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Hardy Sellers and Mary Cook are my 5th Great Grandparents (Maternal lineage).
The State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield District}
I Hardy Sellers, Sr. of said State and District, do make ordained and constitute this my Last Will and Testament.
1st - My son John Sellers who sometime since moved to the West
has received from me one track a land on Thompson’s Creek worth six hundred
dollars, [ $600] one Negro man names Ned worth five hundred dollars [$500] and
sixty [$60] dollars in money which I gave him as a full share of my estate, both
real and personal.
2nd - My son Abraham Sellers I had previously given one Negro
man named Jacob, worth five hundred dollars [ $500] besides sundry other
articles I have not named , it is my will and I give him two other Negros viz Louis
a boy and Penelope a girl to be his full share of my estate both real and
personal.
3rd - My son Philip Sellers has received from the one track of
land on Thompson’s Creek worth six hundred dollars [$600], one Negro woman worth
four hundred dollars [$400] I also give him three five hundred dollars [$300]
to be a full share of my estate both real and personal.
4th – My son Richard Sellers who lives in a Western country has
received from me one wagon worth one hundred dollars [$100] and one hundred dollars
[$100] in money, one Negro woman named Rhoda worth six hundred dollars [$600],
and I give to his lawful begotten children three hundred dollars [$300] to be
equally divided between them as they arrive to the age of twenty-one [21] years
to be received as herein after directed to be his full share of my estate both
real and personal.
5th - My daughter Mary Gaddy has received from me two Negros
some money and so forth to the amount of her share of my estate both real and
personal for which her husband Thomas Gaddy has given me a receipt to that it
effect.
6th - To the three children on my deceased daughter Phoebe Gulledge
viz: Elisha Gulledge, James Gulledge, Phoebe Gulledge, I give to each three
hundred dollars [$300] to bear interest from my death until they arrived to twenty-one
[21] years of age which sum is to be a full share of my estate both real and
personal to the three last children named.
7th – To the son of my deceased daughter Jane Briley, Iverson
L. Briley I give three hundred dollars [$300] to bear interest from my death
until he arrives to the age of 21 years which is to be false is full share of
my estate both real and personal.
8th - It is my will that my Executors sell my two tracts of
land on Cruises Branch and one on Black Creek and such other of my property as
are not disposed of such a stock, crops, household and kitchen furniture and
etc to the amount of the legacies given and to be sold at their discretion in
all legacies debts and expenses being provided for by my Executors then the
balance of my estate not disposed of I given dispose of in the following manner.
It is my will that the tract of land on which I live be divided in the following
manner, that is to say, be equally divided between my beloved wife Lavina and
my son Hardy Huntley Sellers and my daughter Zilpha Ann Sellers, my wife to
have that part whereon the dwelling house and other out houses now stand and
one third of the balance of my estate not given away I loan to my wife Lavina during
her natural life time or widowhood except the land before mentioned to be for
her use and benefit until my son Hardy H. do arrive to the age of twenty [20]
years (should she remain my widow so long) at which time my son is to take
possession of the said land and at the marriage or death of my said wife the
whole of my estate not before given to my first set of children and
grandchildren to be equally divided between my son Hardy H. and daughter Zilpha
A. Sellers, my son as before stated to have that part whereon the dwellings now
stand. And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my father-in-law Elder
Joel Gulledge and my friends John Evans and Turner Bryan Brian Executors of
this my Last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this 14th day July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-four [1834] and in the 59th year of the American Independence.
Signed Sealed and Published}
and declared in the presence}
of the testator and in the presence} Hardy Sellers, Sr. {seal}[1]
of us who have subscribed }
of us who have subscribed }
our names as witnesses hereto}
Neill Smith
William X(his mark) Hancock
Andrew J. Hancock
Recorded in
Book #8 pages 28, 29, 30; January 26th 1835 then qualified John Evans Executor
to this Will, T. Bryan, Ordy.
[SOURCE: "Cheraw/Chesterfield
District Wills, 1750-1865 & Abstracts from the Court of Common Pleas 1823-1869,
James C. Pigg, January 2000, Page 107 & 108].
[1] James C. Pigg, Cheraw/Chesterfield District Wills, 1750-1865
&: Abstracts from the Court of Common Pleas 1823-1869 (Washington,
D.C.: self-Published, 1995), pages 107 & 108.
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