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In the name of God Amen.
I, Joshua Ward of All
Saints in the State of South Carolina being of
sound mind and memory but feeble in health do
make, publish and declare the present writing
as and for my last will and testament hereby
revoking all other wills and testaments by me
at any time heretofore made.
I give and bequeath to
my dear wife my plate and furniture the rest
and residue of whatever property I may have I
give and bequeath equally to be divided among
my dear wife and children.
I hereby nominate and
appoint my friend the Rev. A. Toomer Porter the
guardian of my son Samuel Mortimer Ward and I
desire the said A. Toomer Porter to have the
exclusive and entire ________ and charge of the
execution and learning of my said son. In the
event of the death of the said A. Toomer Porter
I nominate and appoint Mrs. Magdalen Porter the
wife of the said A. Toomer Porter with the like
care and charge of my said son the guardian of
my said son.
I appoint my dear wife
executrix of this my last will and
testament.
Witness my hand and
seal at Charleston this 29th day of November in
the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.
Signed Joshua Ward (SS)
Signed, sealed, published and declared by
the said testator as and for his last will and
testament in the presence of us who in his
presence and at his request and in the presence
of each other have hereunto subscribed our
names as witnesses
S. H. Mortimer
Johanna D. Ward
Wm Allston Pringle
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State of South Carolina
Charleston County
Present Hon. Geo.
Buist Probate Judge for the County of
Charleston
Personally appeared
Hon. Wm Allston Pringle of Charleston City
Judge and Subscribing witness to the annexed
instrument of writing purporting to be the last
will and testament of Joshua Ward let of
Georgetown County Dec'd being duly sworn
deposeth and saith that he was present and did
see the said instrument of writing duly
executed by the said Joshua Ward and deponent
further saith that the said Joshua Ward at the
time of executing the said instrument of
writing to the best of deponent's knowledge and
belief of sound mind and disposing memory and
understanding and that he Wm Allston Pringle
the deponent and Samuel H. Mortimer and Johanna
D. Ward in the presence of each other and of
the said Joshua Ward and at his request signed
their names as witnesses to the due execution
of the same.
Sworn and subscribed
to before me this 14th day of May in the year
of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.
W. Allston Pringle
George Buist
Probate Judge
In the Court of Probate Joshua Ward's
will proven before me R. O. Bush Judge of
Probate for Georgetown County on the 19th day
of April 1869.
R. O. Bush
Probate Judge
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State of South Carolina
Charleston County
Present Hon. Geo Buist
Probate Judge for Charleston County personally
appeared Samuel H. Mortimer of Charleston
County- Farmer one of the subscribing witnesses
to the annexed instrument of writing purporting
to be the last will and testament of Joshua
Ward late of Georgetown County Dec'd who being
duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was
present and did see the said instrument of
writing duly executed by the said Joshua Ward
and deponent further saith that the said Joshua
Ward at the time of executing the said
instrument of writing was to the best of
deponent's knowledge and belief of sound and
disposing mind and memory and understanding and
the said Samuel H. Mortimer the deponent and
Johanna D. Ward and Wm Allston Pringle in the
presence of each other and of the said Joshua
Ward and at his request signed their names as
witnesses to the due execution of the
same.
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 20th day of April in the year of
Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.
Signed S. H. Mortimer
Geo Buist
Probate Judge
Charleston County
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State of South Carolina
Georgetown County
I do hereby certify that the annexed
instrument of writing is a true and correct
copy of the last will and testament of Joshua
Ward let of this county Dec'd which was duly
proven and allowed according to the laws of
South Carolina and of the Probate thereof and
filed and recorded in the Court of Probate on
the 19th day of April AD one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.
In testimony thereof Witness my hand and
seal of office this 16th day of May
1869.
R. O. Bush
Judge of Probate
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The State of South Carolina Third
Judicial Circuit
I John L. Green Judge
of the Third Judicial Court hereby certify that
R. O. Bush whose signature is annexed to the
foregoing certificate is a legal appointed and
commissioned Judge of Probate for Georgetown
County that the said county is the Third
Judicial Circuit of said state of which I am
the duly commissioned judge that the said
certificate is under the official seal and in
the handwriting of the said R. O. Bush and that
the said probate of the will of the said Joshua
Ward is in exact and full accordance and
compliance with the laws of South Carolina and
at full credit and authority is due to the said
probate and the said certificate of the said R.
O. Bush.
Witness my hand the
twenty-six day of Oct 1869.
John L. Green
*****
The State of South Carolina
Georgetown County
I C. J. Coe clerk of
the Court General Session and Common Pleas do
hereby certify that the Hon. John L. Green
whose signature is annexed to the foregoing
certificate is the Judge of the Third Circuit
of the State of South Carolina.
Witness my hand and
seal of the said Court this 13th day of Oct AD
1869.
C. J. Coe
C. C. P.
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