Friend of Friends Friday - Will of John Caskey 1785

Following is an image and transcription of the 1785 will of John Caskey of Craven County, South Carolina. It has been transcribed exactly as written.

In the Name of God Amen, I John Caskey of Craven Countey

otherwise Chaster in Camden District and State of South Carolina planter

Being Mindfull of the unsertintey of this trasitery Woreld & Knowing that

that it is Appointed for all Men once to Die do Make Constitute and Appoi

int this to be my Last Will and testament Being of perfect Mind Memory

and understanding first and principally I Recommend my Soul to the

Almightey God Who Give it Nothing Doubting but at the Resurection I

Shall stand in my flesh and see God and as to my Bodey I Recomend to the

Dust there to be Buried in A Christian and Desant like manner at the

Discretion of my Executors hereafter Named, and as toucing Such Worldy

Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with I Devide and Dispose of in Maner

and form following that is to Say first and prinsabelly, I allow all my

Lawfull Debtes and Demands to be paid by my Executors, and my Nego fellowe

Named [blank] my Waggin and still and two horses I allow to be disposed of at

the Discretion of my Executors, I bequeth to my well beloved Wife Ester Caskey

one hundred acres of this plantation Whereon I now live with all the

Improvements During her Widowhood and at the End of that to fall in to

My Dearly beloved Daughter Izebell and I do leave and bequeth all the

Remainder of my Land Contaning three hundred and fiftey Acres Equally

to be Diveded Amongest my four Sones, I bequeth to my well beloved

Daughter Marey Caskey my Negro Wench Named Keat and I allow all my

plantation tools to be Continued on the plantaton During my well beloved

Wifes Widowhood and as for the Remainder of all my Estate not before-

mentioned I leave it Equally to be Diveded Amongest my Six Children

and my Beloved Wife Each one an Equall proportion, and I do Constitute

and Ordain and Appoint A^rchibald Coulton and Andrew Graham and my

well beloved Wife Ester Caskey to my Lawfull Executors of  this my Last

Will and Testement, Signed Sealed Published and prounenced and

Declared to be my last Will and Testement in presantes of us ^{^this th}19 day

of September Anodomni 1785.

David Graham   }                                                         John Caskey {LS}

Andrew Graham}

John Graham      }

 

[Source: Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, will of John Caskey, dated 19 September 1785; “South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977,” digital images, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 17 July 2011); the Caskey document is imaged as p. 342 of documents within the section “Camden, Kershaw, Estate record books, 1782-1823, Vol. A1).]

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