Amanuensis Monday~Last Will and Testament of Ann (Baldwin) McFarland, 1866.

 
Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.

His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Today’s subject is the Last Will and Testament of Ann (Baldwin) McFarland, 1866.¹


Transcription:
State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield District} In the name of God Amen.
Know all men by these presents that I Ann McFarland of the Chesterfield District and state of South Carolina, being of sound but waning mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament.
1. I give and bequeath to my son McLean McFarland all of my land and all of my house hold furniture with all the rest and residue of my property.
2. I ordain and appoint my son McLean McFarland as executor of this my last will and testament.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal and publish and declare this to be my last will and testament in the presence of the witnefses named below, this 8th day of May in the year of our Lord 1866.

Ann X(her mark) McFarland {LS}

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Ann McFarland as and for her last will and testament in presence of us, who, at her request, and in her presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto.
J. A. Campbell
D. A. Campbell
John Douglass

 
Annie [Baldwin] McFarland died between 8 May 1866 (the day she signed this Will) and 1 October 1866 (day her will was presented by McLean McFarland to the Probate Court).²











  
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[1] "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-NQ9N-BP?cc=1911928&wc=MPPR-VZ9%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C190708501 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > image 836 of 1550; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
[2] "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-NQ9F-94?cc=1911928&wc=MPPR-VZ9%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C190708501 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > image 837 of 1550; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.