Person:Thomas Grimball (1)

Will of Paul Grimball. Esq., of Edisto Island, Colleton County, made December 13, 1695, and proved before Thomas Cary, Secretary, February 20, 1696, gave wife, Mary Grimball, his plantation on Edisto Island, containing sixteen hundred acres of land, with the buildings thereon, for life, at her death to go to his son, Thomas Grimball; directed Thomas Grimball, in consideration of receiving the plantation aforesaid, to pay, within one year after his wife's death, to his daughters, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Linkly and Providence Grimball, £10. each: gave son-in-law, Christopher Linkly, and his wife, Ann, his four hundred acres of the eight hundred acres of land which he and Linkly had purchased in copartnership from the Lords Prorietors, said Linkly paying to testator's son, John Grimball, fro. one year after testator's death; gave wife, Mary, all rings, plate and jewels, with her choice of feather beds, one bolster, two pillows, two pairs of sheets, a blanket, curtains, counterpanes, a ring, and a negro girl, Ginny, and one-third part of the remainder of his personal estate, and, besides the foregoing, legacies to the value of £40, "which shee 'hath made of severell things yt. I gave her ye benefitt of & yt. shee shall not bee accountable for the same"; gave the remaining two-thirds of his personal estate to his children, Thomas and John Grimball, Mary Hamilton, Ann Linkly and Providence Grimball, to be equally divided among them; appointed wife, Mary, sole executrix. Witnesses: James Williams, Jonathan Amory, Mary Mullins and Sarah Powys, "when Mr. Grimball gave to ye. Honble. ye Governr. Archdale a good ring to be pd. by his executor as a token of his respect."
Recorded by Odingsells, D.S.. February 22, 1696.
(Page 352. The recording of the will of Paul Grimball was started on page 350, but so much as had been recorded was scratched out and the recording done on page 352. Page 351 is blank.)

Will of William Adams, glover, of Charles Town, South Carolina, made June 1, 1707, gave children, William, John, Jane and Lydia Adams, all of his estate, real and personal, after deducting all charges for their bringing up, to be equally divided between them; appointed Peter Guerard and William Elliott, executors: directed that his son, William, be bound as an apprentice until twenty-one to the said William Elliott; directed that his daughter, Jane, live with her sister, Eliza Grimball, wife of Thomas Grimball, until she should reach the age of eighteen and that she should be "brought up to her needle"; directed that his daughter, Lydia, be brought up until she reach the age of eighteen and be "put to school to learn" by Mrs. Elizabeth Wetherick and that the executors agree with Mrs. Wetherick for the same.
Witnesses: William Sadler, John Child, Timothy Bellamy, Thomas Hepworth.
Recorded July 22, 1707.
(Page 133.)

August 7, 1711, Mary Grimball, Thomas Grimball and James Burtt executed a bond to Governor Gibbes for Mary Grimball's faithful performance of her trust as "Guardian and Tutor" of Christofer Linkley, a minor.
Witness: Thomas Hepworth, Deputy Secretary.
(Pages 175-176.)
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[Note: Christopher is the son of his sister Ann.]