Will of Ann Drayton Perry, page 8 (signatures and probate certification)

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WILL OF ANN DRAYTON PERRY      PAGE #8

[Pencil at upper right:] 795

Fifty fifth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America

           Ann D. Perry   (LS)

Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Ann D. Perry the testatrix as and for her last will and testament in the presence of us who at her request in her presence & in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses to the due Execution thereof _______________

Rebecca Giles ______ Jacob Ford ______ Robert Wright ______

Proved before James D. Mitchell Esquire O. C. T. D. November 23^d 1830 _______________

At same time Qualified Edward D. Perry Executor _______________

Exd

J.D.M.

Recorded in Will Book 1826 – 1834 Book G

Recorded on Page 448.

[Stamp/ink certification at lower right:] Attest: A True Copy    [signed] Virginia L. McLeod    Clerk Probate Court, Charleston County, South Carolina

AI Notes

Certified typescript copy, eighth and final page of the will of Ann Drayton Perry. Page is numbered ‘#8’ at upper right and bears ‘795’ written in pencil at the top corner — the probate-volume pagination, continuing the run pp. 788–795 that covers p612 (#1) through p617/p618 (#6/#7) and concludes here on p608 (#8). The page closes the will with the regnal phrasing ‘Fifty fifth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America,’ the testator’s signature line, the three witness signatures, the probate before James D. Mitchell (O.C.T.D.) on November 23rd 1830, qualification of Edward D. Perry as Executor, and a 20th-century true-copy attestation by Clerk Virginia L. McLeod of the Charleston County Probate Court — the same hand that signed the certifications on p609 and (per the family-group sheet on p610) on other Charleston probate excerpts in the c. 1969 Perry-dossier packet.

Editorial note: this completes the 1830 will of Ann Drayton Perry begun on p612 (page 1, paginated 788) and continued through p613 (#2, 789), p614 (#3, 790), p615 (#4, 791), p616 (#5, 792), p617 (#6, 793), and p618 (#7, 794). The album sequence is non-contiguous — pp. 612–618 carry pages 1–7 and the final page #8 was bound four pages earlier as p608. The will was recorded on page 448 of Will Book G (1826–1834). The witnesses Rebecca Giles, Jacob Ford, and Robert Wright are local Charleston names of the period. James D. Mitchell served as Ordinary of the Charleston Town District in 1830. The certifying clerk Virginia L. McLeod also signed the 1797 Edward Perry, Junior will certification on p609 — the entire packet of Perry-Drayton probate excerpts was almost certainly prepared together as part of the c. 1969 Colonial Dames Papers #220 dossier assembled by Mrs. James Pickens Walker Jr. and Nancy McEwan Green.