JASPER COUNTY  GA   Richard Mitchell - will -1818
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Ordinary Office, Jasper County, GA p 353-4

To all who these presence may come knowing that I Richard Mitchell of the
county of Jasper and state of Georgia do hereby viewing the certainty of
death and being in much bodily affliction tho in sound (mind) & memory make
this my last will and testament viz

1stly I resign my body to its mother dust and implore divine mercy for the
happy reception of my soul.

2ndly I desire that all my just debts should be paid.

3rdly I give and bequeath unto my dear and beloved wife Elizabeth Mitchell
all my estate during her natural lifetime or widowhood and no longer with
the following exceptions i. e. at any time when any or all of my three
daughters (viz) Polly Finch Mitchell, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Sarah Mitchell
should marry then and at that time they or either of them is each of them to
have a negro girl from the estate or proceeds thereof of the age of twelve
or fourteen years, one good horse saddle, one good bed and furniture, but
previous to which if either of them should die then and in that case their
portion is to (be) equally divided between my surviving daughters.

4thly At the death of my wife or at her intermarriage with another then the
ballance of my estate with all its future proceeds is to be equally divided
between my sons (viz) William Mitchell, Walter Mitchell, Robert Mitchell,
Richard Mitchell, Joshua Mitchell & Joel Mitchell deducting from Walter
Mitchell one hundred dollars, from Robert Mitchell one hundred dollars &
from Richard Mitchell two hundred dollars that they have already received in
land.

5thly I do hereby constitute and appoint my sons Walter Mitchell & Robert
Mitchell my true and lawfull executors to carry this my will fully into
effect in testimony whereof I have here unto set my name and seal this 18th
of February 1818. Richard Mitchell

In presence of
John B. Whatley
James Beeland
Jesse Holloway


Monday September the 7th 1818 The honorable the court of ordinary met
pursuant to adjoinment present their honors
John Rivers}
John Moore}
Barrett Crawford} Judges
& Hiram Glazier}

Robert Mitchell having been appointed Executor of the last will and
testament of Richard Mitchell deceased and after qualifcation as such having
declined to perform the duties incumbent upon him as such, It is therefore
ordered that the _____ ____ ____ granted to the said Robert Mitchell be and
the same is hereby repealed.

Whereas Richard Mitchell deceased did by his last will and testament of
appoint Walter Mitchell and Robert Mitchell executors of his last will and
testament, the first of whom having declined qualifying and the latter after
qualification declining to serve and perform the duties of Executors It is
thereupon ordered that Elizabeth Mitchell widow of the said Richard Mitchell
be and she is hereby appointed administratrix on the Estate of the said
Richard Mitchell deceased with the will annexed.

and legatees report
the widow's dower to be laid of in the following manner to begin at a stake
on the midle of the lot of land of which the said Richard Mitchell died
___ed and possessed of and on the line adjoining James Brown's land and
running a direct line through the middle of said land untill a stake on the
line of said lott adjoining Reubin Edwards devideing, said lands in two
equal parts the lower or south esterly part including the mansion house and
other building and in which part we have included the distributive shares of
Joshua Mitchell, Elizabeth Mitchell and Sarah Mitchell and the other half of
the said lands to be laid of in size equal shares both as the quantity and
quality which shares shall be considered the property of Will Mitchell
Walter Mitchell Robert Mitchell Richard Mitchell Jore [Joel] sic Mitchell
and Aristarety Newton in wright of his wife-and it is hereby agreed by the
commissioners aforesaid that the one third part of the the said tract of
land of which the said Richard Mitchell died seized (?) and possessed of
which we have laid of to the widow Elizabeth Mitchell shall be and remain
her proper right and property for and during her natural life time and at
her death to be equally divided amongst all the children or their legal
representatives of the said Richard Mitchell decd. and Elizabeth Mitchell
his wife shair and shair a like.
carried to book F, folio 219 (or 217)

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