A Glimpse of Eighteenth Century Charleston Extracts from the Will of George DICK of Charleston, South Carolina South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, images online at the Ancestry website. This collection includes both handwritten and typewritten will transcripts.     Will dated: 24 Oct 1773 Probate date: 5 Nov 1773 In the Name of God Amen I George Dick of Charleston in the province of South Carolina mariner .... I give and bequeath unto James Dalrymple of Charleston aforesaid mariner the sum of two hundred pounds currency per annum .... I hereby will and direct that my executors hereafter named do pay to Jenny Dick a free Negro who now lives with me as my servant and to whom I gave her freedom such allowance for her support from time to time, as they in their discretion shall think fit out of my estate during the term of her natural life. And I hereby give and bequeath unto her the use and occupation of my house or tenement in Chalmers Alley now in the possession of Mr Jonathan Clark silversmith rent free during the said term of her natural life .... I do give devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my real and personal estate unto my friends John Neufville, John Simpson and Charles Johnston to hold the same unto the said John Neufville, John Simpson and Charles Johnston and their heirs executors and administrators for ever upon trust nevertheless that immediately after my decease they do take my son Alexander Dick, son of the aforesaid Jenny Dick under their particular care and direction and maintain and support him giving him a proper and suitable education and at the age of fourteen years that they do bind him Apprentice to a good Carpenter and when my said son shall arrive at the age of twenty one years and not before that they do deliver over to him all the residue of my estate both real and personal which shall remain .... And I do hereby nominate and appoint my said friends John Neufville, John Simpson and Charles Johnston trustees for my said son and executors of this my last will and testament and also guardians jointly and severally of the person and estate of my said son during his minority .... Notes There is a record that, on 14 April 1764, George Dick registered the schooner Charming Sally which he owned with Alexander Anderson of Charleston (see The Papers of Henry Laurens, Volume 3, University of South Carolina Press, 1972, footnote at bottom of p. 124). prepared by WhistlerHistory, 2020.