Will of Joseph Elicott, SC, 11 Jan 1711

Carolina Ss:

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Joseph Elicott in Charles Town in the Sd. [said] Province Sentl.[?] Being very Sick & weak of body but of Sound & Perfect mind & memory Blessed for it but Considering the uncertainty of This Transitory Life & That all flesh Must yield unto Death when it Shall Please God to Call Do make and Put this my last Will & Testamt [Testament] in writing revoaking [sic] & making void all former & other will or Wills by me heretofore made or declared to be made Either by word or writing & this is to be deemed as my last will & Testamt. and no other ----------

FIRST and principally I Commend my Soul to Almighty God who Gave it & my Body to the Earth from Whence it was Taken to be decently Buried by my Executrix & Executor hereafter Named and Now as to the worldly Estate as it has Pleased God to bless me withal [sic] I Give and Dispose of in Maner [sic] and forms following vizt.

ITEM I Give devise & bequeath unto my Loving brother John Chapman one mourning Gold Ring ----------

ITEM I Give Devise & bequeath unto Loving Sister Rebecca Chapman wife of John Chapman one Gold Ring ----------

ITEM I Give Devise & Bequeath unto my Brother Rouland Story one mourning Gold Ring ----------

ITEM I Give devise & bequeath unto my Loving Sister Elizabeth Story Wife of Rouland Sory [sic: Story] one mourning Gold Ring ----------

ITEM I Give Devise & Bequeat [sic] unto my Loving wife Mary Elicott all the rest & residue & rest of my Estate both reall [sic] & Personall [sic] what nature Kind or Quallity Soever Either in in [sic] this Province or Else where to have hold & Dispose of the Same from Time to Time as She Shall Think fitt All & Every The sd. Rest & residue of my reale and Personal Estate what Nature kind or Quality soever or wheresoever unto my sd. Loving wife Mary Elicott Her heirs Execcurs. [Executors] & assigns to her and their own Propper [sic] usses Benifitt & Behoof for ever ----------

AND Lastly I Joseph Elicott do make ordain nominate & appoint my sd. Wife Mary Elicott and my very Good friend Robert Tradd Executrix & Executr. [Executor] of this my Last will and Testamt.

IN WITNESS whereof I the sd. Joseph Elicott have hereunto Set my hand and Seal This Eleventh day of January In the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred & Eleven [11 Jan 1711] ----------

Joseph Elicott (SEAL)

Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the Testator to be his Last Will and Testamt. in the Presence of us who subscribed our names as witnesses in the Presence & Before him

Anne Mills
John Cook Jun
George Bedon

Taken Before Me
Charlee Craven

Date of Recording and Recorder Not Given

Recorded in Original Will Book 1711-1713[-1718?]
Recorded on Page 56

Recorded That on the 26th day of May 1714 [26 May 1714] Personally appeared before me Anne Mills one of The Evidences to the within Will and that also on this Tenth Day of Septembr. 1715 [10 Sep 1715] Personally appeared John Cook one of the Evidences to the Sd. Will who being Severally Sworn on the Holy Evangelists Did Declare that Each of them was present & Did Se [see] the Testator Joseph Elicott Sign Seal Publish and Declare the wth. in [within] instrumt. [instrument] of writing as his last Will and Testament and that George Beadon [Bedon] subscribed as Evidence to the same and that at the Time of his so doing he was to the best of the Depont. [Deponent's] Knowledge in Pfect. [Perfect] mind & Memory

• South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Microfilm ST0511. Wills (WPA transcripts). Series S213216, Volume 1 (1711), Pages 74-75.