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- Will of SAMUEL RATCLIFF SENIOR -1772- IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, Samuel Ratcliff of Craven County in SouthCarolina, St. Marks Parish, being in perfect health of body andmemory,thanks be given to God: calling unto mind the mortality of mybody, andknowing it is appointed once, for all men to die, do make andordain thismy Last Will and Testament, that is to say, principally andfirst of all,I give and recommend my soul into the hand of AlmightyGod, that gave it,and my body to be buried in a decent Christianburial, at the discretionof my Executors, nothing doubting but at thegeneral resurrection I shallreceive the same again by the mighty powerof God, and as touching suchworldly estate whereas it has pleased Godto bless me in, I give, devise,and dispose of the same in thefollowing manner and form.
First, I give and bequeath to Samuel Butler, my loving grandson,onehundred acres of land, with my dwelling house and plantationwherein Inow dwell.
Also I give and bequeath to my grandson, Samuel Butler, and JohnButler,all my moveable estate, with all my household goods andchattles to beequally divided between Samuel Butler and John Butler,after my death.
Likewise, I give unto my well beloved wife, her lifetime inmyplantation, whom I likewise constitute, make, and ordain thesoleExecutrix, with my grandson, Samuel Butler, executors, executor ofthismy Last Will and Testament
And I do hereby uttterly disallow, revoke, and disannul all andeveryother former testament, wills, legacies, bequests and Executorsby me inany wise before named, willed, and bequeathed, ratifying andconfirming,and no other to be my Last Will and Testament, in Witnesswhereof I havehereunto set my hand & Seal this twenty-ninth day ofJuly in the year ofour Lord, One Thousand, Seven Hundred andSeventy-two.
his Samuel "R" Ratclif mark
JOHN HARDEE SARAH HARDEE STEPHEN MOTTE
(Recorded in Will Book 1774-1779, page 582, Camden Dist. SC. See alsoS.C. Archives, Charleston Wills (WPA) Vol. 17, p. 744)
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1700 - Bef 1778 (77 years)
