Will of Ann Drayton Perry, page 7 (typescript copy)
Book 1, Page 618 ·1830
Transcription
WILL OF ANN DRAYTON PERRY PAGE #7
heretofore belonging or attached to the same but now hired out or otherwise employed including such ifsue as may be born of the females of them in the mean time with their future ifsue and increase (except those negro slaves and their ifsue which are hereinbefore specifically devised or disposed of) and also all the Plantation tools and implements of husbandry of every kind and description which are upon or attached to the said Plantations or either of them and also all the rest residue and remainder of my Estate real and personal whatsoever and howsoever derived unto my said son Edward D. Perry for and during the term of his natural life And from and immediately after his death then the same and every part thereof shall go to and be equally divided among all the children which he shall leave living at the time of his death either by his late or any future marriage and to their heirs executors administrators and afsigns forever. But should any or either of his children have previously departed this life leaving ifsue such ifsue shall together represent his her, or their deceased parent, or parents, and take among them such share or shares as he or they would have taken if living Item It is my will and I do hereby exprefsly declare, that all the real and personal property of every kind and description which I have in and by this my last will and testament given bequeathed or devised to my said son Edward D. Perry, either for life in, absolute fee or otherwise shall be free and exempt from all his present and future debts, contracts or other pecuniary engagements, and in no wise or on any account subject or liable thereto. Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my said son Edward D. Perry to be sole Executor of this my last will and testament, In Witnefs whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal at Charleston in the state aforesaid this Second day of November in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty and in the
AI Notes
Typescript copy, seventh and final substantive page of the will of Ann Drayton Perry (widow of Edward Perry the Younger). Page numbered ‘#7’ at upper right; ‘794’ written in pencil at corner. The page concludes the disposition of the Horse Savannah plantations and personalty in trust for Edward D. Perry’s children, frees his real and personal estate from claims by his present and future creditors, devises the residue of the testator’s estate to Edward D. Perry for life with remainder equally to his children (with representation through deceased issue), appoints Edward D. Perry sole Executor, and concludes with the in-witness clause signed and sealed at Charleston on the Second day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty (the attestation and witness signatures continue onto the next page in the album sequence). Transcribed literally for archival fidelity (long-s spellings ‘ifsue’, ‘afsigns’, ‘Witnefs’, ‘exprefsly’ preserved).
Editorial note: this is the last page of substantive devises in Ann Drayton Perry’s 1830 will, whose first page is on p612 (Probate Court Charleston, vol. 38, p. 788; this page is paginated ‘794’). The “Year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty” line is followed (on the next page in the original probate volume) by the regnal-equivalent phrasing (“and in the [Fifty-Fifth] year of the Independence of the United States of America”), the testatrix’s signature, and the attestation by witnesses. Edward D. Perry — Edward Drayton Perry — is the testatrix’s son; his marriage to Maria Ann Mauger (born London) is contemplated throughout the will. Their issue includes Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin Perry (b. 1834), the compiler’s maternal grandfather (per p610 family-group sheet).