Elbert County GaArchives Wills.....Higginbotham , Benjamin  May 20, 1809
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Source: Elbert Co., Ga Will Book 1809-1812, Pages 94-96
Written: May 20, 1809
Recorded: October 13, 1810

Will of Benjamin Higginbotham,[Jr.], written May 20 1809
Elbert Co., GA Will Book 1809-1812, pages 94-96 

"In the name of God Amen, I Benjamin Higginbotham of Elbert County 
and State of Georgia being in sound mind and memory thank be to God
for the same and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to 
die I have made and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner
and form as follows Vizt: Imprimis My will and desire is that all my 
just and lawfull debts be first paid. Item I give to my daughter 
Sarah one negro girl named Daufney one feather bed and furniture one 
cow and calf one sow and pigs which she is now possessed with and one
horse kind to be worth seventy dollars for her to receive after my 
decease. Item I give to my daughter Anny one negro girl named Milley 
one feather bed and furniture one cow and calf one sow and pigs and 
one horse kind worth seventy dollars. Item I give to my daughter 
Elizabeth one negro girl named Lethy one feather bed and furniture 
one cow and calf one sow and pigs which she is now possessed with 
and one horse kind to be worth seventy dollars. Item I give to my 
son Benjamin Graves one negro named Daniel one cow and calf one sow 
and pigs one feather bed and furniture and one mare valued to seventy
dollars which he is now possessed with and nothing else but the mare. 
Item I give to my son Peter one negro boy named Jacob one feather bed
and furniture one cow and calf one sow and pigs one horse kind worth 
seventy dollars Item I give to my daughter Mary one negro girl named 
Rhody one feather bed and furniture one cow and calf one sow and pigs 
one horse kind worth seventy dollars one saddle and bridle to be worth
twenty dollars and one hundred dollars cash. Item I give to my son 
Larkin one negro named Lindsay one feather bed and furniture one cow 
and calf one sow and pigs one horse kind worth seventy dollars and one
hundred dollars cash to be raised out of my estate and the balance of 
my estate my desire is to be equally divided between the whole of my 
children. I constitute and appoint my son Benjamin Graves Higginbotham
and John Upshaw Junior my Executors of this my last Will and Testament
disanuling and revoking all other Wills and Testaments by me made in 
witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentyeth 
day of May one thousand eight hundred and nine. 
                                    Benjamin Higginbotham   (Seal) 
Signed in the presence of 
Jacob Higginbotham, Sr. 
Francis Satterwhite
John Upshaw 
Leroy Upshaw" 

"Georgia Elbert County) Court of Ordinary September term 1810 Jacob 
Higginbotham and Francis Satterwhite two of the subscribing witnesses
to the within Will came into open court and being duly sworn saith that
they saw the within named testator sign, seal and acknowledge the 
within instrument of writing to be his Last Will and Testament and that
they together with John Upshaw Senior did in the presence of each other
and in the presence of the testator and at his request assign their 
names to the same as witnesses and that the testator at that time 
appeared to be of sound memory and disposing mind. Sworn in court 
this 3rd of September 1810. 
                                    Francis Satterwhite 
                                    Jacob Higginbotham Senior 
Court of Ordinary September term 1810.
The last Will and Testament of Benjamin Higginbotham deceased being
presented to court was proved and ordered to be recorded. Sworn to 
in open court. A. Pope, C. C. O. 
Recorded this 13th day October 1810."

[Additional information: The above Benjamin Higginbotham was the 
son of Benjamin Higginbotham and Elizabeth Graves who moved from 
Amherst Co., VA to Wilkes Co., later Elbert, ca 1784-5. Benjamin,
the testator above, was married on 21 Jan 1782 in Amherst Co., VA
to Mary Gatewood, daughter of Larkin Gatewood and Catherine Penn, 
and was a Revolutionary Soldier from Amherst Co., VA.]

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