DARLINGTON DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA - WILLS - RACHEL RUFFIN 1818

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Darlington District, South Carolina
Will of RACHEL RUFFIN    March 27, 1818
Recorded in Will Book 4 page 68
Recorded 1st Sept 1818.   Geo. Bruce Ordy D.D.

In the name of God. Amen. I Rachel Ruffin being infirm in body but of
perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling to mind the mortality of my
body and that it is appointed for all men once to die, do constitute and
appoint and ordain this my last will and testament and first of all I
recommend my Sout to God and my body to a decent Christian burial.

Item: Give my thirds of one hundred and fifty acres of land the property of
the late STEPHEN RUFFIN to be equally divided between JOHN RUFFIN,  NANCY
RUFFIN, ELIZABETH RUFFIN,   SALLY SHEPARD RUFFIN, "HOPE" HANNAH RUFFIN to
them and their heirs forever.

Item: I give to Nancy Ruffin, Salley Shepard Ruffin, "Hope" Hannah Ruffin,
ten head of hogs,   two feather beds and furniture bed steads to be equally
divided between Elizabeth Ruffin, Salley Shepard Ruffin, Hope Hannah Ruffin.
Also my household furniture to be equally divided among the above named
Persons to them and their heirs forever.

Item: I ordain and appoint Nephew Stephen Ruffin,  James Morris Sr.,
Executors of this my last will and Testament made the 27th day of March one
thouse eight hundred & eighteen and in the forty first year of American
Independence.

(Sist) Jacob Morris ) Margaret (her mark) Adkins

(Signed Rachel Ruffin (her mark)
This is the will of Rachel Ruffin, the wife of Stephen Ruffin in South
Carolina.  Since so few Ruffins lived in South Carolina,   we think that
Stephen was the son of Nathaniel, the son of Samuel & Sarah McWilliams,
son of Wm & Faith, son of Robert2 & Elizabeth.

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