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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF
THOMAS McCRARY

About 1733-1791

In the name of God Amen, I Thomas McCrary of Laurens County & state of
S. Carolina being in perfect mind & memory thanks be to god calling into
mind the mortality of my body & knowing it is appointed for all men over
to die, I do make & ordain this my last will & testament that is to say
principally & first of all, I give & recommend my soul into the hands of
almighty god, that give it & my body I recommend to the earth, to be
buried in a decent Christian form nothing [?] doubting but at the
General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power
of god & touching such worldly Estate, where of it hath pleased god to
bless me with in this life, I give, devise, and dispose of in the
following manner & form:

I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Young, one negro girl named
Rose.
Item I give & bequeath to my son, Matthew McCrary one negro fellow named
Sam, & a hundred & fifty acres of land, lying on the ridge joining John
Watson; Items I give & bequeath to my son, Thomas McCrary one Negro boy
Named Titus & ahundred & fifty acres of land joining David Batty & John
Grey & the Smith tools are for my son Chas McCrary and Mathew [sic].
Item I leave John Greer infull of all I allow him of my Estate one
Shilling Sterling, he being married to my daughter Jane offer to him &
this only.
Item I give my daughter Jane four shillings eightpence and if she does
not take up with John Greer, she is to be taken care of & supported well
out of the Estate I leave her in the care of her mother.
Item I give to my son, Moses McCrary, one Negro boy named Samson, and
one hundred acres of land joining Andrew McCrary and also Moses & George
McCrary to have two of the best horses to plow his land for them.
Item I give and bequeath to my son George McCrary one Negro boy Named
Peter & hundred acres of land joining the old survey & joining Thos
McCrary and my rifle gun.
Item I give and bequeath to my son, Christopher McCrary, one Negro boy
Named James.
Item I give & bequeath to my son, Andrew McCrary, one Negro girl Named
moll and the Mills betwixt Christopher & Andrew & the old survey & what
Land is joining that has not been mentioned.
Item I give & bequeath to my loved wife, Lettie McCrary her living &
support of the plantation & mills and the command of the house &
household goods & a negro girl named Dinah and a negro fellow named
Charles and at her death or marriage Dinah is to be given to my
daughters, Mary McCrary and Catherine McCrary. Charles is to be given to
my son, Matthew McCrary and to my son, Thos McCrary and my son, George
McCrary and likewise if negro Moll & Dinah breds my daughters Mary and
Catherine McCrary is to have the first 2 children and if they have any
more they are to be divided amongst the rest beginning at my two sons
Matthew and Thomas McCrary and so down wards and also my daughters Mary
and Catherine McCrary two cows to each of them & a horse & saddle apiece
and the rest of the cows to my wife, Lettie McCrary, and also I give her
the household furniture to dispose of among the Children as she pleases
also a horse as she may choose for her to ride but at her Marriage or
Death all these things to be divided amongst the Children. I do confirm
this & no other to be my last will testament whereof I have hereto set
my hand seal this 9th day of Jany in the year of our lord 1790 [?]. I
likewise ordain & make Thos Brandon & my wife Lettie McCrary & George
Young Executors of this my last will and testament.
Signed seald [sic] published pronounced & delivered by so Thos McCrary
as his last will & testament

George Bush Thos McCrary (Seal)
David Bailey

Recorded and proven date not available, Recorded in will book A, page
71.
Copy of will from Laurens Co. Library, 1017 W. Main St., Laurens SC
29360.

Submitted by:
J. Lucinda Weinberger
E-Mail: rosebud@interacs.com
34017 N 55th Street
Cave Creek AZ 85331

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