WILL OF BENJAMIN PERRY
Kershaw, SC [no date]
SC Will Transcriptions
Not Recorded Wills pages 91-93
From microfilm

In the name of God amen.  I Benjamin Perry of the State of South Carolinas
Planter being in perfect pof in of Body and of perfect mind and memory
thanks be given unto God calling into mind the mortality of my body &
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die Do make and Ordain
this
my last Will and Testament that is to Say principally & first of all, I
give
and recommend my Soul to the hands of Almighty God and gave it, and my
body
I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent burial at the discretion
of
my Executors nothing doubting but at the last and general resurrection I
shall receive the same by the mighty power of God, And as touching fush
Worldly Eftate wherewith it has pleased God to blefs one in this life I
give, demise and dispose of the fame in the following manner and form
First
I lend unto my beloved wife Sarah one Negro boy named Peter during her
life
& after her death for my well beloved Son Zadoh Perry to have him.  Also I
give unto my well beloved fon two Negroes named Hagar & Toney.  Also I
give
my well beloved fon Zadoh Perry all thattract of Land he lives on and up
the
River as far as the lick branch of the Tract that I bought of William
Simpson & I give him one Feather bed freely to be pofsefsed & enjoyed.
Also
I give unto my well beloved fon Benjamin Perry the plantation or tract of
land where I now live and the remainder part of the tract of land that was
bought of William Simpson Also I give unto my well beloved fon Benjamin
Perry three Negroes named Sip, York & Roberts Two Feather beds freely to
be
pofsed and enjoyed.

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Also I give unto my well beloved Daughter Mary Cates Two Negroes named
Venus
and Arter and one Feather bed & one Cow freely to be pofsefsed & enjoyed -
Also I give unto my well beloved Daughter Sarah ["Perry" typed between the
lines] three Negroes named Zilpah, Harry & Sam and two Feather beds, one
Filly called Finney and after the Filley has raised one colt for Alse
Roades
then for Sarah Perry to have her freely and to be pofsefsed & enjoyed -
Also
I lend my well beloved Grand Daughter Alse Roades one Negroe boy named
Lenor
her life time if she never bringeth an heir of her Body for the Said
Negroe
Boy and Colt to return to my children, again I give Alse Roades one
Feather
bed One Cow on the Same terms freely to be pofsefsed and enjoyed - I Give
unto my well beloved Fons Zadoh Perry and Benjamin Perry the New Survey of
land freely to be pofsefsed and enjoyed to be equally divided betwixt them
both Also I give unto my well beloved fon Benjamin Perry my half of the
Mill
freely to be pofsefsed Also It is my desire that all my movables with
Stock
or Horses, Cows & hogs fhould be left for the use of my well beloved Wife
Sarah and Son Benjamin Perry after her death I leave it to Benjamin Perry
to
divide it amongst my children freely to be enjoyed by them, And do hereby
utterly disallow revoke & disannul all & every other former Testaments
Wills
legacies Bequaths & Executors by me in any wise before named Willed and
bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will &
Testament In Witnefs whereof I have hereunto Fet my hand and Feal Also I
do
leave my Fon Benjamin Perry Executor to this Will This eight day of
October
in the year of our Lord one thoufand Seven hundred and eighty nine.
Signed
Sealed published pronounced and declared by the faid Benjamin Perry as his
Last Will & Testament in the presence of us, who in his

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presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto fubfcribed our
names
                                   Benjamin Perry (SEAL)
James Perry
Elizabeth Benfon
Efther (her x mark) Duke

Not Recorded
Recording Date Unknown
Ordinary Unknown
Apt. 56, Pkg. 1968