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Georgia: Wilkes County: James Mathews Will, 2 November 1822
WILL OF JAMES MATHEWS
Recorded the 23rd day of September 1828.
State of Georgia Wilkes County (?) 1822
I James Mathews of said County and State aforesaid now in usual health of Body and Strength of Mind Contemplating the Uncertainty of life - the Certainty of death and also the duty I Owe to my family and friends to make a disposition of my worldly good, which it has pleased God to bless me with,
which now I do in the following manner.
First I will all my just debt be first paid
Second I will the tract of land and all the plantation I now live on, all the stock, horses, cows, sheep, hogs and all the household and kitchen furniture I have now in possession and Jenny and her child Mariah Woffren(?) & Cearor(?), Aggy and Daniel to my wife Rebecca to have and enjoy in her full
possession during her natural life and at her death to be equally divided among my children.
Thirdly I will to my son Abraham two Negroes Mike a man and Sidney a woman, one bed and furniture
Fourthly I will to my son Jacob two Negroes Spencer and Amos and one bed and furniture
Fifthly I will to my son James two Negroes Seaborn and William both boys and one bed and furniture
Sixthly I will to my son Phillip two Negroes Jerry and Dudley and one bed and furniture
Seventhly I will to my son Isaac Newton two Negroes Henry and Creesy(?) and one bed and furniture
Eighthly I will to my sons Abraham Jacob and James in trust for my Daughters Mary Martha and Rebecca and their heirs the property hereafter described after their names or that may arise from an equal Distribution of the remains of my Estate, after my decease, with power to either of my sons to hire out said property and apply it to the Support and Maintenance of the daughter for whom the property is hired or may after by distribution be designated and also that the said trust or either of them have power to dispose of any the property that my Daughters or Daughter wish and also to buy out of any funds
arising from this property, any kind of property desired by my daughters or either of them.
Ninth I will to my daughter Mary the following Negroes Mary a woman and Caty her child and Emily a girl with all their future increase and one bed and furniture and one horse to the value of seventy five dollars
Tenth I will to my daughter Martha the following Negroes Vis, Charity a Negro woman and her four children (and all the future increase) Harriet Gilbert Micajah and Martha and one bed and furniture and one Horse the same as my daufghter Polly
Eleventh I will to my daughter Rebecca the following Negroes Miles a boy Aley (and her children and all future increase) and one bed and furniture and one horse the same as my other Daughters and a Side Saddle.
Twelfth I will the Balance of my property not disposed of be equally divided among my children
Thirteenth I will that my children receive out of the above fund three hundred dollars in cash. Excepting only those who have already received, which will be seen by referring to my Book
Fourteenth I will that my Executors pay for ten years annually to the partners of the Fishing Creek Church or to the mission board of the Georgia Association five dollars for the sole purpose of Missions and also that they pay at the same time to the Partners or board as aforesaid five dollars to promote the state of education in the Baptist Ministry
Fifteenth I will and appoint Abraham M Mathews Jacob G Mathews and James Mathews Executors of this my last will and testament.
In Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my Seal this second day of November 1822.
Signed in presence of
James Armstrong
Stovall Pool J. L. Mathews - seal
John Llack(?)
The words "and their heirs forever," was interlined by me at the request of James Mathews. James Armstrong
The words for ten years interlined before signed
In chambers 26th August 1828.
Georgia
Wilkes county
Personally came before us James Armstrong one of the subscribing witnesses to the Mathews will who being duly sworn deposith and saith that he saw the testator James Mathews Sign and Seal the same as the last will and testament and at the time of his so doing he was of sound and disposing mind and
memory, that he subscribed the same as a witness at the request of the testator and in his presence.
Sworn to before us this 26th August 1828
W. C. Allison---(?) James Armstrong
Thomas (?) Wootten (?) ---(?)
Georgia
Wilkes County
Personally appeared in Open Court Stovall Pool a subscribing Witness to the Mathews will who being duly sworn saith that James Mathews acknowledged in his presence the Mathew Instrument of Writing to be his last will and testament and at the time of his so doing he was of sound and disposing mind
and memory that he subscribed the same as a witness in his presence and at his request and that John Llack (?) subscribed the same as a witness at the same time.
Sworn to in Open Court September 1st 1828 Stovall Pool
Attest
Jno. A. Dyson ---(?)
Recorded the 23rd day of Spetember 1828
NOTE 2./ Rev. JamesJr Mathews, went from Virginia to South Carolina, and did service as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Soon after the close of the conflict he settled in Lincoln county, Georgia, where he bought a plantation, and in addition to his agricultural labors served as pastor of a Baptist church
in Burke county, a brief account of his pastorate being given in Campbell's History of the Georgia Baptists. The maiden name of his wife was Rebecca Carlton. She was born, reared and educated in old Virginia. Her father, Robert Carlton, who, with his brother, Thomas Carlton, emigrated from England to
America, settling in King and Queen county, Virginia, where he married a Miss Wafford. He fought with the colonists in their struggle for independence, and later, in 1785, migrated with his family to Georgia, becoming a pioneer settler of Wilkes county, where he spent his remaining days.
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