Columbia County:  Wills, Elmira Bowdre Receipt of Estate, 19 March 1830
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MARCH 19, 1830

The following receipt being tendered was examined & ordered to be 
recorded to wit:

Georgia}
Upson County}
Received of my guardian Simmons Crawford (who was appointed in Columbia 
County Georgia) one negroe man named Jim allotted to me in the division 
of my Father, Samuel Bowdre, decd, estate as by reference to the 
records of distribution will appear.  Also the sum of sixty nine 
dollars and fifty three cents.  Also the sum of sixty dollars for the 
hire of the boy Jim, the last year as my distribution of the sales of 
the personal estate of said deceased. Also the sum of thirty five 
dollars and seventy one cents in cash it being the amount due by the 
lot assigned to my sister Drucilla Bowdre to make my share equal to the 
average proportion that each legatee was entitled to in the negro 
property for which I hereby exonerate and acquit my said guardian from 
all liability on account of his bond given for his acts as my guardian.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth 
day of March 1830.
Elmira Bowdre (seal)
In presence of George S. Bledsoe
William Harriss