Will of Ann Drayton Perry, page 1 (certified typescript copy from Charleston Probate)
Book 1, Page 612 ·1830
Transcription
[Handwritten in pencil at upper right:] 788 Probate Court / Charleston S.C. / vol. 38, p. 788
WILL OF
ANN DRAYTON PERRY
18-DS
N 39O South Carolina In the Name of God Amen I Ann Drayton Perry of the City of Charleston in the State aforesaid widow of Edward D. Perry the Younger deceased, being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding, but being mindfull of death do make this my last will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all former and other wills heretofore made by me, Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my dear Mother Rebecca Drayton my carriage and horses absolutely and forever also the use of my Coachman Abraham during her lifetime to drive her carriage and from and after her death then the said Coachman Abraham to go to the children of my son Edward Drayton Perry But should my mother depart this life before me then I do hereby give and bequeath the Coachman Abraham to my son Edward D Perry during his life and after his death to go to his Children as aforesaid and in the same event I do then give and bequeath my carriage and horses to Mrs Maria Ann Mauger the betrothed and intended wife of my son Edward D. Perry to be delivered to her immediately upon her marriage with my Son for her sole seperate and exclusive use & behoof not to be subject or liable to the debts contracts or pecuniary engagements of my Son But in case such intended marriage shall not take effect nor be consummated then my carriage and Horses to go to my Son Edward D. Perry. Item I give and bequeath unto my Mother Rebecca Drayton for and during the term of her natural life only my Pew No 9 in the north Aisle of Saint Philips Church in Charleston and from and after her death then I do give and bequeath the same to my son Edward D. Perry for and during the term of his natural life, And from and after his death then I do give and bequeath the same to and among all my grand children the present and future ifsue
AI Notes
Certified typewritten transcript, first page of the will of Ann Drayton Perry (widow of Edward Perry the Younger), of the City of Charleston. The page is numbered ‘788’ in pencil at upper right (matching the probate-volume page); the typescript carries the standard probate codes ‘18-D’ (superscript ‘S’) and ‘N-39.’ (superscript ‘O’). The handwritten note at the upper right reads: ‘Probate Court / Charleston S.C. / vol. 38, p. 788’ (not p. 188 as previously transcribed). The will opens with bequests of carriage, horses, and the enslaved Coachman Abraham, and contemplates the upcoming marriage of her son Edward Drayton Perry to Maria Ann Mauger. Pew No. 9 in the north Aisle of Saint Philips Church, Charleston, descends through Rebecca Drayton (the testator’s mother) to her son and grandchildren. The typescript continues onto pages 613, 614, and 608 in the album sequence. This will is the 1830 counterpart of the 1797 will of her husband Edward Perry the Younger on p. 609 — together they document one generation of the Perry/Drayton/Mauger line that produced Edward Drayton Perry, the Pee Dee rice planter whose intimate friend Judge Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin gave the compiler’s maternal grandfather his Christian names.