Will Book 2

1824 - 1854

Page 38 I, Ambrose Quarles going from home and knowing the certainty of death and the uncertainty of life think it proper to make as will.  It is my wish that my debts be paid and that my wife have the sole management of all my property as long as she remains a widow, but if she marries then the laws of the country upon the subject of wills is to take effect in testimony whereof.  I will set my hand and seal this 27th November 1825. Ambrose Quarles George Manning Mary Quarles Franklin County Court, September Term 1830 A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Ambrose Quarles, deceased was produced in court and proven by the oath of Mary Quarles, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and the said Mary Quarles also proved that George Manning another subscribing witness thereto who is now living out of the jurisdiction of this Court did sign his name as a witness to said will in her presence and also in the presence of the said decedent. Whereupon the said will is ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly in my office. A. H. Rennick, CFCC