Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....Russell, John January 18, 1811
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Source: Inventories & Appraisements Vol. D Pg. 16
Written: January 18, 1811

Bahama Islands    }
New Providence  }	In the name of God Amen!  I John Russell of the Island 
of Saint Salvador Esquire do make publish and declare this to be my last will 
and testament.  I give devise and bequeath all the Property which I may die 
possessed of both real and personal in then[?] Islands the state of Georgia 
and elsewhere unto my wife Mary Russell and my children Eliza Russell, James 
Hunter Russell, William Edward Russell, Richard Henry Russell, Mary Emelia Ann 
Russell and to each and every other child hereinafter to be born to me by my 
said wife to hold to them my said wife and children to the survivors and 
survives them in equal portions share and share alike, subject to the 
discretions, limitations, and restrictions hereinafter mentioned that is to 
say I direct my said Estate to be kept together and managed to the best 
advantage for the benefit and support of all the said legatees and devised 
under the discretion of my Executrix and Executors hereinafter named until my 
youngest surviving child shall attain the age of twenty one years if a male 
and if a female eighteen years when a final and equal division of the same 
shall be made and take place among the survivors and in the event of the 
marriage of any or either of my said children during the minority[?] of my 
youngest surviving child or of any other event occuring which may render 
[illegible] or [illegible] a settlement of my Estate as regards the Interest 
of any of my said children who shall become of age I do in such case authorize 
and empower my Executrix and Executors if they shall deem it prudent to do so 
to pay over or surrender to each child or children the share or proportion of 
my Estate to which he she or they may be entitled to be estimated in a 
reasonable fair way and to be made in such manner under such circumstances and 
at such time as may least effect the remaining property and interests of the 
other legatees and devices then living.  And I delcar it to be my will that in 
the event of any of my children dying leaving lawful issue before a division 
of my Estate shall be made that the share or Interest of such child or 
children shall [illegible] to such issue but otherwise that the sum shall go
[?] and belong to the surviving Legatees and Devices and I do nominate and 
appoint my said wife Executrix and son James Hunter Russell and Robert Leach
[?] of the State of Georgia Executors of this my last will and Testament 
hereby revoking and declaring void all others by me at any time heretofore 
made.  In witness whereof I the said John Russell have set my hand and seal 
this eighteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight 
Hundred & Eleven.

John Russell  {LS}

Signed sealed published and declared by the said John Russell the Testator as 
and for his last will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request 
and in his presence and in the presence of each other hereunto subscribed our 
names as witnesses.

Jno. Armstrong
David B. Hill[?]
J.T. Thompson

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