Lv South Carolina. 565 



idence, near Chapel, and now rest in peace by the side of Mrs. Anna 

 Wofford, the partner of his youth and the sharer of his affections. 



Extract from the Will of the Rev. Benjamin Wofford, 

 Deceased. 



Item 26. For the purpose of establishing and endowing a college 

 for literary, classical, and scientific education, to be located in my 

 native district, Spartanburg, and to be under the control and man- 

 agement of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of 

 my native State, South Carolina, I order and direct my executor, 

 hereinafter named, to pay over, transfer, and deliver fifty thousand 

 dollars to the Rev. W. M. Wightman, H. Bass, W. A. Game well, J. 

 H. Wheeler, W. Barringer, H. A. C. Walker, John Porter, David 

 Derrick, Major Harvey Wofford, H. H. Thomson, Joseph W. Tuck- 

 er, Clough Beard, and Dr. Benjamin Wofford, or to the survivor or 

 survivors of them, in whom I vest the said sum of fifty thousand dol- 

 lars, with none other than a fiduciary estate in trust, nevertheless, 

 to, for, and upon the uses, interests, and purposes hereinafter ex- 

 pressed and directed of and concerning the same : 



In trust, 1st. To purchase a tract or tracts of land in the District 

 of Spartanburg, and State of South Carolina, which they, or the sur- 

 vivors or survivor of them, shall deem a suitable site or location for 

 college-buildings, and to erect such college-buildings, professors' 

 houses, and other offices and buildings thereon as they, or the sur- 

 vivors or survivor of them, deem expedient ; that they purchase the 

 land and erect the said buildings as soon as the same can be done 

 with proper economy. 



2d. That after the purchase of such land, and the erection of such 

 buildings, the said Rev. W. M. Wightman, H. Bass, W. A. Game- 

 well, J. H. Wheeler, W. Barringer, H. A. C. Walker, John Porter, 

 David Derrick, Major Harvey Wofford, H. H. Thomson, Joseph W. 

 Tucker, Clough Beard, and Dr. Benjamin Wofford, they, or the 

 survivors or survivor of them, shall transfer and convey the whole 

 of said estate of land and buildings heretofore especially intrusted 

 to and vested in them in trust aforesaid, to a board of trustees, con- 

 sisting of thirteen persons, to be appointed once in every two years 

 by the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of the 

 State of South Carolina, and their successors, in trust always for the 

 uses and purposes of a college, free from all debts and contracts of 

 any board of trustees to be appointed as aforesaid, and free from all 

 power of disposing and conveying away the same by the said trustees 



