Will of Paul Pritchard — pecuniary legacies to nephews, brothers, sister, friends; partnership and account-settlement clauses (page 3 of 4)
Book 4, Page 5 ·1791
Transcription
The page is headed Will of Paul Pritchard Page 3 at top center; it is paginated as p. 965 of the source volume.
Carpenter’s businefs equal at least to one half of what may be left in and at the Ship yard at the time of my decease. I give to my Nephew Paul Pritchard Son of George Pritchard deceased Fifty Pounds Sterling and my Negro Wallis now in his Father’s pofsefsion I give to my Nephew William Pritchard Fifty Pounds Sterling & my Negro Boy Debtford, I give to my Brother William Pritchard Fifty Pounds Sterling, To my Sister Catharine Rea Fifty pounds Sterling To Henry Smith Fifty Pounds Sterling, To David Hamilton Fifty pounds Sterling and to my Brother George Pritchard Fifty Pounds Sterling also to Robert Connor Fifty pounds like Money. It is my Will that notwithstanding the Limitation herein before Made of the Lot of Land on the Bay of Charleston to my Daughter Aphra Ann Eve & the Heirs of her Body, I give the Same to her for ever, without any Limitation whatever. It is my desire that the Copartnership Concerns of Pritchard Hamilton & Company be Settled as soon as pofsible by Brian Cape and George Fardo, or any other Arbitrators who may agree upon, or an Umpire if they cannot agree. It is my desire in Case the acco[unt] between myself & Oswell Eve cannot be amicably Settled that my Executors do submit the Settlement of the same to the Court of Equity as speedily as pofsible after my decease, and in Case there should appear to be any Ballance due to me I give the Same to my Daughter Aphra Ann Eve All the rest residue and remainder of my Estate real and personal I desire may be sold by my Executors herein after named or such of them as shall qualify and Will Act, the Lands on a reasonable credit, and the personal Estate at the discretion of my Executors, and the Monies arising from such Sale, I give to my Two Daughters Aphra Ann Eve and Catharine Fitzsimons, to be equally divided between them Share and Share alike, In Case the debts, owing to me should be found inadequate to the payment of my debts and discharging the pecuniary Legacies herein given. It is my Will that my Sons and Daughters contribute in equaly proportion
Source: Charleston, South Carolina probate Will Book B, 1786-1793, page 613. Typewritten transcription reproduced from FamilySearch image 939L-J49B-G2, in the public domain.
AI Notes
Continuation of the Paul Pritchard will. Lists pecuniary legacies of fifty pounds sterling each to a nephew (Paul, son of deceased brother George), a second nephew William, brother William Pritchard, sister Catharine Rea, and three apparent friends or business associates: Henry Smith, David Hamilton, and Robert Connor. Two enslaved persons — Wallis (now in his father’s possession) and Debtford (a boy) — are given to the two nephews. Names Brian Cape and George Fardo as arbitrators for the partnership ‘Pritchard Hamilton & Company,’ to be settled at the testator’s decease. Directs that any unsettled account with Oswell Eve be submitted to the Court of Equity. Residue of estate goes equally to daughters Aphra Ann Eve and Catharine Fitzsimons.
Will continues onto document 6.
The Pritchard’s siblings emerge here for the first time in the archive: brothers William (still living, gets £50) and George (deceased, his sons Paul and William the named nephews), and sister Catharine Rea. The £50 bequests to Henry Smith, David Hamilton, and Robert Connor — unrelated to the family by the will’s framing — are likely Charleston business associates or close friends. Pritchard Hamilton & Company is otherwise undocumented in the album; the Hamilton partner may be the same David Hamilton named just above, and the partnership name supplies the family link by which Paul Pritchard Jr. (page 024) would later marry Catherine Hamilton in February 1803 — likely a daughter or niece of the business partner. The line also flags that Paul Pritchard had a sister whose married name was Rea, a branch otherwise absent from the bound albums.