In the name of God amen I Samuel Short of King William Parish…I lend unto my
wife Elizabeth the use of my land whereon I now live during her life also I
lend unto my said wife Elizabeth my three slaves Lander Bett & Major with all
the stock & House – hold Furniture during her life
I give & bequeath unto my two sons Pleasant Short & Fleming Short all my
land whereon I now live after the Death of their Mother to be divided equally
between them…as soon as they arrive to the Age of twenty one years if their
Mother should die before that time but in case my said Wife Elizabeth should now
be with Child then it is my Will & Desire that that Child may have & enjoy
an equal part of my whole Estate to that Child & the Heirs of it forever
And lastly I do constitute & appoint Charles Clark & Martell Lesueur to be
Executors …my seal this nineteenth Day of June in he year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred & eighty
