State of South Carolina Kershw District
         In the name of God Amen,
                I Ellen Chesnut widow of the
late John Chesnut deceased, do make and ordain
this to be my last will and testament. That is to
Say.
1st The negroes which I received from the estate of
my brother William Whitaker, with their present and
future issue and increase, and also all the negroes
which I brought into Coventure, together with their
present and future issue and increase, to which under
the Will and testament of my Said husband, I Shall
again become entitled at the division of his estate
I give and bequeath to my Six Children, to wit.
Serena Haile, the wife of Thomas E. Haile, Mary 
Whitaker Chesnut, Ellen Chesnut Thos.W. Chesnut
James Chesnut, and John Chesnut, Equally to be
divided among them Share and Share alike. The Share
hereby given to each of my daughters to be held
by her to her own Seperate use and behoof, not
Subject or liable to the debts or Contracts of her
present or future husband, during the term of her
natural life and from and immediately after her
death to the heirs of her body, living at the time
of her death, but if She Should die without
leaving Such heirs living at the time of her death
then to the issue of Such heirs, who may be then
living, and in Case She Should without leaving
any Such heirs or issue of Such heirs living at the
time of her death, then to my other Children who
may be then living, and the issue of Such as may
be dead, the issue taking among them the Share
their parents would have taken if alive. The Share
in the Clause of- will bequeathed to each of my
Sons is an absolute gift, Subject only to the
following Condition that is to Say, that if