AAFA Wills
WILL OF JAMES ALFORD

Mississippi State}

Copiah County }

I James Alford make no preamble about Soul or Body As to my Soul having made it My Great business to Reenstamp on it The Image of God I Doubt not But it Will Be Remembered when Christ shall Come to make up his Jewels and as to My Body that admirable peice of Devine Mechanism that So Long have Been the honored Servant of duty to God and my Country I trust That though sown in dishonour it will Be One day Raised in Glory.

1st I Bequeth to my Beloved Wife the tract of Land whare I now live and after her Death To my Son Elias and to her one negro girl Named Milbra and one Boy Named Dublin And after her Deth the Girl to Mary & Maranda and Dublin to my Son Julias and one Negro Named Harriet to my three Grandaughters Namely Matilda Winna and Mariann Thompson and for the Sd Girl to Live with my Wife till Ally the youngest Child is ten years old then to be Hired out and the money to Be devided Between the three Children when they Become of Age. And all the Rest of my property to be sold and Equally devided Between my daughter Sarah Ann Pierce and Charrity Legan and Kytice.

And after all my debts is payed to Equally Devided Between the three I do now Leve my Son Julias and Elias my Executors of the above Will this the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty five as witness my hand and Seal this the 13 of April 1835.

James Alford (Seal)

Witness

John Manning

Thomas Cammack

Wiley Everett