Benjamin Lavender McMaham, 1821 Will, Sumter SC - Steven J. Coker
Subject: Benjamin Lavender McMaham, 1821 Will, Sumter SC
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: August 12, 1998

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT 0F BENJAMIN LAVENDER McMAHAM

Dated July 9, 1821, Proven October 12, 1821, Recorded March 28, 1822. 
In Will Book "AA" Page 315-316, Sumter District, South Carolina.

                                           McMaham
In the name of God Amen I Benjamin Lavender +    of the State of South Carolina
& Destrict of Sumter Being Sick and weake in or of Body But of Perfect mind &
memory thanks be given unto God Calling unto mind the mortality of my Body &
Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die  Do Make & ordain this my
Last will & testament that is to Say Principally & first of all I Give &
recommend my Soul into the Hand of Almighty God that Gave it & my Body I
recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a decent Christian Burial at the
Discretion of my Executors nothing Doubting But at the General resurrection I
Shall receive the Same again by the mighty Power of God & as Touching Such
["werly" struck out] worldly Estate wherewith it has Pleased God to bless me in
this Life I give Demiss and Dispose of the Same in the following manner & forme
after paying all my Just Debts I Give & bequeath to Maryann my Dearly Beloved
wife all my Whole Estate real & personal During her natural life or widowhood to
raise my Small Children on & then to be Equally Divided after her Death or
marriag among the whole of my Children Sariah Welch John Lavender ["Nancy"
struck out] Agnes Coker Benjamin Lavender Mary Lavender Catharin Lavender Zilpha
Lavender Elizabeth Lavender Littelton Capel Lavender Roberd winter Lavender
Isabel Lavender Except those that has had Some Parte Given them all the rest
["to" struck out] I wish to have in Proportion to them & Either when they Come
to the age of twenty one or marriys if Convenient & if not at the Division then
the whole of my Property Real & Personal to be Equally Divided amongst the whole
of my Children as above named to wit Sariah welch John Lavender Agness Coker
Benjamin Lavender Mary Lavender Catharin Lavender Zilpha Lavender Elizabeth
Lavender Littelton Capel Lavender Roberd winter Lavender Isabel Lavender  I
likewise Constitute make & ordain my wife Maryama Lavender John Lavender & John
Baker the Executors of this my Last will & testament & I do Heareby utterly
Disallow revoke & Disannul all & Every other former testament wills Legacies
bequeaths & Executors by me in any wise before named will & bequeathed ratifying
& Confirming this & no other to be my Last will & testament in witness whereof I
have heare unto Set my hand & Seal this the 9th Day of July one thousand Eight
Hundred & twenty one 

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced               his
Declared By the Said                    Benjamon  +  Lavender McMaham
Benjamin Lavender McMaham                       mark
As his Last will & testament in the
Presants of us who in his Presants &
in the Presants of Each other have heare
unto Subscribed our names

William Jones
Henry Goodmon
         h1s
Timothey  X  Lee Senr
        mark

-=-=-=-=-

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ) 
   SUMTER DISTRICT      ) By William Potts Esquire Ordinary for Said District
Personally Appeared before me Henry Goodman who being duly Sworn Sayeth that he
was present and Saw Benjamin Lavender McMaham sign Seal and pronounce the within
instrument of writing to contain his last will and testament and that he the
said Benjamin Lavender McMaham was at the time of sound and disposing Mind
Memory and understanding as far as he (the deponent) knows or believes and that
William Jones and Timothy Lee Senr did subscribe their Names with himself as
witnesses thereto by the request of the testator in his presence and in the
presence of each other

                                        Henry Goodman
Sworn to before me
this 12 day of October
Anno Domini 1821

            William Potts
            Ord-y S.D.

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Source:
"The Lavender Line"
Volume 1 #1,  Fall 1982
TRANSCRIBED BY VIRGIL R. HELMS
2905 Kenwood Avenue
Richmond, Va. 23228

New notes:

1. Square brackets [] have been added indicating items which were shown struck
out in the published transcription.  It believed, but not confirmed, that these
were intended to indicate strike outs in the original rather than typographical
corrections in the transcription.

2. Spelling is sic, any transcription errors being forgiven. It is left to the
reader to verify the accuracy of this transcription prior to use.

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