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+ | ====== Will of Richard Bedon, Colleton County SC, 03 Oct 1738 ====== | ||
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+ | This is not my original transcription from the source; rather, I have excerpted from James Barnwell Heyward' | ||
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+ | In the name of God, Amen; the third day of October, Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and thirty eight '' | ||
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+ | First and principally I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God, my Merciful Creator, and to Jesus Christ my only loving Saviour and Redeemer, by whose merits I hope for life Everlasting--my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the direction of my Executors hereafter named, in sure and certain hope of a joyfull '' | ||
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+ | My worldly goods which it has pleased God to bless me with I order and dispose of, in manner and form following, viz; First it is my expressed Will and Desire that all my just Debts and Funeral Expenses be duly paid and satisfied as soon as possible. | ||
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+ | Item, I give and bequeath unto my loving daughter **Mary Hewett** one Negro Girl named Lucy, and a riding Horse named Frolick, to her and the heirs of her body forever; and not to be disposed of by her husband by any manner of ways or means whatsoever. | ||
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+ | Item, I give and bequeath unto my loving daughter **Ann Barnett** one Negro Girl named Rose, and a Bed and furniture to her and her heirs forever; and it is my Will that my Son-in-law **George Barnett** have the use of Thirty '' | ||
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+ | Item, I give and bequeath unto my loving Son **Richard Bedon**, my Sword and Cane, a Stone Ring and a pair of Silver shoe-Buckles to him and his heirs forever. | ||
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+ | Item, it is my express Will and desire and I hereby give full power in ordering my Executors to sell and dispose of a tract of land at Pon Pon River containing Eighteen Hundred '' | ||
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+ | Item, Whereas I have already given unto my other children a sufficient part of my Estate, therefore I now give and bequeath unto my loving wife **Elizabeth Bedon** all the rest and residue of my personal Estate and the free use and improvement of my home and all the lands belonging to it, not already disposed of, during her natural life--and after her decease, then I give and bequeath the said house and lands of my loving Son **Richard Bedon** and to his heirs forever. | ||
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+ | Lastly, I do make and ordain my loving wife **Elizabeth Bedon** Executrix, and my loving Son **Richard Bedon**, and my Son-in-law **John Norman**, Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and I do utterly revoke and annul all former Wills by me heretofore made. | ||
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+ | In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the day and year above mentioned. | ||
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+ | **Rich' | ||
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+ | Signed, sealed and declared in the presence of us. | ||
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+ | **Tho' | ||
+ | **John Prentice**.\\ | ||
+ | **Samuel Balor**. | ||
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+ | ===== Source ===== | ||
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+ | * James Barnwell Heyward, compiler, //The Genealogy of the Pendarvis-Bedon Families of South Carolina, 1670-1900: Together With Lineal Ancestry of Husbands and Wives Who Intermarried With Them; Also References to Many Associated Southern Families// (Atlanta, Georgia: Foote & Davies Company, 1905), 62--63. | ||
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