(COLONIAL) COLLETON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - WILL OF REYNOLDS COX - 1746 ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. SCGenWeb File Manager: "Victoria Proctor" Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives by: Bushy Hartman (mihartman@InfoAve.Net) 10 Feb 2000 ---------------------------------------- WILL OF REYNOLDS COX South Carolina To all People to whom these Presents shall come I Reynolds COX do send Greeting. Know ye that I the said Reynolds COX of Wadmalaw in the parish of St Johns Colleton County in the Province aforesaid Planter for and in Consideration of Love good will and & Affection which I have and Do bear towards my true and well Beloved Wife Margaret COX of the place aforesaid have given and granted and by these Presents do freely Clearly and absolutely give and grant unto the said Margaret COX her Heirs Executors or Administrators One Negro Woman named Celia and her Two Children named Sampson and Dorinda of which with these Presents I have delivered her the said Margaret COX To have and to hold ye said Negro Celia and her two Children aforenamed to her the said Margaret COX her Heirs executors or Administrators from henceforth as her and their Proper Goods and Chattlells absolutely without any manner of Condition in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Second day of August in the twentieth Year of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittian France and Ireland King &c and in the Year of our Lord God one thousand Seven hundred and forty Six- Sign'd and Seald and Deliver'd South Carolina Berkeley County In the presence of us Personally Appeared before William MORGAN Senr me William MORGAN Senr one of Richd MASON the Witnesses to the above Instrument of writing who being duly Sworn made Oath that he did See Reynolds COX Sign Seal and as his Act and Deed deliver the same for the uses therein mentioned that he Signed his name as a Witness there to and did also see Richard MASON the other Subscribing Witness do the same. Sworn before me this 18th December 1746 Jno CHAMPNEYS J P Recorded 18 Decemr 1746 [Misspellings are from the original transcript] **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ****************************************************************