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+ | ====== Will of Joseph Smith, Colleton County SC, 17 Sep 1738 ====== | ||
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+ | IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I **JOSEPH SMITH** OF ST PAULS PARISH IN Colleton County & province aforesaid being inform in Body but of sound mind and memory and being mindful of my Mortality do make Ordain and Ratify this my Last will and Testament hereby Revokeing '' | ||
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+ | I give and Bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God in Certain hope of resurrection to Eternal Life thro the Merits Christ my only Saviour I Commit my Body to the Earth to be decently Buried at the discretion of my Executors and my Debts and Funeral Charges being first paid I dispose of my Worldly goods as Followeth | ||
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+ | Imprimis I give and Bequeath unto my Beloved wife **Mary Smith** my whole Estate real and personal (after my debts and funeral Charges are paid) Excepting fifty acres of land adjoyning '' | ||
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+ | 2dly I Give and Bequeath unto my beloved Nephew **John Prentice** fifty acres of land on the west side of my Tract of land on which I live & adjoyning that Tract of land on which Mr **Samuel Stiles** now dwells to him & his Heirs forever | ||
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+ | 3dly & Lastly I Constitute & appoint my Beloved Wife **Mary Smith** to be my Exectrix '' | ||
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+ | **Joseph Smith** (Seal) | ||
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+ | Signed Sealed published by The Testator as his Las will and Testament in the Presence of Us the Subscribers | ||
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+ | **Elizth** '' | ||
+ | **Samll** '' | ||
+ | **John Norman** | ||
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+ | Recorded this 2d Day of Janyr 1739/40 '' | ||
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+ | Recorded in will book 1736--40, page 603 | ||
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+ | ===== Sources ===== | ||
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+ | * South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Microfilm ST0511. Wills (WPA transcripts). Series S213216, Volume 4 (1736), Page 285. | ||
+ | * "South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," | ||
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