CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA - COURT HOMESTEAD William Rowland

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Crawford County, Georgia
Transcribed by Cheryl Aultman from Original Document 
Found at Georgia Archives, Morrow, GA, August 2003

Georgia, Crawford County} To the Hon. Ordinary of said County 
The Petition of William Rowland show that he is a
citizen of said County that he is the head of a family
consisting of the following persons to wit: Himself &
wife & one child under sixteen years of age to wit
Amanda Fifteen years of age – Upon petition prays that
he may have set apart & Exempt to him as provided in
section 2040 to 2049 of the Code of Georgia of 1873 &
in acts of the General assembly amending thereof.  The
following property to wit: Fifty acres of land & five
additional acres for each of his children under the age
of sixteen years.  One farm horse or mule One Cow &
calf – Ten head of hogs & fifty dollars worth of
provisions & five dollars worth additional for each
child-Fifty bushels of Corn- one chous (sic?) and
pounds of fodder One one horse wagon one table & set of
Chairs sufficient for the use of the family & household
& kitchen furniture not to exceed one hundred & fifty –
dollars in value-Beds Bedding & common bedsheets
sufficient for the family, one loom, one spinning wheel
& two pairs of cards & one hundred pounds of leaf
cotton – Common tools of trade of himself & wife –
Equipment & arms of a Militia soldier & troopers horse
– Ordinary Cooking utensils & table crockery, Wearing
apparel of himself & family, Family Bible Religious
works & school books, Family Portraits – The Library of
a professional man in actual practice or business not
exceeding three hundred dollars in value & to be
selected by himself, One Family Sewing machine.

Your Petitioner prays that your honor will pass an
order relieving & exempting from levy and sale by & or
in hire of any process whatever the above foregoing
schedule of property & that the same may be recorded in
the Ordinary’s office of said County as required by
law. March 29, 1880                                    
William Rowland (signature)


                                                                                        Ordinary’s Office
                                                                                        Crawford County, Georgia
                                                                                                 At Chambers
                                                                                                     March 29 1880
Upon reading & considering the foregoing petition of
William Rowland it is ordered that the same be granted
as therein prayed & that the Clerk of the Court of
Ordinary do record the foregoing petition & this order
in the proper book of Record in said office Given under
my hand & seal of office the day & year above written.
                                                                                            R. D. Smith, Ordinary

Recorded
March 29 1880, V. S. Walton, C. C. Ord.