JONES  COUNTY  GA  WILL OF BILLINGSLEA, JAMES A - 1855

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		LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JAMES A. BILLINGSLEA


JONES COUNTY, GEORGIA, WILL RECORD D, PAGES 75-77


Georgia
Jones County

I, James A. Billingslea of said county being of sound mind and disposing 
memory do make constitute and appoint this to be my last will and testament 
in manner and form following.

1. I will and bequeath unto my beloved mother Elizabeth Lowther all my 
estate, real and personal, consisting of land, negroes, [illegible] 
property..mules horses Stock of every description, corn, fodder, wheat, oats, 
farming utensils, carriage wagons, money notes and accounts, and all other 
property, or estate, of whatever kind or description except hereinafter 
Specified, to have and to hold the same forever, in fee simple.

2. I will and bequeath unto my friends, Richard H. Hutchings and James M. 
Gray the following named negroes, to wit Fereby and her two children, Lucy 
and Jim, Eliza and her children, Constance, Elbert, Elizabeth, Ann Lavinia, 
Mary Jane, and Robert. I also will to the said Richard H. Hutchings and James 
M. Gray the sum of thirteen thousand dollars to have and to hold said negroes 
and money, unto them and their heirs forever, said thirteen thousand dollars 
to be raised by the sale of such negroes or other property as my executors 
may select for that purpose.

3. I hereby nominate and appoint the said Richard H. Hutchings and and James 
M. Gray my executors to carry into effect this my last will and testament.

                              James A. Billingslea (Seal)

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator as and for his last 
will and testament in our presence, who at his request and his presence have 
subscribed the same as witnesses this 17th day of July 1855 the word Elbert 
interlined before signed.

                              E. G. Hutchings
                              S. Hitch
                              P. S. Clower

Georgia, Jones County
     Court or Ordinary July term 1856

In person appeared in open court Elbert L. Catching, Silvanus Hitch and Peter 
L. Clower who being duly sworn saith that they saw James A. Billingslea the 
testator sign seal declare and publish the foregoing instrument now presented 
to the court as his last will and testament freely voluntarily and of his own 
accord and without compulsion or undue influence whatever, that at the time 
of execution of the said will, he was of sound and disposing mind and memory, 
that deponents signed the same as witnesses in his presence and at his 
request and in the presence of each other.

                              Peter L. Clower
                              Elbert G. Catchings
                              Silvanus Hitch

Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court this seventh day of July 
1856.
                              Charles Macarthy Ordinary

Recorded July 7th 1856.

                              Charles Macarthy Ordinary

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