Notes for Ezekiel Ephraim GASKINS
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Subject: Ezekiel and Tallitha (Graham) GASKINS
From: Donna Witt
Date: May 05, 1998
Tallitha was Ezekiel's second wife, first wife still unknown(see difference in children's names from each will). I have left mis-spellings, ect. intact.
Donna Witt donna@arts.com
WILL OF EZEKIAL GASKINS IN THE NAIME OF GOD AMEN
I EZEKIAL GASKINS of the State of South Carolina and Destrict of Kerfhaw
beinge halth and sound memory Calinge to mind the mortality of my Boday ad
Knowinge all men has to die I doe make and ordaine this my Laste will and
testament that is princapally and firste of all I Recommend my Soul into the
hands of the Almighty god whom gave it and my Boday to the Earth to beried in
a desent manner at the Disscretion of my Exectors nout doutinge but at the
General resurrection I shall Recieve the Saime Again by the mighty Power of
god and as touchinge such worldy Estate where with it has pleasd god to blefs
me with in this life I give and devise an Expose in the followinge mannar and
form firste I lend to my wife Tallitha Gaskins all my House hold & Kitchen
furniture and choice of one of the horses and stock of Sheep and foure Cows &
Calves & two beath cattle and my stock of hogs and my negroe woman dinah to
the day of her death or Marage then to be Eqully devideid to tween her Seven
Children I likewise give to my Daugher Cathran Macullaster five shillings to
her & her heirs for ever likewise I give to my Son Samuel Gaskins five
shillings to him & his heirs for Ever I like wise Give to my Son Vinson
Gaskins heirs fiver Shillings to them & ther heirs for Ever I like wise give
to my sons Ezekel Gaskins heirs five shillings heirs five Shillings to them &
their heirs for Ever I likewise give to my Daughter Charity Kennedy five
Shillings to her & her heirs for Ever I likewise give to my Daughter Maith
Gaskins five shillings to her & heirs for Ever the Ballance of my land that is
not gave away it is my Desire that it shall Equally davided be twixt my three
Sons John & Thomas & Darlings and their heirs for Ever I likewise leave all my
Slaves and all the Reste of my Estate to be kept to gather and Improved by by
my Executors until Darlings is eighteen years olde then all my Estate to be
sold and the money to be Equally devided between my Seven Children Daniel
David Dennis John & Margret & Thomas & Darlings Also I Apinte Daniel Gaskins
and my wife Tallitha Gaskins my hole and Sole Executers to this my laste will
and Testament and doe here unto set my hand and seal this 22 february 1810 and
in the thirtieh fifth yeare of the Independance of Americk
his
Ezekel X Gaskins
(seal)
mark
Witnefs
Wm Bracey
Robert Williams
Benny King
Recorded in Will Book C, page 31 (81?)
recorded march 10, 1812
Ord. John Doby
Apt.25, Pkg-915 (916?)
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From Tammy freethink2@yahoo.com, 25 Jan 2004, cousin of Muriel K. Hanna who wrote GASKINS/GASKIN Family of
Williamsburg and Kershaw County South Carolina.
Craven County, 1768. Ezekiel Gaskins, a grant of 100 acres on NE side of Lynches Creek, bounded on all
sides by vacant land from George III. (Possibly the land located today at the Gaskins Cemetery at Hannah,
SC. Ezekiel appears to have participated in the Revolutionary War by giving supplies of crops, food
and livestock to the Patriots, but apparently did not join in the fighting. Because of his contributions,
his name is listed in the Patriot Index of DAR. In the 1790 Census, Ezekiel is in Prince Frederick
Parish, Georgetown District with self and 5 free white males under 16, 2 white females and 6 slaves.
In 1795, Ezekiel left Williamsburg and moved to Sumter District (now in Lee County). He seems to have lived
there with his younger children until at least 1803. It is said, the reason he left Williamsburg ws to get
his second family away from his older children because they could not get along with his new wife, Tallitha.
He was a farmer and a miller. Ezekiel and Tallitha lie lost in unmarked graves in the woods on property
belonging today to the Herb
Young family. Will: February 22, 1810, Recorded March 10, 1812.
Tallitha's date of death is from the Camden Journal, May 30, 1840 and states that she died May 5, 1840,
85-90 years old.
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