| pages 328-329 Trust Instrument, Deed of Gift, & Freedom for slave Peggy: Morgan Co., Ga.: Nancy Irving, for love & affection, to my sister Elizabeth O Neal, wife of Bryan O Neal, & to my friend Rodrick Leonard of Morgan Co., & for $5. To Rodrick Leonard, my negroes, Isreal, Nace, Sophia, Peggy, & children Mary & Margaret, & all moneys, bonds, notes, or other debts I may be possessed of at my death, with increase of negroes. To Rodrick Leonard in trust for the support & maintenance of my sister & her children. The trust isn’t to take effect until after my death, reserving to myself the profits & use of the property during my natural life & then to be applied to the support of my sister & her children. At the death of her husband, Bryan O Neal, I wish a division to take place between my Sister O Neal & her children. I wish my Sister O Neal to have Sophia & increase. Annalizer O Neal to have Mary. Martha Jane Bennet to have Margaret & increase. Negro men Nace & Isreal I wish to be sold & money arising from sale to be equally divided between my sister’s two children, Annalizier & Martha Jane Bennett O Neal. Money & notes due on hand at death of Bryan O Neal to be equally divided between my sister & her two children. My friend Rodrick Leonard to take charge of my negro woman Peggy & let her act for herself & let her be as free as the nature of the case will admit, 28 Feb. 1828. /s/ Nancy D. G. Irving. Wit: Ann S. Vanlandingham, W. F. Vanlandingham, Amy (x) Vanlandingham, John W. Porter. Deed of Trust proved by John W. Porter, 14 May 1828, Young Stokes, J.I.C. Recorded 28 May 1828, John W. Porter, clerk.
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