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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
- Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Will of Anthony Addison Callis That Was Included With Anthony Addison's Petition to the Board
Record Group 217: Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the TreasurySeries: Settled Treasury AccountsFile Unit: Account 158,299 - Claims Filed Under the Acts of April 16, 1862, and July 12, 1862
In the name of God Amen: I Anthony Addison Callis of
the County of Prince Georges CState of Maryland being
weak in body but of sound mind, memory and under-
standing, do make constitute and appoint this to be my
last will and Testament hereby revoking all others by me
heretofore made.
Firstly I give devise and bequeath, undo my beloved friend
Sarah D. Hanson the following servants namely a negro man
named Phill, negro woman named Martha and her child
Elizabeth, negro woman named Polly, negro woman named Kitty
and a negro boy named Sam. the said slaves to serve Sarah
D. Hanson during her natural life, and after her death Phill Mar
-tha, Polly and Kitty to serve Anthony Addison of the District
of Columbia six months, and then to be free from slavery, and
my negro boy Sam and Elizabeth together with any future issue,
of the above named servants to serve Anthony Addison, the females
until twenty years old, and the males twenty five years old, my boy
Sam and every other of male isue of the above named servants.
I require Anthony Addison to bind some suitable trade at the
age of sixteen until twenty, after which still serving him five
years. My Gold watch, my carriage, my Piano with my entire stock
of horses and cattle and swine, my stock of grain and meat
and all my farming implements and any money in my posses
-sion at my decease. I bequeath to Sarah D. Hanson, should
any of the above named servants, conduct themselves in a disor
-derly manner, their said mistress then in that case, shall
have the power to sell them for life, And lastly it is my will
and desire that my servant woman Charlotte shall serve Sarah
D. Hanson twelve months after my decease, and then be free from
slavery. I constitute and appoint James L. Addison and Willian
B. Bayne Executors of this my last will and testament this fourth
day of October in the year our Lord 1854.
Anthony A. Callis seal
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared to be his
last will and testament, who signed the same in our presence.
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