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-IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN this Eleventh Day of February in ye year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and thirty Six ''[11 Feb 1736]'' That I **John Spencer** of St Bartholomews am very sick & weak of Body but of Perfect mind & memory thanks to Almighty God therefore Calling to mind ye mortality of my body & Knowing it is appointed to all men Once to Dye ''[sic]''+IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN this Eleventh Day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and thirty Six ''[11 Feb 1736]'' That I **John Spencer** of St Bartholomews am very sick & weak of Body but of Perfect mind & memory thanks to Almighty God therefore Calling to mind the mortality of my body & Knowing it is appointed to all men Once to Dye ''[sic]''
  
 Principally & first of all I Recommend my Soul to Almighty God my Saviour & Redeemer & my body I Recommend to the Earth from whence it came nothing Doubting but I shall receive the same by the Power of God & Touching Such Worldly Estate as it has pleased God to bless me with in this Life I Leave and bequeath as followeth. Principally & first of all I Recommend my Soul to Almighty God my Saviour & Redeemer & my body I Recommend to the Earth from whence it came nothing Doubting but I shall receive the same by the Power of God & Touching Such Worldly Estate as it has pleased God to bless me with in this Life I Leave and bequeath as followeth.
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 So. ''[South]'' Carolina So. ''[South]'' Carolina
  
-BY the honble ''[honorable]'' Thomas Broughton Esqr. Lieutenant Govornour & Commander in Chief in & over his Majestys Province of So. Carolina and Ordinary of ye Same+BY the honble ''[honorable]'' Thomas Broughton Esqr. Lieutenant Govornour & Commander in Chief in & over his Majestys Province of So. Carolina and Ordinary of the Same
  
 TO **RICHARD WARING** ESQR. TO **RICHARD WARING** ESQR.
  
-I REPOSING ESPECIAL TRUST AND CONFIDENCE in the Integrity fidelity Care and Circumspection of you the said **Richard Waring** Have & by these presents Do Give unto you full Power and Authority to Examine the Several Witnesses to ye Last Will and Testament of **Jno** ''[**John**]'' **Spencer** Late of St. Bartholomews Parrish ''[sic]'' in the Province aforesaid Planter decd as shall be brought before you on their Several Corporal Oath on ye holy Evangilists of Almighty God to be tken touching ye due Execution of the same according to the Act of Parlament ''[sic]'' in that Case made and Provided and also to Administer the ysyal Oath to ye Executors therein nam'd and a due Return of your doings theirin ''[sic]'' you are to make and Give to me under your hand & Seal for my approbation and Allowance.+I REPOSING ESPECIAL TRUST AND CONFIDENCE in the Integrity fidelity Care and Circumspection of you the said **Richard Waring** Have & by these presents Do Give unto you full Power and Authority to Examine the Several Witnesses to the Last Will and Testament of **Jno** ''[**John**]'' **Spencer** Late of St. Bartholomews Parrish ''[sic]'' in the Province aforesaid Planter decd as shall be brought before you on their Several Corporal Oath on the holy Evangilists of Almighty God to be tken touching the due Execution of the same according to the Act of Parlament ''[sic]'' in that Case made and Provided and also to Administer the ysyal Oath to the Executors therein nam'd and a due Return of your doings theirin ''[sic]'' you are to make and Give to me under your hand & Seal for my approbation and Allowance.
  
-Given under my hand and Seal this fourteenth day of June in ye 10 year of his Majestys Reign Anno: Domo: 1737 ''[14 Jun 1737]''+Given under my hand and Seal this fourteenth day of June in the 10 year of his Majestys Reign Anno: Domo: 1737 ''[14 Jun 1737]''
  
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