[Partial Will and Testament for Ransom Lee]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09400.008 Author/Creator: Place Written: Tuscalusa County, Alabama Type: Autograph document Date: 20 March 1871 Pagination: Order a Copy
A partial Last Will and Testament from the estate of Ransom Lee, It includes a metes and bounds description of real property. This document states that Susan Lee can live on the estate for the rest of her life, when she dies Thomas Lee and his wife Elizabeth Baker get the land. The document itself has been damaged. It has broken into four pieces at the fold lines, and the docket has been separated.
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