NEWBERRY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - Will of John HOGG - 1782


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Will of John HOGG, 1782

From a certified copy of the Will of John HOGG, Ninety Six District, South Carolina
Probated Nov. 8, 1782, Abbeville Courthouse, Abbeville, SC.   
Box 47, Pack 1065

In the Name of God, Amen, the fourteenth Day of July in the year of our Lord 
God 1781, I John HOGG of the State of South Carolina and the district of 
Ninety-Six, farmer, being very sick and weak in bodey but of perfect mind and 
memory, thanks be given unto God, therefore calling unto mind the mortality of 
my body and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to die, do make and 
ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say, principally and first 
of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and 
for my Bodey I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like and 
decent like manner at the ? of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the General 
Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God, and as 
touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this 
Life, I give devise and dispose of the same-

Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son Lewis HOGG one tract of 
land lying on the so. Side of Enoree River containing one hundred fifty acres 
formerly the property of John Clark.

Item I give and bequeath unto my two sons Thomas HOGG and Stephen HOGG the 
plantation or tract of land that I now live on to be equally divided between 
them when they come of age, it containing two hundred acres. 

Item I give and bequeath unto my son John HOGG one hundred acres lying on the ? 
side of the Enoree River formerly the property of Capt. Charles King;  to my 
son Joseph HOGG, one Eighty Gallon still, also one tract of land that I bought 
of Joseph Reading if it can be procured.

Item I give unto my son Zachariah HOGG and grandson Francis HOGG the tract of 
land that my son James HOGG formerly lived on containing one hundred and fifty 
acres to be equally divided between them---
Item I will and require that my wife Sarah HOGG shall live on the plantation 
that I now live on during her life or pleasure and as for my Household 
furniture and stock to be kept together for the support of the family and 
children and Each child to have an Equal part as they come to age-

Lastly I Constitute and appoint my Son Lewis HOGG and Sarah HOGG my wife my 
only and sole Executors of this my last will and Testament requiring them to 
pay all just Debts and to Receive all Debts due to me.   And I do hereby utterly 
Disallow Revoke and Disannull all and every other former testaments wills and 
legacies requests and executors by me in aney ways before this time named 
Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and none other to be my 
last will and testament.  In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
seal the Day and Year above written.			John (his mark) Hogg          Seal

Signed sealed and delivered 
In the presents of us
Thomas Wafer
William Darby (his mark)
William Sparks

Probated on the 8th day of November 1782 by the oath of William Sparks, taken 
in the Ordinary’s Office before John Ewing Calhoun, Esqr, Ordinary of the 
District of Ninety Six.
 
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