Anderson County ScArchives Will Records.....Milford, John, Sr. (Recorded December 1837)
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In the name of God Amen, John Milford Senior of the District of Anderson & State 
or South Carolina, being of sound & disposing mind & memory & calling to mind 
the uncertainty of life & being desirous to dispose of all such worldly estate 
as it has been pleased God to bless me with, do make and ordain this my last 
will & Testament, in manner & form following.  To wit.   
 
  Item 1st.  I give my beloved wife Rebecca the Land whereon I now live during 
her natural life & I also give to her one mare & colt & saddle, one bedstead 
furniture, one chest & walnut table, one cow & calf & one pot & oven & all her 
wearing apparel & all the clothes in the chest.  
 
  Item 2nd.  I give to my son Phillip Milford the land whereon I now live after 
the death of my wife.  
 
  Item 3rd.  I give to my son Henry a note of hand, which I hold on him to be 
given to him when demanded.   
 
  Item 4th.  It is my will that all the balance of my personal property be sold 
& equally divided amongst my children John & Robert & Sully Martha & Mary, the 
balance of my children being already provided for, after all my lawful debts are 
paid.   
 
And lastly, I do hereby appoint my friend Charles Stark my lawful executor to 
this my last will & testament, hereby revoking all other wills by me heretofore 
made in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed me seal this  
___ day of  ____  (no dates legible)  
 
    
 
John Milford (L.S.)  
 
  Signed, sealed published and declared as & for the last will & testament of 
the above named John Milford Senior in the presence of us:  
 
  Blackman Burton  
 
John H. Saxon  
 
Peyton T. Burton  
 
    
 
Recorded in will book B, Page 71  
 
Recorded December 12, 1837  
 
Proved December 12, 1837  
 
John Harris, O.A.D.  
 
Roll No. 423  

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