The Last Will and Testament of Barnabas Henagan of Marlborough District and the State of South Carolina:

I Barnabas Henagan, considering the uncertain of this mortal life, and being of sound mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament, in the manner and from the following: I resign my soul into the hands of a merciful God; and my body I commit to the earth to be decently entered I give and devise as follows:

First, I give and devise to my younger son, Barnabas Henagan, all that land on which I now live, situated lying and being in the district of Marlborough, and containing four hundred and sixty-three acres more or less – item I also give and bequeath to my said son Barnabas seven Negroes, namely Johnson, Peter, Sophia, Morning, Edmund, Dennis and Sandy – Item I give and bequeath to my youngest daughter, Catherine Henagan, seven Negroes, namely Sarah, Stephen, George, Robin, Ned, Jim and Rachel. The children of the said Rachel under the age of Jim, I desire to be divided between my son Barnabas and my daughter Catherine. I also desire that the Negroes, which I have enumerated in this, my Last Will and Testament, shall remain where I now reside, until my legatees require them elsewhere. All the remainder of my real and personal property (including slaves not named in the Will) not particularly mentioned in this Will, to be equally divided between my Barnabas and Catherine. Also, I will and ordain that my son Barnabas and daughter Catherine shall not have the power of aliening, or parting from the property, which they obtain through me, except for the term of their natural lives, but at their death it shall descend their heirs at law.

I made a marriage contract with my wife before we were married in which contract I give her a house and home with household and kitchen furniture. Sufficient for moderate living with a Negro man able to do moderate (labor) and land sufficient for one house to work and one Negro women servant able to do common house business to serve her the said Elizabeth during her life time or widowhood and she is to be furnished with a sufficiency of stock, one horse to work her land and cattle, hogs, sheep for her maintenance, but it is provided also that she or her heirs or Executors ----- is not to have any claim on any part of the said property any longer than during her lifetime or widowhood. I desire at the death of my wife or on her marriage with any other person that the above property which I have so given by contract during her natural live or widowhood should be equally divided between my two youngest children Barnabas and Catherine.

Also for the better management of my property and education of my children, I do hereby appoint my trusty friends Captain Tristram Bethea (Barnabas nephew and son of Mary Henagan Bethea), Charles Mcrae, Esq., and John L. Mclaurin Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this First Day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-six (February 1, 1826).

Signed Sealed published and declared the before named Barnabas Henagan to be his Last Will and Testament, in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator—Barnabas Henagan, Hugh McCall, Neil Mclarin and Shadrick Easterling.