Elbert County GaArchives Wills.....Kidd, Webb August 16, 1803
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Source: Will Book 1-2-3 1803-1806 Pp57, 58, 59
Written: August 16, 1803
Recorded: April 22, 1805

Will of Webb KIDD 


In the name of God Amen. I, Webb Kidd of the county of Elbert & State of 
Georgia being very sick & weak in body but of Perfect Mind Senses & Memory do 
make and constitute my last Will & Testament. But principally & first I give & 
hoping at the Resurrection I shall receive the same again in peace, and 
recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it to me & as 
touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with I do 
give & dispose of in the following manner. The Plantation House & Land whereon 
I now live with all that appertains thereunto belonging. I do give unto my 
dearly beloved wife Elizabeth Kidd to be her dowfull rite & property enduring 
of her life and widowhood and if she dies before my youngest child, Webb comes 
or rises to the years of eighteen then the Plantation House & Land not to be 
broken up until he arrive to that year of age and then separately I give him my 
youngest son his free choice to take the House, Land & plantation for his own 
or otherwise to take Dick my negro boy if he lives & I further give him out of 
my Estate a horse & saddle, the saddle to have when he calls for it & the horse 
to be put in his possession when he arrive to the above mentioned years. The 
horse and saddle to be worth one hundred dollars, together with a good bed & 
furniture & which ever he chooses, the land or Dick. If it be the land & the 
rest or Dick & the rest then thats to be his only part or claim of my 
Estate=and to my dearly beloved daughter Nancy Harper I do give a beast & 
saddle, bed & furniture with one Heifer Cow which they have in their possession 
to the amount of ninety three dollars, and to my dearly beloved daughter Polly 
Jennings I do give which they have now in their possession one tract of land & 
one bed to the amount of one hundred & twenty five dollars, and to my dearly 
beloved daughter Lucy Greenwood I do give which they have had in their 
possession one bed & with a heifer cow, beast & saddle together with cash to 
the amount of one hundred & four dollars=& to my son William Kidd I do give 
which he now has in possession one tract of land a bed & furniture, beast & 
saddle to the amount of two hundred & thirty five dollars and to my beloved 
daughter Rhody Cleaveland I do give which she now has in possession one bed & 
furniture with a beast and saddle to the amount of Eighty five dollars the 
beast to yet be delivered to her-and to my beloved son Martin Kidd I do give 
which he has now in possession one tract of land lying in Franklin County & 
State of Georgia with a horse & saddle all to the amount of three hundred & ten 
dollars-and to my beloved son John Kidd I do give one tract of land lying in 
Franklin County joining of Martins Land with a Beast and Saddle all to the 
amount of three hundred & ten dollars & if the above mentioned land is ever 
lost by other claims the damage sustained shall be equally borne by all the 
legatees that is allowing them to return back into the Estate & sharing with 
the rest And as for the balance at the decease of my wife or age of my son Webb 
my Estate to be equally divided amongst all the legatees excepting my son Webb 
& Nancy Harper & Lucy Greenwood- and what so ever is coming to be Nancys part I 
do give to her daughter Polly & her son Webb-and what so ever might be Lucys 
part I do give to their son William and daughter Polly Greenwood, and I appoint 
and ordain my son Martin and William and John Kidd my sons to be my sole 
executors of this my Last Will & Testament and I do fully empower & authorize 
them to do and act for the good of the Estate & Legatees at their discretion as 
may deem most proper giving and assisting any of the Legatees when it can be 
spared out of the Estate= and I do hereby revoke & dissnull all other wills and 
bequests ratifying and confirming this to be my Last Will & Testament in 
writing whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 16th day 
of August 1803. 

Signed in the presence of SEAL Webb Kidd 
_______ ? read? before signed 
test 
John White 
Thomas White 
Benjamin Herndon 

Registered the 22nd day of April 1805 
W. Higginbotham C.C.O. 
Will Bk 1-2-3 1803-1806 pp 57,58,59 


Additional Comments:
Webb Kidd b. 2 August 1735, married Elizabeth(Betty)White, sister of Mildred 
White, who married Jacob Cleveland. Webb & Elizabeth(Betty) White Kidd's 
daughter, Rhoda Kidd married John Cleveland, son of Jacob & Mildred (Milley) 
White Cleveland.

Rev. War Service

Virginia Publick Claims Pittsylvania Co, VA p 56 
At a court of claims held at the courthouse of Pittsylvania County the 17th day 
of May 1784 for adjusting claims for property impressed or taken for publick 
service, present William Witcher, Stephen Coleman, Reuben Payne, John Parks and 
William Ward. Webb Kidd for 325 No 1 beef for Continental Army. l4 lbs 1 
shilling 3 pence. 

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