Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....Matthews, Rev. Edmund July 20, 1827
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Source: Inventories & Appraisements Vol. D Pgs. 166 & 167
Written: July 20, 1827

	In the name of Almighty God, and by his divine permission I Edmund 
Matthews of the State of Georgia this 20th day of July 1827 do make this my 
last Will and testament & hereby publish and declare it as follows.  First, I 
direct that all my legal debts be paid.  I say emphatically legal debts.  I 
will and order also that my property real & personal shall be kept together 
and worked as during my life time, unless it becomes unproductive.  Then I 
desire that is shall be disposed of at public auction, the proceeds of which 
to be laid out in the purchase of Government or Chartered Bank Stock.  The 
Interest thereof to be applied to the maintenance of my family.  On the day of 
Marriage or arrival at age of my Daughter Anne Elizabeth, I will and bequeath 
one part or moiety[?] of my estate, or of Government or Bank Stock, with a 
positive injunction that her moiety or portion be secured or settled or her by 
marriage settlement by my Executors so that she may not be answerable for her 
Husbands debts.  To my Sons Edmund Matthews and George Matthews on their 
arrival at mature age, I will and bequeath to each a part or moiety of my 
Estate equal to that of their Sister aforesaid.  To my beloved wife Jane 
Elizabeth Matthews I will and bequeath a part or moiety of my said estate 
equal to that of my children aforesaid.  To my daughter Jane Margaret 
Matthews, I will & bequeath of my aforesaid Estate an equal part or moiety the 
same attention being paid to securing her moiety or portion as is required of 
my Executors on the part of my other Daughter above named.  To my unnatural 
Son Joshua Ward Matthews I will & bequeath twenty Dollars in observance to a 
requisition of the Law, he being unworthy of account[?], having already 
received and dissipated his portion of my Estate.  I further will & desire the 
any sum received as indemnity for Spoliations by the British Government, shall 
be laid out in the purchase of Government or Bank Stock, and that the 
aforesaid Legatees viz: Jane Elizabeth Matthews, (my beloved wife) Ann 
Elizabeth Matthews, Edmund Matthews, Geo Matthews, Jane Margaret Matthews (my 
children) shall be entitled to an equal moiety (each) of this said Stock, 
subject each to the same restrictions, as heretofore required.  Should either 
of the Children die, before the attainment of legal age or marriage of the 
females, then and in such case the moiety of the deceased shall be divided 
equally among the surviving Children.  To my future issue, the fruit of my own 
body, by my wife aforesaid, I will & bequeath an equal moiety or portion with 
the rest of my children of the real & personal Estate and the anticipated 
indemnity for Spoliations by the British Government.  To Joshua Ward Matthews 
I will not a Cent than the twenty dollars already expressed and bequeathed to 
him in this my last Will & Testament.  And do hereby constitute and appoint my 
Dear Wife Jane Elizabeth Matthews Executrix to her widowhood only with my 
Daughter Ann Elizabeth, my Son George, Mr. Samuel Wright and my friend Allen 
B. Powell Executrices and Executors to this my last Will & Testament.
	Witness my hand & Seal this 20th day July 1827

Edmund Matthews

Witness Jas. H. Giekie, Thos. H. Armstrong, Duncan Fort.

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