Filed February 23, 1859

In the name of God amen I Nathaniel Broughton of the county of Green & state of Mississippi being of sound mind and disposing memory do make this my last will & testament hereby revoking all & every will or wills by me heretofore made.

In the first place, I give and commend my soul to the merciful being who formed it and my body to the earth to be decently intered in such manner & form as my friends may deem fit and advisable.

In the second place, I give and bequeath unto Sarah Broughton of the county of Monroe in the state of Alabama all of my negroe slaves to wit, Martha & her three children Anderson, Caroline and Mary together with all my household & kitchen furniture to have & to hold and to use the same during her life. And after her death it is my will & desire that the negro slaves be sold and the proceeds of said slaves equally divided between my two daughters to wit, Sarah Brown & Susan OGwynn and their bodily heirs.

And it is further my desire that my negro slave Henry to be put with a certain negro man named Kiah belonging to Churchwell Jones to learn the carpenter trade until the age of twenty one years of age. At which period of twenty one years

I will and desire that said boy Henry should have his freedom. I also will & desire that my mare & colt should be sold and the proceeds of said sale put to interest for the said boy Henry to be paid to him when he arrives at twenty one years.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal on the 24th day of April AD 1852.

Nathaniel Broughton (seal)

Signed in the presence of
Farquhar McLeod
Walter Denny

By way of Codicil to my last will & testament & in addition to the matters and things contained therein, I will and desire that the negro woman & her three children be sold all in a lot at the time and for the purpose before mentioned. And I hereby appoint Jesse Thames & Washington H. Aladridge to remove the property to Monroe County and to see that the whole of said will be faithfully carried out. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 23rd June 1852. (seal)

State of Mississipi )
Green County       ) In the Probate Court of said County July Term 1852.

In the matter of the estate of Nathaniel Broughton, deceased. Personally appeared in open court, Walter Denny, one of the subscribing witnesses to a certain instrument of writing perporting to be the last will & testament of Nathaniel Broughton, late of said county deceased, who having first been duly sworn deposeth & saith that the said Nathaniel Broughton signed, published and declared said instrument as his last will & testement on the 24th day of April A.D. 1852, the day of the date of said instrument in the presence of this deponant & in the presence of Farquhar McLeod the other subscribing witness to said instrument, that testator was then of sound & disposing mind & memory, twenty one years of age or upwards and that he , desponant , and Farquhar McLeod subscribed & attested said instrument as witness to the signature & publication thereof at the special instance and request and in the presence of said testater & in the presence of each other on the day and year of the date thereof.
Walter Denny

Sworn to & subscribed in open court. attest D.T. McInnis, Clerk

The State of Mississippi ) Green County ) I William C. Denmark, Clerk of the Probate Court of said county of Green & State of Mississippi hereby certify that the foregoing pages from one to three contain a full & perfect transcript of the last will & testament of Nathaniel Broughton dec'd on file in this office & of the probate thereof in this court. Given under my hand & seal of office this 16th day of Feb. A.D. 1859.
Wm. C. Denmark, Clerk

I James Walley, Judge of the Probate Court of the county of Green & State of Mississippi do certify that Wm. C. Denmark whose certificate under the seal of said court which concludes the preceeding transcript was at the date thereof & is the Clerk of Court, duly elected and qualified & that his said certificate & attestation bears his genuine signature & is in due form of law.

Given under my hand & private seal this the 16th day of Feb. 1859.
James Walley (seal)