Butts-Jackson County GaArchives Wills.....Williamson Sr., John 1831 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Larry Knowles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 September 8, 2004, 12:55 am Source: Butts County Wills-adminstration Of Estates, 1826-1841 Written: 1831 Recorded: November 7 1831 WILL OF JOHN WILLIAMSON In the name of God Amen. I John Williamson Sen'r a citizen of Butts County Georgia being sensible from my advanced age of the near approach of that mortality to which all human beings are subject but at the same time in usual health and sound in mind and memory do declare this my last will and testament revoking all others. I command my soul to God who gave it relying on his clemency for eternal salvation and my body to its mother earth to be decently interred at the discretion of my executors. As touching my temporal estate it is my will that it be distributed in the following manner (to wit:) 1st. I give and bequeath to my beloved children (to wit:) Sally Moon, Polly McCluskey, William Williamson, Jinny (?) Doss, Adam Williamson and Elizabeth Powers one dollar each as their entire portion of my estate. 2nd. I give and bequeath to my beloved grandson Nathan Williamson two lots of land Nos. two hundred & thirty two and two hundred and fifty in the eighth district and one other lot of land No. two hundred and fifty in the first district all originally of Henry County but now Butts County and two Negro boys one named Jack and the other Ben and a negro woman by the name of Rachel, and her increase. 3rd. I give and bequeath to my beloved son John Williamson all the residue of my property both real and personal. 4th. I constitute and appoint my beloved son John Williamson and my beloved grandson Nathan Williamson executors to this my last will and testament who are charged with its faithful execution after my death and not until then. John X Williamson (His Mark) Signed and sealed in presence of: John Lofton, William Harrison, Gustavus Hendrick ______________________________________________ You swear that you saw John Williamson, Sen. sign, seal, publish and deliver this writng, to be and contain his last will and testament; that at the time thereof he was of sound, disposing mind and memory, and that he did it freely without compulsion, and that each of you signed the same as witnesses in the presence of the testator, and in the presence of each other- -so help you God. Attested: John Lofton, Wm. Harrison, Gustavus Hendrick Sworn and subscribed in open Court, this 7th November, 1831-John McCord, c.c.o. ____________________________________________________________________ Recorded Butts County Wills - Administration of Estates 1826 - 1841, p 157 - 158. Note written in book by Probate Judge, Luther Washington, in 1975[John Williamson d. 10-9-1831 served in Rev. War with Virginia troops. Taken from Grave monument Williamson Knowles family cemetery] Additional Comments: John Williamson Sr. was the patriarch of many of the early Jackson Co. Williamson families. He purchased 1150 acres along Curry Creek/Oconee River when it was part of Franklin Co. He evidently moved to the area after Jackson Co. was formed in 1796. He or son John Jr. established a small mill along Curry or Little Curry Creek. A weaver and dyer by trade, John's family prospered, with good land and a growing number of slaves. A dispute over weaving led to an estrangment from his wife, Margaret(Lesley)Mitchell Williamson. She moved into the household of bachelor son, William Williamson. About 1826, John Williamson Sr. moved to Butts Co.(#250/8D.)to land won in the 1821 Lottery. He died there on October 9, 1831(see tombstone photo). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/wills/nwl24williams.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb