State of South Carolina

Item One: To son Ignatious Griffin one bed and furniture;

Item Two: My negroes be appraised by three good men

Item Three: My negroes be permitted to select their own master who shall pay my estate their appraised value after one year, this failing, shall be sold to highest bidder;

Item Four: My Black Smith tools to my two sons Ignatious Griffin & Obadiah Griffin jointly; balance of personal property to be sold;

Item Five: To son Henry Griffin four hundred Dollars;

Item 6: To granddaughter Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of Nolin Griffin, one hundred dollars;

Item 7: All the balance of my estate to my four children Ignatious, Obadiah and Henry Griffin and Mavel Hill.

Item 8: Obadiah and Ignatious each to pay over to Mavel Hill $10.00 provisions annually and interest on her portion of estate. Any remaining at her death to go to her son Nippy Hill;

Sons Ignatious and Obadiah and my friend John Littlejohn executors.
Signed 8 September 1851 and Seventy Sixth year of American Independence.
Jesse (his mark an X) Griffin (L. S.)
Witnesses:
Thomas H. Littlejohn
Robertson Littlejohn
Salathial Littlejohn
Recorded in Will Book D Page 318, Box 12, Package 27, Recorded 1st day of Dec. 1851, R. Bowden, O. S. D.

Stamped on back: Reproduced from microfilm in South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, S. C. and hand printed: Spartanburg Will Trans., Vol. 3, Bk. D, pp 250-251, J. Griffin, RM

Submitted by Helen Griffin Allen
hallen@arn.net