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MOSES MATHIS' LAST WILL & TESTAMENT
In the name of God, Amen, I MOSES MATHAS of Darlington County in the State of
South Carolina, planter:
Being weak in body: but of and in perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto
God, calling to mind the mortallity of my body and knowing that it 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 to the hands
of almighty God athat gave it, and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried
in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executor ; 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 has pleased God
to bless me in this life, I give demise and dispose of the same in the following
manner and form:
First, I give and bequeath unto my son ENOS MATHAS two hundred acres of land
whereon he now lives.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son in law, MARMADUKE WILLIAMS two hundred
acres of land whereon he now lives. Also I give and bequeath unto my sons ENOS
MATHIS and MARMEDUKE WILLIAMS, jointly to them both my grist mill and one acre
of land joining the said mill.
Item: I give and bequeath to my son in law DANIEL WINDHAM one hundred and thirty
acres of land whereon he now lives.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son MOSES MATTHAS my old plantation on the
East side of Boggy Gully containing ninety and nine acres of land.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son JOHN MATTHAS one hundred acres of land it
being part of two surveys fifty acres to be taken out of the upper part of Byrd
Survey granted unto AMOS WINDHAM.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son EDMOND MATTHAS one hundred acres of land
called the pond survey and also fifty acres of land out of the upper end of Byrd
Survey whereon the Saw Mill stands.
Item: I give and bequeath unto BURREL HALFERD and OWEN HALFERD each of them one
hundred acres of land.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my three sons, namely JOHN, MOSES and EDMOND
MATTHAS, and BURREL and OEN HALFERD all five whose names is now mentioned, all
my household furniture and stocs of all kinds to be equally divided between them
after my wifes decease but not before.
And I do hereby constitute make and ordain the sold executors of this my last
will and Testemony; ENOS MATTHAS, JOHN MATTHAS, MOSES MATTHAS, and MARMEDUKE
WILLIAMS: utterly disallowing revoking and disannuling all and every other
former Testament Wills legator bequeaths and executors by me in any wise before
named. Willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be
my last Will and Testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty first day of
March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Four.
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said MOSES MATHHAS as his
last will and Testament in the presencd of us who in the presence of each other
have hereunto subscribed our names.
His mark X MOSES MATTHIS
MICAH MIXON
MOSES MATTHIS
JOHN MATTHIS
Vol. Administration of Estates 15, page 96
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