Habersham County GaArchives Wills.....Martin, Elizabeth March 27, 1832
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Anna Jean Gaissert ajeang@bellsouth.net March 15, 2005, 10:00 am

Source: Habersham Court Records
Written: March 27, 1832

ELIZABETH MARTIN’S WILL   (MARCH, 29TH, 1832)

(AREAS IN DOUBT DUE TO HANDWRITING OR POOR COPY INDICATED BY UNDERSORING AND 
AND QUESTION SYMBOL.)

GEORGIA
HABERSHAM COUNTY

		KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE TRUTHS THAT I ELIZABETH MARTIN OF THE 
COUNTY AND STATE AFFORSAID AT THIS TIME OF SOUND MIND AND MEMORY THOU OF FEBLE 
AND PRECARIOUS HEALTH AND UNINFLUENCED BY ANY MOTIVE BUT TO DO JUSTICE TO THE 
PARTIES INTERESTED AND BEING FULLY AWARE OF THE GREAT UNCERTAINTY OF HUMAN 
LIFE, DO ORDAIN THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.  FIRST I RESIGN MY SOUL UNTO 
GOD WHO GAVE IT AND MY BODY TO THE DUST FROM WHENCE IT CAME.  SECOND AS MY 
WELL BELOVED ELDEST SON ALAN V. MARTIN HAS ALREADY RECEIVED HIS PART OF MONEY 
INTENDED BY ME FOR HIM, GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO SAID ALAN V. MARTIN ONE COW AND 
CALF – I DO ALSO GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SECOND SON PHILLIP MARTIN ONE 
HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF FRANKLIN AND STATE 
AFFORSAID ON THE WATERS OF BROAD RIVER ADJOINING TO JAMES MARTIN SON AND 
OTHERS AND ONE PORTION IN THE 8TH DISTRICT OF HALL COUNTY AND STATE AFFORSAID 
CONTAINING 83 ACRES KNOWN BY NO.50 TOGETHER WITH ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN CASH.  
I ALSO GIVE UNTO WILLIAM T___Y(?) THE CHILD OF MY DECEASED DAUGHTER CHARLOTTE 
TEN DOLLARS AND AFTER PAYING MY LAST DEBTS I GIVE UNTO MY THREE YOUNGEST SONS, 
JAMES V. MARTIN, JOHN W. MARTIN & WM T. MARTIN ALL THE REST OF MY MONEY TO BE 
EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONGST THEM WHEN COLLECTED AFTER TAKING  OUT TWENTY DOLLARS 
FOR MY GRANDCHILD GEORGE H. MARTIN SON OF PHILLIP MARTIN WHICH I GIVE TO THE 
SAID GEORGE H. MARTIN AND TWENTY DOLLARS WHICH I GIVE UNTO MY GRANDCHILDREN 
JAMES V. MARTIN, JOHN MARTIN & WM MARTIN SONS OF ALAN V. MARTIN TO BE EQUALLY 
DIVIDED BETWEEN THE THREE AND TO MY TWO YOUNGEST SONS JOHN W. MARTIN AND WM T. 
MARTIN I GIVE AND BEQUEATH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ACRES OF LAND LYING IN THE 
COUNTY OF HABERSHAM AND HALL AND STATE AFFORSAID ON THE WATERS OF HUDSON RIVER 
AJOINING BUSH AND OTHERS IN THE COUNTY OF FRANKLIN AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY 
TOGETHER WITH ALL AND REGULAR THE RIGHTS NUMBERS AND APPOINTING.   AND LASTLY 
TO MY SON PHILLIP MARTIN ONE FEATHER BED AND FURNITURE AND ONE SIDE SADDLE THE 
REST TO BE EQUALLY SHARED AMONG MY YOUNGEST SONS JAMES V. JOHN W. AND WM T. 
MARTIN EQUALLY – AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRING THIS MY LAST WILL AND 
TESTAMENT INTO EFFECT I HEREBY APPOINT MY SON PILLIP MARTIN MY EXECUTOR IN 
TESTEMONY WHERE OF I HAVE HERE INTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL
THIS 29TH MARCH 1832
SINGED IN PRESENCE OF
DAVID ALLAN					
JOHN G.   (?)					ELIZABETH		MARTIN
MARY BAKER


GEORGIA
HABERSHAM COUNTY

COURT OF ORDINARY  JULY  ________(?)  1832
PERSONALLY CAME IN OPEN COURT DAVID ALLAN WHO BEING DULY SWORN ___? THAT__  ___
(?) ELIZABETH MARTIN ASSIGN THIS FORGOING FOR THE PURPOSE THERIN MENTIONED  
THAT HIMSELF,   J D. TARNEL(?) & MARY BAKER AGAIN THIS SAME AS  ______________ 
MATTER FOR THGT  HE ALSO SIGNED THE SAME AS A WRITING SWORE TO IN COURT  
								DAVID ALAN
J. D. CHASTAIN  C.C.O.


I DO SOLOMLY SWARE THAT THIS WRITING CONCOUSES THIS THE ___(?) AND LAST WILL 
OF ELIZABETH MARTIN  DCED SO FAR AS I KNOW OR BELIEVE AND THAT I WILL WELL AND 
TRULY _____ ____  BY PAYING FIRST HUNDETH AND THEN THE LEGITEES CONCLUDED IN 
AND WILL AN FORWARDING HER GOODWILL  _____(?)  WILL ___  __ THE  ____ CHARGES  
M  AND THAT I WILL MAKE A TRUE AND PERFECT TESTIMONY(?)  OF ALL  ___   GOODS 
AND CHATTLE.
SO HELP ME GOD				PHILIP MARTIN
 
___ WAS TO  ___ COURT  JULY  __ 1832
J. D. CHASTAIN  CLK

TRANSCRIBED TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY  3-13-2005
ANNA JEAN GAISSERT  (ELIZABETH MARTIN IS MY THRID GREAT-GRANDMOTHER)


Additional Comments:
Transcribed by Anna Jean Gaissert (Elizabeth Martin's third Great 
Granddaughter)

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