The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-08-04
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Society of Quaker
siding or Bush r..
county, in the State T..
lima; andzI do hereby e.
society full and compIet
ity to receive from my EA
titles for as much land as W
vided and laid off by the so
out of any lands that may be ~.
at the time of my decease, n
will amount to fifty acros for each
of my said slaves as aforesaid, ex-
cept my homestead on Eittle River
that being otherwise disposed of;
and besides the lands aforesaid, j
do further give and bequeath to
each of my said slaves to be eman-
cipated as aforesaid, one good
mich cow and a SOW, or the value
thereof in other stock or farming
interests to be delivered to them
by my Executors when set free,
and which it is my wish should
take place as soon after my death
as the necessary and requisite ar
engagements for that purpose can
he made or at any rate within six
months thereafter; andI do hereby
give and bequeath to q mulatto
free girl named Tiisby and a mu-
latto free boy named Archibald,
both of whom make part of my
family at this time, the same to
each of them as have given to
each of my negro slaves as above
mentioned, or the value thereof.
And L do give and bequeath to
my much respected friends, III. w.
Desasure, John Hunter and John
O.. Calhoun, Esquires, in trust for
the use and benefit of all that part
OF Laurens county in Ninety Six
district known at this time by the
bounds of Major Dunlap's Battalion
OF the Saluda Regiment, all the re-
naming part of my lands Of overy
description and kind, for the sole
purpose and use of maintaining
and supporting q free school for
poor children residing in those
Limits forever, never to be sold or
alienated, except such lands as
may lay at a distance which may
be exchanged for lands of its full
value lying within the aforesaid
limits, acre for acre, but not other
wise.
The said school to be under the
direction and government OF five
trustees, to he elected every two
years by the free white men re-
siding within the aforesaid limits;
so soon as my Executors shall
have arranged and so disposed of
my personal estate as TO bring in
y sure interest of eighteen hundred
dollars per annum, until which
time the profits of those lands
must go to make up the deficiency
designed for the maintenance Of
my wife and mother, during their
lives, and if after these lands are
delivered over to the trustees to
be appointed as aforesaid, if they
shall neglect at any time or cease
to apply the same for the space of
two years to the purposes above
mentioned, or shall attempt to dis
pose of any of said lands or apply
them to any other use, then end in
that case / do hereby revoke this
gift and my Executors. if alive, or
any other person if they should be
dead, shall have power to take
thcm back and apply them to any
other charitable seminary, to
which the poorer class Of the citi-
zens in the back country may have |
easy access for the education of
their childrcn, and it is my wish
and request that the three gentle.
men before named will as soon as
the necessary arrangements are
made by my Executors as above
mentioned, proceed to organize
said school and fix the same upon
such a footing as will in their judg-
ment best answer the purposes de
signed and prove most beneficial
to the inhabitants of tho interior
country, always keeping in mind
that 1T is intended solely for the
benefit of such children whose pa
rents are too poor to pay for the
education of their children, who
reside within the limits before de-
scribed, and then extend to the
neighbOrhood round about as far
as the funds will allow and as it is
my opinion that a republican form
of government is the best adapted
for the happiness of man, it is my
wish that the children so to be ed
ucated may be we'll grounded in
such principles, that they be
taught early to read republican
treatises in order that they NAV be
made acquainted with their own
rights and those Of others, so that
when they grow up they may feel
and know their own weight and
Importance in society and be en-
abled to defend and support q re-
publican form of government in it's
purity and which has been consti-
tutionalIy guaranteed to all the
citizens of America.
And lastly / do hereby nominate
and appoint my trusty and well be-
loved friends, VIM. Tenpin and
Benjamin Cudworth, of the city of
Charleston, to be the Executors of
this my last will and testament, in
witness whereof 1 have hereunto
set my hand at Charleston, this
18th day of September, in the year
of u Lord, 1893. Signed,
TIIOs. WADswORTI.