JACKSON COUNTY, GA - WILL   Borders, Stephen 1839
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STEPHEN BORDERS. Book A, page 227

"Georgia
Jackson County

Knowing that it is appointed for all men to
Die I Stephen S.. Borders of the County &
State aforesaid being of Sound & Disposing
Mind & Memory & Wishing to Dispose of the
Property it has Pleased God to bless me with
do make this my Last Will & Testament in
maner and form following:

Item 1st  I give and bequeath to my Farther
my negro girl Jane about one year old I give
to my Mother my negroe woman Mary During her
life

Item 2nd I give and bequeath to my Brother
Enoch H. Borders my negroe Boy Bill & my
negroe girl Mila

Item 3rd  I give & bequeath to my Sister Ann
my negroe girl Peg upon her Paying to my
Executor hereinafter named three Hundred
Dollars

Item 4th  I give & bequeath to my Sister
Lucinda my negro Boy Ben

Item 5th  I give & bequeath to my Sister
Matilda my negro Boy Levi

Item 6th  I give & Bequeath to my brother
Michael Two Hundred Dollars

Item 7th  I give and bequeath to my brother
John Two Hundred Dollars

Item 8th  I give and bequeath to my Sister
Polly one Hundred & fifty Dollars

Item 9th  I give & bequeath to my Sister
Malinda one Hundred Dollars

Item 10th  I give & bequeath to my nephew
Stephen Thornton one Hundred Dollars to be
Retained in the hands of my Executor & put
at Interest untill he arrives at age

Item 11th  It is my Will & Desire that my
Executor Collect my Effects & Pay of my
Debts & the Monied Legacies herein named out
of the first Money that comes into his hands

Item 12th  It is my Desire that my Executor
Dispose of my Rail Road Stock to the Best
Advantage Item

13th  all the Remainder of my Estate both
Real and Personal not herein Specially
bequeathed I wish my Executor to Sell on
Twelve months Credit with approved Security
& the money Raised per? the Sale of my
Property after paying the monied Legacies to
be Eqally Divided among the Legatees herein
named Except my nephew Stephen Thornton

Item 14th  I wish my body to be buried in a
Decent & Christian Like maner and Two Toom
Stones and a house out Soapstone covered
over

Item 15th  and Lastly I hereby Constitute my
Brother Enoch H. Borders Executor to Carry
into Effect this my Last Will & Testament
hereby Revoking all former Wills Which I may
have made

In Testamony Whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & Seal this 9th Day of January 1839
Stephen S. Borders (seal)
Signed Sealed and acknowleged in the Presents of
James Hargrave
Eli Shankle
Hardy Minish"

(probate below will - 4 March 1839)