Will of Ann Drayton Perry, page 5 (typescript copy)
Book 1, Page 616 ·1830
Transcription
WILL OF ANN DRAYTON PERRY PAGE #5
[typewriter strikeover] consummated) for and during the term of their joint natural lives and from and after the death of either of them then if the said Edward D. Perry shall be the survivor to him the said Edward D. Perry during the term of his natural life but if the said Maria Ann Mauger shall be the survivor then to her the said Maria Ann Mauger during the term of her widowhood only and no longer, and from and after the death of the said Edward D. Perry or marriage again of Maria Ann Mauger, his widow as the case may be then the said House and Lot to go to and be equally divided among all my grand children, the ifsue of my said son both by his late and any future marriage which shall be living at the time of the death of my said son or termination of the widowhood of his said intended wife, as aforesaid to be equally divided between them and to their heirs and afsigns forever. But should either of my grand children depart this life before the death of my said son or termination of the widowhood of his said intended wife as the case may be leaving ifsue such ifsue shall in such event represent his her or their deceased parent and take among them the share or proportion which such Parent would have been entitled to if living Provided neverthelefs that if the aforesaid intended marriage between my son and the said Maria Ann Mauger, shall not take effect, or if in that case upon the death of my said mother, the aforesaid House and Lot, shall go to my son during his life, and from and after his death to my said grand children and the ifsue of any deceased grand child as above particularly limitted, and specified and to their heirs and afsigns forever. Item from and after the payment of my Funeral expences debts and legacies as aforesaid I do then give and bequeath unto my son Edward D. Perry for and during his natural life the following negro slaves to wit, Jony, Mary, Anthony Isaac and his wife
AI Notes
Typescript copy, fifth page of the will of Ann Drayton Perry (widow of Edward Perry the Younger). Page numbered ‘#5’ at upper right; ‘792’ written in pencil at corner. Page picks up mid-clause from p615 — the first word is a typewriter strike-over (the typist began a word, x’d it out with overstruck characters, then continued with the parenthetical ‘consummated)’). The page sets out trust provisions for the Charleston house and lot conditioned on the consummated marriage of Edward D. Perry and Maria Ann Mauger, then provides for descent to their issue or to grandchildren of the testator if the marriage fails, if issue dies before either parent, or if the intended wife dies or remarries. The page closes by opening the bequest to Edward D. Perry, for life, of named enslaved persons (Jony, Mary, Anthony Isaac and his wife) — the bequest of the Horse Savannah plantations (the Blue House and Old House) is on subsequent pages, not begun here. Transcribed literally for archival fidelity (long-s spellings ‘ifsue’, ‘afsigns’, ‘expences’, ‘limitted’ preserved).
Editorial note: this page belongs to the 1830 will of Ann Drayton Perry, whose first page is on p612 (Probate Court Charleston, vol. 38, p. 788 — this page is paginated ‘792’). The named enslaved persons appear here for the first time in the will; subsequent pages (617, 618) describe the plantation real estate and conclude the bequest. Edward D. Perry is Edward Drayton Perry, the Pee Dee rice planter; Maria Ann Mauger is his then-betrothed second wife, born in London (per the p610 family-group sheet). The strikeover at top is consistent with mid-20th-century typescript practice for word corrections — the underlying word is unrecoverable.