Greene County GaArchives Wills.....Gresham, Archibald November 2 1822 ************************************************ 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: Ken Doggett kendoggett2000@yahoo.com October 30, 2004, 10:47 am Source: Will Book, Greensboro Probate Court Written: November 2 1822 Recorded: March 10 1823 Georgia Greene County I Archibald Gresham of the State and County aforesaid do make and ordain this my last will and Testament. I will that all my just debts be paid out of my Estate by my Executors hereinafter named, and the remainder of my Estate is to be disposed of in the following manner. viz 2ndly It is my will that my wife Nancy Gresham have the use and occupancy of my houses and plantation whereon I now live together with my household and kitchen furniture, and also a sufficiency of Farming utensils to enable her to carry out the (farm?) for and during her natural life and at her death to be divided among my children in the manner hereinafter pointed out 3rdly It is my will that the plantation whereon I now live together with all my lands adjoining the same at the death of my wife be divided into two equal parts and valued by three disinterested men chosen for that purpose having regard to quantity and quality, which when so divided I give unto my two sons, Sterling Gresham and Young Felix Gresham and their heirs forever with this provision, that the said Young Gresham have the houses and plantation by paying the said Sterling Gresham the difference in valuation if any difference there be 4thly It is my will that all my negroes and other property of every description (except that part loaned to my wife as above) be put up into seven lots equal in valuation and drawn for and distributed in the following manner. viz To my wife Nancy Gresham one equal distributive share which is to include property loaned to her in the second section. To my daughters Milly Jenkins Polly Jenkins and Nancy Veazey and my sons Sterling Gresham and Young F. Gresham each one equal share of seventh part of said property when so divided. It is further my will that in making up my personal property into lots for valuation that that part together with its increase already given to my daughters Milly Jenkins and Polly Jenkins and Nancy Veazy (sic) be brought into hotch pot* and made a part of their distributive share viz to them an equal distributive share each, including the property already given them with its increase. 5thly To my sons Sterling Gresham and Young F Gresham in trust to and for the use and support of the issue of my daughter Frances Rhodes I give the remaining seventh part of my personal property also two hundred dollars as an equivalent to her proportionable share of my lands, to be by the said Trustees applied exclusively to the support and maintenance of my said daughter Frances and her child or children, and as her child or children may arrive at lawful age or marry they are to receive from the above named Trustees one equal distributive share of the property so given in trust, always allowing my said daughter Frances to be entitled during her life to a child's part of said property and at her death the whole of the property so given in Trust shall go to and be equally divided among her children then in life or among the surviving children of her children but provided she dies leaving no lineal descendant at her death, there the property is given in Trust to revert to my other children named in this will and equally divided among them or their heirs 6thly It is my will that all that part or portion of my Estate herein divised to my daughters before named, should they die without issue, return at their decease to those of my surviving children before named or their heirs 7thly It is also my will and desire that in consequence of the last and will and Testament of James R. Jenkins deceased in which will he has left all his property both real and personal to his children Sterling Gresham Jenkins Pleasant C. Jenkins James R. Jenkins and Frances Adeline Jenkins in case that his wife should marry again, and for the above reasons I direct that all that all (sic) that portion or part of my Estate which my daughter Milly Jenkins has not yet received shall belong to her and her issue should she marry the second time, and not to those already named in their Father's will and in case she should die without further issue then and in that case all the property willed to her and then coming from my Estate shall at her decease belong to her children as before named. 8thly It is my will and desire that my Executors shall after my decease furnish out of my Estate for the use of Sterling Gresham Jenkins one negro girl about his own age or as near as the case will admit of, or three hundred dollars in cash to be put to interest as my Executors may think best, and in case he the said Sterling Gresham Jenkins should die before he arrives at lawful age, then and in that case the said property shall return to my children as before mentioned 9thly It is my will that after the division of my personal property as has already been pointed out the sum of two hundred dollars each be paid to my daughters Milly Jenkins Polly Jenkins and Nancy Veazy as an equivalent to their proportionable share of my lands otherwise disposed of 10thly It is also my desire and I hereby expressly direct that no part of my property be exposed to public sale but be taken at the valuation of three men chosen for that purpose if not otherwise agreed on 11thly And lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my wife Nancy Gresham Executrix and my Two Sons Sterling Gresham and Young F Gresham Executors of this my last will and Testament and Testament (sic) hereby revoking all others and satisfying and confirming this and this only as my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 2nd day of November 1822 acknowledged signed A. Gresham in presence Chas A Redd F C Heard Travis Weaver Georgia Greene County, Court of Ordinary March 1823 Personally appeared in open court Charles A Redd and Travis Weaver two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will who being duly sworn say that they saw the above named Archibald Gresham sign seal and heard him acknowledge the foregoing to be his last will and Testament and that they believed him to be of perfect sound mind and memory at the time of his so doing and that Franklin C. Heard together with themselves subscribed his name as Witness thereto in the presence of the Testator Sworn to & subscribed in Chas A Redd open court 8th March 1823 Travis Weaver Ebenezer Torrence Clk Recorded 10th March 1823 Ebenezer Torrence Additional Comments: Middle English forerunner of hodgepodge, or an array of separate items collected together. 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