THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
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