CRAVEN COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - WILL OF Mildred GERRARD - 1762
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Edward Strother edstrother@aol.com 14 Mar 2008

Source: Will Book Qq: 581-582, Scdah
Written: October 9, 1762
Recorded: July 4, 1766

Will of Mildred Taliaferro Strother Gerrald

South Carolina
In the name of God, Amen. I, Mildred Gerrald of Craven County, South Carolina, 
in the province aforesaid, being weak in body but of sound memory blessed be 
God, do this ninth day of October 1762 in the second year of the reign of our 
Sovereign Lord George the Third of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King 
Defender of the Faith, do make and publish and ordain this my last will and 
testament in manner and form following. That is to say, principally and first 
of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, my 
body to the earth to be interred with decent burial. And as for what worldly 
estate as is pleased God to bless me with, I dispose of in the following 
manner and form.

I give to my beloved grandson Kemp Taliaferro Strother, son of William, my 
Negro girl called Daphney. The other part and whole remainder I do will that 
all my whole estate be kept together till the heirs come of age. That is to 
say, my deceased husband William Strother estate heirs Lucy, Benjamin and 
Samuel Strother, and then the whole equally divided.

I do also give and ordain and order that all the estate real and personal be 
kept in the care and possession of said William Strother, my beloved son, till 
Gabriel Gerrald, heir at law to James Gerrald, my last deceased husband, comes 
to the age of twenty and one. And then my part of the estate to be divided 
equally between my two beloved sons Benjamin and Samuel Strother equally 
shared by my beloved son William Strother aforesaid, who I hereby constitute 
and appoint sole executor of this my last will and testament, declaring this 
and no other to be my only last will and testament.
								Mildred Gerrald
Signed, sealed, published and declared to be the last will and 
testament of the above Mildred Gerrald in presence of:
Joseph Curry, Jeremiah Dargan, Jane Curry