Georgia: Elbert County: Last Will and Testament of Thomas Bullard 12 April 1823 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: Dawn Brasfield d.brasfield@worldnet.att.net ==================================================================== Will of Thomas Bullard from Microfilm 3104, Washington Memorial Library, Macon, GA., Pgs. 157-158 Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Bullard Sr. of the County of Elbert & State of Georgia being low in health but of Sound Mind & Memory do make this my last will & testament viz, to my wife Ann Bullard I give & bequeath for during her natural life the tract of land I now live on containing one hundred & sixty three acres the same more or less the household & kitchen furniture with a sufficient quanty of corn & meat & likewise a sufficiency of Plantation tools to answer her purpose with George & old Lucy one horse such as she may choose two cows & calves 1 sow & pigs To Elizabeth Dye 1 Tract of land containing one hundred acres be the same more or less bounded by land I now live on living(?) on the south side of Falling Creek beginning at a turkey (?) corner on said creek thence up a branch to the fishdam road to a post oak corner thence up said road to Burrel Dyes line thence N84 E12 12 links to post oak then N6 W post oak then to Edwards line then N59 E a short distance to a post oak thence S 4? East to beginning to Allen Bullards I have given four hundred dollars Elizabeth Dye three hundred & twenty Temperance Woodley three hundred & fifty dollars to Taply Bullard Ninety dollars which I lent him which sum I Relinquish to Ann Bullard the widow of Taply Bullard for her I have of (?) estate I will my Executor to sell Charles, Young, Lucy & Fanny with the remaining part of horses, cattle sheep, hogs & waggon & gear & divide it equally between Allan Bullard Sarah Murphy Temperance Woodly Elizabeth Dye Delilah Cooks children Nancy Butlers children & Taply Bullards children & deduct what I have before given to Allen Bullard Elizabeth Dye Temperance Woodley & at the decease of my wife Ann Bullard to sell the real & personal estate & stock & soforth & divide it as above directed I do hereby constitute & appoint Shelton White to Execute this my last Will & Testament given under my hand & seal this 12th of April 1823 David Hudson Senr. Thomas (JB) Bullard (Seal) D. Hudson Jr. (his mark) James O Clark Codisil I have given to Willy Cooks & (?) Cook seventy five dollars which is to be deducted out of their part which is left to Delilah Cook April 12, 1823 David Hudson Senr. Thomas (JB) Bullard (Seal) D. Hudson Jr. (his mark) James O. Clark Georgia Elbert County Court of Ordinary May Term 1823 Personally appeared in open court David Hudson, Senr. and David Hudson, Jr. two of the suscribing witnesses to the written instrument of writing and being duly sworn saith that they were present and saw Thomas Bullard sign seal and acknowledge the same as his last will and testament and that they together with James O Clark suscribed their names as witnesses to the same all in the presence of each other and in the presence of the said testator and at his request and that the said testator was of sound mind and memory at eh time he executed the same sworn in court this 5th of May 1823 Test Job Weston C.C.O. David Hudson Senr. Whereupon it was ordered D Hudson Jr. to be recorded Recorded 9th May 1823 By Job Weston C.C.O.