Elbert County GaArchives Will of Robert Roebuck 30 August 1815 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Transcribed by Chandler Eavenson March 22, 2005 Will Robert Roebuck, 30 Aug 1815 The following Will appears in Elbert Co. Will Book K, pages 232-234: "In the name of God Amen I Robert Roebuck Senr, of Elbert County and State of Georgia being of perfect mind and memory but in a low state of health in body and well knowing it is appointed for all men once to die, in the first place I recomend my soul to God who gave it me hoping through the mercies of Jesus Christ and his merrits to receive it again at the day of Judgment truly sanctified and my body to be intered in a Decent Manner at the Discretion of my Executors -- and as touching my Worldly Estate Wherewith God has Blessed me, I wish to leave and bequeath in the following manner to Wit. 1st I will that all my just debts be paid to my creditors. 2nd I leave and Confirm to my daughter Betsey Goss one negro woman named Barbara and her increase and what other gifts she has received from me since her marriage. 3rd I leave and confirm to my daughter Sally Ward one negro boy named Sampson and what other gifts she has received since her marriage, on Richard Ward her husband making titles agreeable to land to the tract of land whereon I now live agreeable to our contract about said land -- 4th I leave and confirm to my daughter Anna Stowers one negro girl named Winne and what other gifts she has received-- 5th I leave and bequeath to my daughter Fanny Roebuck on her marriage one negro boy named Aron and one feather bed and furniture. 6th I leave and bequeath to my daughter Harriot Roebuck one negro girl named Nancy and one feather bed and furniture - 7th I will that the plantation whereon I now live and negroes and property thereon remain as it now is for the use of my family until the marriage of my two youngest Daughters to wit Fanny and Harriot that my son William Roebuck will take possession and keep for the use of my daughter Polly and her Child one negro woman named Sucky also one negro woman named Daphna and her increase for the sole purpose and use of said Polly and her Child and the remainder of my property to be sold and equally divided between my sons William Roebuck George Roebuck and Robert Roebuck Junr upon paying to John Carson one hundred and fifty dollars when the amount of said sale is collected-- And I do hereby appoint and constitute my sons William Roebuck George Roebuck and Robert Roebuck Junr and Robert Barker my sole Executors of this my Last Will and testament Revoking disanulling all other Wills or testament heretofore made by me in Witness Whereof I have set my hand and Seale this 30th day August 1815. Robert Roebuck (LS) Signed Sealed and acknowledged in presence of us Test James Haley Haley Butler Jno Cunningham" Georgia, Elbert County. Personally came into Court Haley Butler and John Cunningham two of the subscribers witness to the above written Will and being sworn saith that they saw the above written instrument signed by the express direction of Robert Roebuck as his last Will and testament and that he was then of sound and dispossing mind and that they signed the same as Witnesses in his presence and that they also saw James Haley subscribe his name to the same as a witness in his presence Sworn to and subscribed this 6th day of November 1815 Haley Butler (LS) Jno Cunningham (LS) The Executors quallified and letters testamentory etc granted. Recorded the 20th November 1815. [Submitter's notes: Robert Roebuck was born in Orange Co., VA in 1754, lived in Culpeper and Madison Cos., VA where he was a neighbor to and associated with members of the Germanna colonies, some of whom were Broyles, Utz, Wayland and Wilhoit. He served as a Major in the Rev. War in VA. He and wife Sarah moved to Elbert Co. ca 1801, belonged to Van's Creek Baptist Church and he served as a representative from Elbert Co.to the Georgia House of Representatives. Details of his and the Roebuck ancestry and descendants can be found in the book "The Roebucks of Virginia" by Sylvia Owen Garner, pub. 1979 by Gateway Press.] Submitted by: Chandler Eavenson