State of South Carolina)
Sumter District- )
In The Name of God Amen.----------I Isaac Mathewsof Clarendon Countey in the State of District aforesaid Being Tho theAbundant Mercey & Goodnefs of God. Tho weak in Body Yet of asound and perfect Understanding and Memory do constitute this MyLeast Will and Testament and Desire it may be received by all asLuck.---First&emdash;I Bequeath Most Humbly my Soul to God My Maker. Beseeching his Most gracious acceptance of it. Thro the allSufficient Merits and Mediation of my Most Complafsianate Redeemer,Jesus Christ, who gave himself to be an Atonement for my Sins and isAble to Save to the Uttermost all that come unto God. By him Seeinghe Ever Lieveth to Make intercefsion For them and who I Trust willnot reject me a returning persitent Sinner when I came to him forMercy: In this hope and confidence I Render up My Soul with Comforyhumby Beseeching the Most Blefsed and girious Trintiy, one God mostHoly Most Merciful and gracious to Prepare Me for the time of MyDifsolution and then to take Me to himself into that Peace and Restand Incomparable Felicity.-----------Which he has prepared for allthat Leave and Fear his holy Name. Amen Blefsed be God&emdash;I giveMy Body to the Earth from whence it was Taken in full Afsurance ofits Resurrection from thence at the last Day. As for My burial Idesire it May be Deasant without Pompor&emdash;State at thediscretion of My dear Wife & My Executors hereafter Named who IDoubt Not will manage it with all Requisted Freedence as to Myworldly Estate. I will & pofsitively order that all My Debts bepaid First. I give & Bequeath Unto My dear & Leaving WifeRebeccah Matthews a Good Riding Chair & a good chair horse to Bepurchased for her out of My Estate By My Executors. Also My MolattoeBay Ceasar also one Third Part of My Household & kitchenFurniture to dispose of as she May think Proper-----Priveledging herto Leive on any Part of My lands. She shall think fit & usethe&emdash;Same During her Widowhood or untill My two Children shallcome to the Age they are to Receive said Lands-----Secondly- I give& Bequeath Unto My only Son William James Matthew & My onlyDaughter Sarah Ann Matthews all and Singularly My RealProperty&emdash;Exception TwoT************************************************* viz, one Tract ofPeedee Purchased From Daniel McDonald & one other Tract Surveyedfor myself in Wm Burg Binding on lands the Property of the Estate ofGeorge Dickey decd. Said Two Tracts I Empower my Executors to Sellas soon as Conveniently it can Be done & the Money arising fromthe Sale thereof to be put out at Interest to be Equally DividedBetween My Son & Daughter aforesaid to be given up to them Whenthey Cone to the Age of Twenty One years or Marry.---
By my Executors Untill that Time to Remain Underthe Care & Management of my Executors, hereafter Named & I doEmpower my dear & Leaving Wife- Rebecca Matthews, Captain JamesDavis & W H Mawson, whom I do Constitute My Lawful Executrix& Executors to Buy & Sell Property & Estate as they Maythink Most Advantageous for the Benefit of the Heirs thereof and alsoappoint them My said Executirx & Executors Trustees for my Twochildren Before Named- In Wittnefs Whereof I have hereunto set myHand & Seal this Nineteenth Day of October In the year of OurLord of the United States of America The TwentyNinth-------------------------------
Signed & Acknowledged In the) Isaac Matthews Jun1 (SEAL)
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Presence of Us.-------------------)
Darcas X her mark Byrch
Mich1 Birch
Geo: Martin
(Recorded in Will Book A Page 41)
Recorded November 10th 1804
Wm Taylor Ordy
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