Jasper County GaArchives Deed.....Lewis Peacock - Mordica Hill September 3 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: Walter Ward http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00009.html#0002070 August 27, 2003, 10:39 pm Lot (207?)/ District 17 Written: September 3 1822 Jasper County, Georgia, Deed Book A, page 60. Source: Microfilm of the actual Jasper County, Georgia, Deed Book A. LDS microfilm #158497. State of Georgia Jasper County. Know all men by these presents that I Mordica Hill of the County and State aforesaid being of sound mind and memory and in my perfect senses and having lost my eyesight and not able to take care of myself nor my property of any kind and being disposed to live with my son in law Lewis Peacock and he having agreed to take care of me during life and I feel it my duty to give to him all that I possess both real and personal. now know ye that the said Mordica Hill as aforesaid do hereby give grant & bequeath unto the said Lewis Peacock his heirs and assigns all the real and personal property that I possess that is to say all that tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in the 17th District of original Baldwin but now Jasper County and known by part of lot No. (207?) in the Dist. aforesaid and containing sixty acres of land more or less together with one Negro woman named Priss about 50 years of age one sorrel horse one brown bay mare or filly 2 years old one cow and calf and all my hogs one bed and furniture and all my working tools of all kings (sic) together with all papers debts dues and demands due me from all persons whatever In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal & by making my mark in the presence of the undernamed persons this third day of September 1822. Signed Mordica (his X mark) Hill Martin Cochran William Roberts Rocheford Mays Georgia } Jasper County} Personally came before me William Roberts who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he saw Mordica Hill assign the within Deed for the purposes within mentioned and he at the same time assigned the same as a witness and saw Martin Cochran & Rocheford Mays assign it also Sworn to & subscribed before me this 28th Dec 1822, Signed : James Ramsey, J.P., and William Roberts Additional Comments: Genealogical note: According to Peacock family history Mordecai Hill and Elizabeth Arnold were the parents of Avey Hill, the wife of Lewis Peacock. NOTE: This record was transcribed exactly as written to the best of the transcribers ability to read the record. Words that could not be identified are placed in parenthesis with my best guess followed with a question mark. WHW This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb