IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I John Perry Sen.r ofSouth Carolina St Marks Parish and Cravin County being of Perfecthelth mind and Memory Thanks Be given unto god for it Calling to mindthe Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is Appointed for all menOnce to Die do make and ordain this my Last Will and testament Thatis to Say Principly and first of alle I give and Recomend my Soule togod Almighty who Gave it and my body to the Earth to be buried in aDecent Christian burial and the Descertion of my Executors NothingDoubting but at the generale Resurrection I Receve the Same Again bythe mighty Power of god and as touching my worldly Estate wherewithit has pleas.d god to blefs me With in this Life I Do give Devise andDispose of the same in manner and Form following first I give andbequeath to Sarah Perry my Dearly bloved wife for the term of hirLife alle this Plantation and tract of Land whereon She now Livs--Byhir to be pofsesed with all my household goods and furniture withalle and Singular my Stock of Cattle hogs and hors kind by hir to bePofsesed also One negro man Named Cesar and a Negro woman named Phebeand after hir Death to be Divided According to this my Last Wille andTestament I give to my Loving Son Abiale Perry and to my LovingDaughter Mary Switman I give alle my Stock of Cattle hogs to be withalle my household goods and firniture to Equally Diveded between themafter the Death of my wife Excepting all my Tools Alle so I give tomy beloved Sons Job Perry & Silas Perry and to be Equally Dividedto Job Perry after the Death of my wife alle this Plantation andtract of Land whereon I now Live Containing three hundred Acres byhim to be Pofsefsed also I give and bequeath the Said Negro Man NamedCesar after the Death of my wife To be Equally Devided between my twoSons Silas Perry & Job Perry WHOME I CONSTITUTE APPOINT ANDORDAIN MY SOLE EXECUTORS of this my Last Will and testament also Igive to my Loving Job Perry After the Death of my wife the aboveNegro woman named Phebe also I --To my Loving Son Abraham Perry oneShilling Starling also I give to Loving Son Thomas Perry one ShillingStarling also I give to my Loving Son John Perry one ShillingSterling also I give to my Loving Daughter Sarah Cole one ShillingSterling also I give and bequeath to my beloved Nephew Abiale Draughna track of Land One hundred Acres Lying on the north Side of theSorfork of Black River it being part of a tract of two hundred AcresLand out to the s.d John Perry sen.r Bating and bounding as followsSouth Cost and part of the Same tract Nor.t West on Land Laid out toNath.l Pace and all other Sides bounded by Land Laid out to SilasPerry and I Do hereby Disallow Revoke and Disannulle alle and Everyother form or Wills testaments Legices bequeaths and Excutors by mein any ways before named Willed and bequeathed ratifying this and noot.h to be my Last will and testament in witnefs whereof I have Setmy hand and Seal This twentyeth Day of October in the year of ourLord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven---Signed Sealed andPronounced by the Said John Perry as his Last wille and testament inthe Presents of us who have hereunto Set our Hands-------

John Perry (SEAL)

John Franklin

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Elizabeth x Roberts

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Mornen x Roberts

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Recorded in Will Book A, Page 18

Recorded February 15th 1802

W.m Taylor Ordy

Bundle 78, Pkg. 8