Georgia: Baldwin County: Last Will & Testament of James Barrow 20 March 1827 ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Laura Stotler Lstotler@aol.com *********************************************************************** Will: James Barrow, 1828, Baldwin County, GA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Laura Stotler Lstotler@aol.com> Last Will and Testament of James Barrow, Baldwin County, GA Court of Ordinary, Will Book, Pg 272 In the name of God! Amen, I James Barrow of the county of Baldwin and State of Georgia being in my usual state of health both of body and mind; having long since resigned all my spiritual interests to the mercy of God in Christ Jesus under whose heavenly direction I hereby dispose of all that he has given me in this World in the following manner- As soon after my death as convenient I desire my body to be buried at Beulah's by the side of my last wife (the mother of my children) all my just debts immediately paid and all my perishable property (or all except my land, negroes and what is deposited in my libre [library], sold on a suitable credit and the proceeds put on interest and applied to the future maintenance and education of my children as my Executors may judge best. My negroes I wish hired out annually at the discretion of my Executors and not set up to the highest bidder, and each family kept together as near as possible. My old negroes I desire should be taken particular care of especially my faithful old Stuard Flander and his wife Hago. To Flander I give all my wearing clothes. Let them live where they please/ they will be a blessing to any family that will do as I have done by them, at my expense. My cleared land on the east side of the river may be rented annually as long as it can be kept fenced in its present order, I wish now cleared and as little timber cut as possible, and not from a tree to a bush cut within half a mile of my Beulah House. To my son David I give my libre [library] and all my books because I wish them not scattered, but let his sister have the use of the books, and to my Daughter Patience I give my large Looking Glass, now deposited and to be kept in my library house, with my silver spoons and some glassware therein, and what else she may choose to make her legacy equal to her brother and all the rest of my estate, I wish divided equally between my two children David and Patience when David is twenty one years old and both have gotten their education if they live, and if one dies without heir the other will take the whole as I desire- My son David I desire should be kept at school in this state until he acquires as good an education as it will afford; and then if he and my Executors can agree let him be sent to the Columbian College near the City of Washington if that is in repute, or else to some other to complete his Education, if his means will afford it.- My Daughter Patience I desire my near and dear neighbor Mrs. Thomas Stubbs will take and bring her up as her own child at the expense of my estate, and what Mrs. Stubbs thinks proper she may reserve for the child's use, at the sale of my property. I loan to my nephew Jacob Barrow, to occupy himself but not subject to his debts or to dispose of in any other way, my little field two miles up the west side of the Occonee River from Milledgeville, with the small woods adjoining to it, to the road to Carter's Mills, and to cut no other timber or suffer it to be cut by others, and his choice of my houses in Milledgeville with half the lot, and the use of my libre [library] on being accountable for all the books, to which my children are to have accept, and loan none otherwise, where he is to keep a regular account of all that concerned my family or estate and account to my other Executors who will account with him to the court, this loan to continue until the first of my children shall marry or come of age and then delivered to them in good order.- Rachel and her family consisting of Rachel, Simon, Charles, Dinah, Isaac, Saressy, Nancy, Josiah and Sam, I wish delivered to Mrs. Pasty Lewis as soon as my Executors can properly divest my business and get her receipt according to the will of her late aunt Mrs. Nancy Barrow now on record in Baldwin County. Last of all I appoint my special friends Peter Stubbs, Thomas Stubbs, William Sanford and Jacob Barrow my Executors to execute this my last will and testament, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentieth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. James Barrow (Seal) My clumsy handwriting is so well known in Baldwin County that I deem it unnecessary To call any further evidence. James Barrow. But since for fear of accidents have requested my Friends to witness as follows: B.P. Stubbs } W.C. Crenshaw } Test. Thos. Hill } Georgia } County of Ordinary March Term 1928 Baldwin County } Personally appeared in open court Baradell P. Stubbs one of the subserving witnesses to the within will who after being duly sworn, saith, that the within named Testator acknowledged and published the within instrument as his last will and Testament, that he was of sound mind and memory and that he did is freely so far as he knows, and this deponent further saith that he saw William C. Crenshaw and Thomas Hill subscribe their names as witnesses thereto. Sworn to in Open Court this 10th day of March 1928. B. P. Stubbs Rho A Green CCO Recorded 10th March 1828 Rho A Green CCO ________________________________________________________________________ Transcribed by Laura Stotler from copy provided by Camille Killens August 17, 2003