Jackson-Butts County GaArchives News.....Administrator's Sale-[John Williamson estate] November 16, 1854
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Southern Banner-Nov. 1854-Athens, GA November 16, 1854

“Southern Banner”-Athens, GA, Nov. 16, 1854--John Williamson estate: 

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
On the first Tuesday in January, 1855

By an order of the Court of Ordinary
of Jackson county, Georgia, will be sold
to the highest bidder, before the Court House
door at Jefferson, in Jackson county, Georgia
within the legal hours of sale:

Forty-four Negroes, viz: Rodah, a woman 55
years old; Mary, a woman 40 years old; Tilda,
a woman 42 years old; Miles, a man 40 years old;
Biddy 36 years old; Tarah 33 years old, Sanford
30 years old, Giles 26 years old, Anderson 20
years old, Claiborn 18 years old, Harry, a boy
seventeen years old, Matthew seventeen years
old, Green seventeen years old, Prince fourteen
years old, Jesse fourteen years old, Elviry a wo-
man 27 years old, Adaline 28 years old, Ange-
line 24 years old, Carline, 27 years old, Dinah 27
years old Nancy 23 years old, Reany fifteen
years old, Eviline fourteen years old, Fanny
twelve years old, Manday twelve years old,
Lucy twelve years old, Eveline 10 years old,
Eleana 7 years old, Elizabeth 7 years old, Sarah
7 years, Manervy ten years old, Rebecca ten years
old, Harriet 5 years old, Andy 7 years old,
Crawford 5 year olds, William 5 years old, Baily 
5 years old, Richard 4 years old, Samuel 4 years
old, Frances a girl 2 years old, Elizur 6 years
years old, Mary 4 years old, Terrel 2 years old,
Julyan 2 years old, and probably an increase
of one more by the day of sale. All sold as the
property of John Williamson, late of Jackson
county, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors of said deceased.

Terms on the day.
WINEY WILLIAMSON, Admr”x.
HOSEA C GIDDENS,       }
MICAJAH WILLIAMSON } Adm’rs
Nov. 16--tds


Additional Comments:

Additional comments:

John Williamson died October 25, 1849. A will was presented
and immediately contested by older sons and sons-in-law. The
will was invalidated in Jackson Co. Superior Court, and then was
appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court, where the decision was 
sustained-October Term 1853. The administrators above were named.
Land and slave sales took place in early 1855, after numerous legal
wranglings. Ultimately, distributions were decided by a panel of
arbiters, after a Court of Equity failed to satisfy parties, and
were made in late 1857 and early 1858.

John Williamson had completed a second mill in February 1849.
It appears that he ran the mills, while bachelor son, Micajah(Mike)
controled the "plantation". This nearly ten years of legal actions
created a ton of paper work. Fortunately, hundreds of the estate
papers have been preserved at the Hargrett Library-UGA Athens
Certain slaves are named in various depositions regarding their
distribution among legatees, but no plantation records have yet 
been found. The depositions of Dr. Crawford W. Long, and that
of John Williamson's oldest nephew, John W. Moon, are found
on this site, as well as wills, cemetery photos, and a summary of
the family, "Williamson Kin".


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