Elbert County, GA - Will of Jacob Cleveland, 1791

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WILL of JACOB CLEVELAND

Will Elbert County    }  Jacob Cleveland Will Proved In My Office 
April the   
       29, 1791                    }
May the 16th 1791   }  Record the above Will 

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Jacob Cleveland of the State of Georgia, 
Wilkes 
County, and now the County of Elbert, Being through the abundant 
Mercy and 
goodness of God though weak in body yet of a sound and perfect 
understanding 
and memory do Constitute this my Last Will and Testament and desire 
it may be 
received by all as such Imprimise I most Humbly Bequeath my Soul to 
God my 
maker beseeching His most Gracious acceptance of it through the all 
sufficient Merit and Meditations of my Most Compassionate redeemer 
Jesus 
Christ who gave Himself to be an atonement for my Sins and is able 
to save to 
the utmost all that come Unto God by Him seeing He ever Liveth to 
make 
intercession for them and Who I trust will not reject me a returning 
Penitent 
Sinner when I come to Him for Mercy in the Hope and Confidence.  I 
render up 
my Soul with Comport Humbly Beseeching the most Blessed and Glorious 
trinity 
one God most Holy most Mercifull and Gracious to Prepare Me for the 
time of 
my Dissolution and then to take Me to Himself unto that Peace and 
blest and 
Incomparrable felicity which He has prepared for all that Love and 
fear His 
Holy Name Amen. Blessed be God Imprimis I give my Body to the Earth 
from 
whence it was taken in full assurance of its resurrection.  From 
thence at 
that last Day as for my burial I desire it may be Decently without 
Pomp or 
State at the Discretion of my Dear Wife and my Executors hereafter 
named who 
I doubt now but will manage it with all requisite prudence as to my 
Worldly 
Estate I Will and Positively order that all my Debts be paid. Item-I 
give to 
my Dear and Loving Wife for term of life or widowhood this house 
wherein I 
now dwell with all the furniture and the Lands and a negro named 
Chain 
[Chany] and Tom and Aaron and all other tenements that lie about it 
and if 
the above mentioned Wench named Chain has another child after this 
date I 
give it to my daughter Elizabeth during her life and then to her 
Heirs if any 
and if she dies without an heir then for it to fall to my two 
youngest sons 
and to be equally divided between them Reuben Cleveland and Daniel 
Cleveland, 
and Item-I give unto my son Jeremiah Cleveland a bond that I have on 
John 
Slayton to be his own right and title besides and equal part of my 
Estate 
with the rest of my children and after my dear wifes Death or 
Widowhood and 
all my children raised till come of age and then what is left to be 
divided 
Equally between them all, and I do Constitute these my Dear Wife and 
Webb 
Kidd and Jeremiah Cleveland Executors of this my Last Will and 
Testament and 
trustee for my children. In witness whereof I have set my Hand and 
Seal the 
fourth Day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven 
Hundred and 
Ninety-One. 
Witnesses:
Reuben White                           Jacob Cleveland  SEAL
John White 

This Estate appraised the 9th of May 1791
P  S  D The Whole amount 250 acres of Land                352  7  10 
Wm Higginbotham, Reg'r Pro. 
May 9, 1791; Milly Cleveland, Webb Kidd and Jeremiah Cleveland, 
Excrs. of 
estate of Jacob Cleveland, dec'd. Rice Cleveland, Sec. Will Bk 1791-
1803, 
Section A, pp 2-3