Will of Ann Drayton Perry, page 4 (typescript copy)

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WILL OF ANN DRAYTON PERRY PAGE #4

negro slaves not herein otherwise specifically bequeathed to be afsigned and ~~among the heirs~~ and delivered to each of them to hold to them respectively and to their respective executors administrators & afsigns forever. Item I give and bequeath to the vestry of the Episcopal Church of Saint Andrews Parish and to their succefsors and afsigns forever for the use of said Church the sum of two ~~thousand~~ Hundred Dollars to be paid in one year after my death or as soon as the funds herein after set apart for the payment of my debts and funeral expences shall enable my Executor to discharge the same which he shall only do from those funds and no others. Item I order and direct that my House and Lot situate at the corner of Bull and Lynch Streets in Charleston where I at present reside also my two Plantations or tracts of land situate at horse Savannah in the Parish of S^t Paul, called the Blue House, and the old house together with all the negro slaves heretofore belonging or attached to the said Plantations but now hired out or otherwise employed be kept together and rented or hired out by my executor hereinafter named and kept under rent, and hire untill all my funeral expences just debts and pecuniary legacies are paid And I do hereby constitute the whole annual rents and profits of the said real and personal property as a fund to be set apart for the payment of the same. Item From and after the payment of my funeral expences debts and legacies as aforesaid I do then give devise and bequeath unto my dear mother M^rs Rebecca Drayton for and during the term of her natural life my house and lot where I at present reside situate on Harleston’s Green at the Corner of Bull and Lynch streets as aforesaid together with all the out buildings thereon and other appurtenances and from and immediately after her death then I do give devise and bequeath the same to my son Edward D. Perry and Maria Ann—Mauger his intended wife (if their said intended marriage shall take effect and be

AI Notes

Typescript copy, fourth page of the will of Ann Drayton Perry. Page numbered ‘#4’ at upper right; ‘791’ written in pencil at corner. Page directs the executor to retain unbequeathed enslaved people and rent them out, hire them out, to fund debts and legacies; bequeaths the testator’s house and lot at the corner of Bull and Lynch Streets in Charleston (her present residence — on Harleston’s Green), and two plantations or tracts of land at Horse Savannah in Saint Paul Parish (called the Blue House and the old house) with the enslaved people attached, to her mother Rebecca Drayton during her natural life, and after her death to her son Edward D. Perry and his intended wife Maria Ann Mauger. Transcribed literally for archival fidelity; the first strikeout reads ‘among the heirs.’