov 1998


Will of George B. Elam, Edgefield District, South Carolina

State of South Carolina, Edgefield District

I, George B. Elam Senr. of the District and State aforesaid, planter,
being of sound and disposing mind and Memory, do make, ordain, and
declare the following to be my last Will and testament.

1st. I give and devise unto my four sons, viz. William F. Elam, George B.
Elam, Jr., Martin B. Elam, and Patrick H. Elam to be equally divided
between them and to their heirs forever My tract of land lying in Lincoln
County in the State of Georgia on Savannah River adjoining lands of John
Hardy, ---Nally & Walker & Sistrunk, near Ferguson Ferry, containing Nine

hundred and ninety acres more or less.

2nd. I give and bequesth unto my son William F. Elam and his heirs
forever the following negro slaves, viz. Henry, Charles, Emily and her
two children Edmund and Caroline, Elbert, Louisa, and Handy and the
future increase of the females.

3rd. I give and bequeath unto my son George B. Elam, Jr. to him and his
heirs forever, the following negro slaves, viz. Edmund, Phoeby, Lewis,
Will, George, Hannah and her two children Sarah and Jim and the future
increase of the females.

4th. I give and bequeath unto my son Martin B. Elam and his heirs forever
the following negro slaves, viz. Jack, Spencer, Moriah, Solomon Richmond,
Lucy and children Andrew & Green, and the future increase of the females.

5th. I give and bequeath unto my son Patrick H. Elam and his heirs
forever the following negro slaves, viz. Oliver, Abram, Dolphus, Reuben,
Violet, Matilda, Dilay and her two children Peter & Betsey and the future
increase of the females.

6th. I may deliver the negroes in the above clauses named in my lifetime
to my said sons, if so, it will be as a loan merely until my death.

7th. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Carolina P. Elam, the following
negro slaves viz. Henry Wood, Moses, Harriet, Elizabeth, Eliza and her
three children Rachel, Caroline and Jane with the future increase of the
females, to be held by my said daughter for the period of her natural
life, and at her death to be equally divided between such child or
children as she may leave living at her death and if any child of my said
daughter Should have died in her life time leaving child or children, he
or she or they to take their parent's Share.

8th. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Cornelia M. Elam, the following
negro Slaves Viz. Anderson, Osborn, Cook, Fairee, Harry, Alpha, Nancy and
her child Nick with the future increase of the females, to be held by my
said daughter Cornelia upon the same terms and provisions as are stated
above in regard to the slaves given to my daughter, Carolina P. Elam.

9th. It is my will that out of the residue and remainder of my estate
real and personal my just debts be paid, and the balance of my said
estate real and personal after payment of my debts I direct to be kept
together for the use and benefit of my wife Mary Elam and my Mother
Judith Elam during their lives, and the life of the survivor of them, and
at the death of the Survivor it is my will that all the Estate real and
personal hereby given to my wife and mother Shall be sold and the
proceeds equally divided between all my children in fee simple.


10th. It is my will that if any of my said children should die without
leaving a child or children surviving them, that the share of my said
child so dying Shall be equally divided between my surviving children,
the child or children of a deceased child to take the share of the said
deceased child, and this provision to relate to all the bequests of my
will.

11th. It is my Will that the foregoing specific bequests of slaves to my
two daughters shall be delivered to them respectively as they severally
marry or reach lawful age. And so in reference to their Share of the
estate given to my wife and mother for life, if the Estate of my wife and
mother should end before my daughters Marry or attain lawful age.
Otherwise when the said estate shall be ended as the case may be.

12th. I nominate and appoint my Wife Mary Elam, Executrix and my sons
William F. Elam and Patrick H. Elam Executors of this my last will and
testament, hereby revoking all others.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this the twelth
day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and
forty-five and in the Seventieth year of American Indendance.     Geo. B.
Elam, Sen. (Seal)

Signed, sealed and Acknowledged by the Testator in our presence  & by us
subscribed at his request in his presence and in the presence of each
other: John Adams, James D. Hammond, John (x) Jones.
Recorded in Book D, page 298, 299 & 300
March 18th, 1847, John Hill, O. E. D.
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