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Will Book W
1821-1839
Columbia County, Georgia
Pages 169-172
Attest S. Crawford, Clerk
Adam Jones Will
Registered April 19th, 1827
Georgia
Columbia County
In the name of God, Amen, I, Adam Jones, farmer, being weak in body but of sound mind and sane memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed to all men once to die, make and ordain my last will and testament in the words and figures following, to wit,
I wish my Executors to bury my body in a Christianlike manner.
Item the 1st. I wish all my just debts paid which I may owe at my decease.
Item the 2nd. I give and bequeath to my son Richard H. Jones, two negroes, to wit, Warren and Nancy his wife and her issue and one bed and furniture.
Item the 3rd, I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Walker Jones three negroes to wit, Rebecca, Harriot, and Martha and one bed and furniture.
Item the 4th, I give and bequeath to Sarah Ann, daughter of Allen Jones, a negro Girl named Sarah and her issue forever.
Item the 5th, I give and bequeath unto Martha Gibson fifty dollars.
Item the 6th, I give and bequeath unto Wiley K. Jones and Minor Jones my Grandsons and Judith Gibson one negro woman named Milly and her issue to be equally divided between them share and share alike when Judith Gibson arrives at the age of eighteen years reserving to Wiley K., Minor and Judith their proportionable part in the profits of said negroes.
Item the 7th, I give and bequeath unto Palatiah Dooly a negro woman named Fanny and one bed and furniture.
Item the 8th, I give and bequeath unto Polly W. Bealle one hundred dollars.
Item the 9th, I give and bequeath unto my daughter-in-law Sarah Walker, widow of Wiley K. Jones, one hundred dollars.
Item the 10th, I wish my negro man Frank sold and the money to be appropriated to paying the above named legacies and all other debts and expenses which I may owe at my death and lastly I appoint Thomas Dooley and Richard H. Jones Executors to this my last will and testament to carry the same into effect.
Signed, sealed and acknowledged to be my last Will and testament in the presence of us who saw him sign and acknowledge the same and signed it ourselves as witnesses October 15th, 1826.
H. G. Smithson Adam Jones (Seal)
Thomas J. Ivey
Mark Price Davis
Codicil 1st
In addition to the former part of my Will I give and bequeath to my son-in-law Benjamin Holiday one hundred dollars under all the formalities of the above.
H. G. Smithson Adam Jones (Seal)
Thomas J. Ivey
Mark Price Davis
Codicil 2nd
It is my wish that my negro Jim be equally divided between Martha Gibson's children then the youngest arrives at the age of eighteen years reserving to each their shares of the profit of said negro in their minority.
H. G. Smithson Adam Jones (Seal)
Thomas J. Ivey
Mark Price Davis
Georgia
Columbia County
Mark P. Davis and Henry G. Smithson two of the subscribing witnesses to the within instrument of writing, the former after affirming and the latter after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that they saw Adam Jones the testator sign seal and pronounce the within instrument to be his last Will and testament and that the testator was of sound mind and disposing memory at the time of subscribing the same and that they together with Thomas I. Ivey subscribed to the same as witnesses in the presence and by the request of the testator and they in the presence of each other.
Mark Price Davis
H. G. Smithson
Sworn to and affirmed to
and subscribed in Open Court
this 10th day of January 1827
S. Crawford, Clerk
Georgia
Columbia County
By the Court of Ordinary for said County.
To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting.
Know ye that on the tenth day of January in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty-seven, the last Will and testament of Adam Jones late of said County deceased was exhibited in open Court and in common form of law proved and admitted to record a copy of which is hereunto annexed and administration of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of said deceased was granted to Richard H. Jones, one of the Executors in and by said Will named and appointed he having first taken the Oath and performed all other requisites required by law of him by order of said Court, and the virtue of these presents legally authorized to administer the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased according to the tenor and effect of the said Will and testament and according to law. And he is hereby required to render a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased, and appraised and returned to the Court according to law and to render a true and correct account to the said Court of his actings and doings yearly and every year until his administration is fully completed.
Witness the Honorable Arthur Foster one of the Judges of the said Court of Ordinary the tenth day of January in the year of our Lord 1827.
Arthur Foster (Seal)
Attest
S. Crawford, Clerk.
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Georgia
Columbia County
By the Court of Ordinary for said County.
To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting.
Know ye that on the tenth day of January in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty-seven, the last Will and testament of Adam Jones late of said County deceased was exhibited in open Court and in common form of law proved and admitted to record a copy of which is hereunto annexed and administration of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of said deceased was granted to Richard H. Jones, one of the Executors in and by said Will named and appointed he having first taken the Oath and performed all other requisites required by law of him by order of said Court, and the virtue of these presents legally authorized to administer the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased according to the tenor and effect of the said Will and testament and according to law. And he is hereby required to render a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased, and appraised and returned to the Court according to law and to render a true and correct account to the said Court of his actings and doings yearly and every year until his administration is fully completed.
Witness the Honorable Arthur Foster one of the Judges of the said Court of Ordinary the tenth day of January in the year of our Lord 1827.
Arthur Foster (Seal)
Attest
S. Crawford, Clerk.
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