Hancock County GaArchives Wills.....Dowdle, James December 4, 1795
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Source: Wills And Administration Of Estates, 1794-1958  Inferior Court Minutes, 1794-1903
Written: December 4, 1795
Recorded: April 22, 1796

WILL OF JAMES DOWDLE

Wills and administration of estates, 1794-1958
Inferior Court Minutes, 1794-1903 

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I JAMES DOWDLE OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA AND THE COUNTY 
OF HANCOCK BEING SICK AND IN A LOW STATE OF BODY, BUT OF PERFECT MIND AND 
MEMORY, THANKS BE TO ALMIGHTY GOD  - AND CALLING TO MIND THE MORTALITY OF THE 
BODY, I DO HEREBY RECCOMEND MY SOUL TO GOD WHO GAVE it  AND MY BODY TO THE 
EARTH FROM WHENCE IT WAS TAKEN, TO BE DECENTLY BURIED AT THE DESCRETION OF MY 
FRIENDS AND AS TO WHAT WORLDLY GOODS IT HAS PLEASED GOD TO BLESS ME WITH I 
DEPOSE OF IN MANNER AND FORM FOLLOWING (TO WIT) FIRST OF ALL I GIVE AND 
BEQUEATH TO MY WELL BELOVED WIFE PRUDENCE DOWDLE OF ALL THAT PROPERTY OF EVERY 
KIND WHICH I GOT WITH HER WHEN I MARRIED HER, THAT IS YET REMAINING AND TO BE 
FOUND, I ALSO GIVE TO HER MY SORREL HORSE AND NEW _____ BRIDLE. I ALSO GIVE 
HER ONE COW WHICH SHALL BE HER CHOICE OUT OF ALL THAT I HAVE AND ALSO A DECENT 
RIDING SADDLE . I ALSO GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED DAUGHTER JEAN ONE COW. 
IT IS ALSO MY WILL THAT ALL THE REMAINING PART OF MY PROPERTY, LAND TENEMENTS, 
GOODS, AND CHATTLES BE SOLD AND IN EQUAL DIVISION BE MADE BETWEEN MY THREE 
SONS (TO WIT) BARTHOLOMEW JOHNSON JOHN, AND ROBERT AND MY THREE DAUGHTERS (TO 
MARY, REBEKAH, AND SARAH EXCEPT TEN POUNDS WHICH I WISH MY SON JOHN TO GO GET 
IN SCHOOLING AS SOON AS IS CONVENIENT OUT OF THE WHOLE, AND I HEREBY 
CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT MY TRUSTY AND BELOVED SON BARTOLOMEW JOHNSON DOWDLE 
TRUSTY FRIEND WILLIAM GREER TO BE SOLE EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND 
TESTAMENT. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND AFFIXED MY SEAL 
THIS FORTH DAY OF DECEMBER ONE THOUSNAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NIENTY FIVE.
INTERLINED BEFORE SIGNING
 JAMES DOWDLE
WITNESS:
WILLIAM BUTTER
VALENTINE WARREN       
MOURNING GARRETT

Account of sale of estate of JAMES DOWDLE late deceased Oct. 27, 1796 Buyers: 

BART JOHNSON 
JOSEPH BARKSDALE 
BENJAMIN GILBERT 
THOMAS DICKINSON 
EDWARD WOODHAM 
JOEL DICKINSON 
JAMES HARVEY 
WELBORN DICKINSON 
JONATHAN MOORE 
DAVID SPHERES 
JAMES WALLER 
JAMES HALLER 
JOHN GREER 
STEPHEN NOBLES 
JOSEPH HENRY 
JONATHAN MOORE 
HENRY GARRETT 
GEORGE WEST 
JOHN COLBERT 
EDMUND BUTLER 
JEREMIAH BELL 
THOMAS MELVIN 
EPHRAIM SAMMONS 
JOSHUA COLVER 
WILLIAM KILGORE 
MICHL GILBERT 
JAMES WALLER 
THOMAS GREENE 
JAMES TURNER 
BENJAMIN PEARCE 
THOMAS CAVENER 
NATHAN SMITH 
SOLOMON LANGSTON 
STEPHEN WALLER 
THOMAS MELVIN 
JESSE JOHNSON 
ROBERT KELLY 
ROBERT SIMMS 
JONATHAN MOORE 
ISAAC ELLIS 
WILLIAM GILES 
SARAH RAYFIELDS 
JONATHAN BLACK 
JOHN WEEKS 
JAMES HENRY 
JAMES McGEE 
JOSHUA ELLIS 
WILLIAM OWLSLEY 
RISDON MOORE 
B. J. DOWDLE  
JOHN CALDWELL 
JOHN DOWDLE 
JOHN DICKINSON 
WILLIAM GREER 
DRURY ROGERS 
B. J. DOWDLE  
JOSHUA KENNY 
WILLIAM KILGORE 

Accounts returned to office by Exrs. of JAS. DOWDLE Sept. 2, 1797
_______LACY. 
Doctor RICHARD H. TAYLOR
JOHN DOWDLE 



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