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Will of Daniel Doughty
In the name of God Amen, I Daniel Doughty planter of Pendleton District & State of South Carolina being sick and week in Body but of sound & disposing mind, memory, and understanding thatnks be to God for the same do make this my last will and Testament in manner & form following that is to say I order my Executors hereafter to be named pay all my Just debts, and I give and bequeath first unto my dearly beloved wife Rachel Doughty one feather bed with the furniture belonging to the same and her wearing clothes and no other part of my Estates. Also I give and bequeath unto my two Sons Joseph and Laban [Daniel Jr.] all every other part of my Estate.
Lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my Father Joseph Doughty Jeremiah Doughty and Alexander Kilpatrick Executros of this my last will and Testament and I do hereby make void all other wills by me heretofore made and do declare this to be my last will and Testament. In Witness whereof i have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & four.
Signed Sealed Delivered } Daniel his X mark Doughty
by the above named Daniel }
Douthy to be my last will } Recorded in Will Book A, Page 58
and Testament in the } Recorded February 21, 1805
prescence of us who at his } Proved February 21, 1805
request and in his presence } John Harris, O.P.D.
have subscribed Our named } Roll No. 178
as witnesses hereto }
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State of South Carolina. By his Excellency Paul Hamilton Governor and Commander in Chief in & over the state aforesaid. A Proclamation. Whereas I have received information that Daniel Doughty late of the District of Pendleton has been most barberously and wickedly destroyed by his wife Rachel , his step-father Laban Oakley, & a certain John Andrews, who disregarding all social, moreal, & religious ties did most treacherously & cruelly combine and conspire together and did infuse into the drink and food and medicine of the said Daniel Doughty repeated doses of vatobane or arsenic of the effects of which after the mose excrutiating tortures & lamentable sufferings the said Daniel Doughty did at last die. And whereas the said Rachel the wife of the said Daniel Doughty and the said John Andrews have both been committed to Gaol under strong eviences of their guilt but Laban Oakley the step-father as aforesaid who is believed to have been the first mover of this wicked conspiracy has fled & Eludes the
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1775 - 1805 (30 years)