In the name of God. Amen. The last will and dying testament of Andrew Pickens, being weak in body but of perfect memory and calling to mind it is appointed for all men once to die..., First I commend my spirit to God who gave it and my body to be interred, at the discretion of my Extr. and all my lawful debts paid and I do hereby constitute and appoint William Davis and my dearly beloved wife Nancy to be my lawful and sole executors.
And I do give and bequeath the plantation I now live upon containing five hundred and fifty one acres in ye manner following: that is to say, three hundred acres to my son Andrew Pickens to be surveyed off ye upper end of the plantation, and ye remainder to my son Joseph Pickens. But allow my son Andrew to procure two hundred acres of good land for my son John Pickens at ye first and best opportunity or in five years after date to pay him Ten Pound piece: also I give to my son John a meare called Cathline and her colt and to my beloved wife I give and bequeath a bay meare called Bonney with all ye benefits of ye plantation and all ye movables thereon during her life: and after her departure to be ye property of my son Andrew. And to my daughter Jean, a black meare called Bonney and a saddle and bridle with all the other tinge called her property; allowing this to be my last will and testament, disannulling any other ever made by me. Witness my hand and seal. This 5th day of November 1756.
Signed Andrew Pickens
Witnessed: Robert McClenachan
John Pickens.