DEMPSEY HARRISON (1824 Will)

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

OF

DEMPSEY HARRISON

September 29, 1823

In the name of God Amen! I DEMPSEY HARRISON being weak in body yet of disposing mind & memory blessed be God for the same do make & ordain this my Last Will and Testament this Twenty Ninth day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred & Twenty Three in the following manner & form viz.

I give and bequeath unto my loving Wife NANCY HARRISON all my right & title in negro man Denson(?) also all my property of every description & kind whatever unto her & her heirs forever.

Lastly I nominate & appoint my loving Wife NANCY HARRISON Executrix to this my Last Will and Testament in witness where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day and year first above written.

DEMSEY HARRISON seal

His x mark

Signed, seal’d & declared

To be his Last Will &

Testament in presence of

W. McPHERSON

JESSE OVERTON

His x mark


Camden County Court

November Term 1824

This Last Will & Testament of DEMSEY HARRISON dec’d was exhibited and proved in open Court by the oaths of W. McPHERSON & JESSE OVERTON subscribing witnesses thereto. And NANCY HARRISON the Executrix therein named app’d & qualified agreeably to Law. Ordered that the Will be recorded & letters Testamentary issue

Test.

M.S. LEWIS CLK


Will Book C

Pages 42, 43

Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse