Jones  COUNTY  GA  Wills - Jonathan Halsted - 1815

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Jones County, Georgia Wills:  
Book A, Pages26-27.  
Probated 2 January 1815.  
Jonathan Halsted's Will: 

My will is that Isabella Halsted, my wife, shall occupy and enjoy all the 
property tenable or personal that shall be in my possession at my death; that she shall be 
sole and only Executrix and with liberty for me to do and act as she shall think proper 
during her lifetime.  At her decease the residue of the property, that I may die posses of 
shall go to my children share and share alike.  I hereby give freedom to Prince my slave 
at the death of my wife, Isabella, with whom he must serve until her decease.  

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty-seventh day of 
August 1814, and in the Independence of U. S. 39.   Jonathan Halsted.  
Signed, sealed 
and delivered in the presence of 
John Simmons, R. Hill, J. H. Renton. 

Georgia. Jones County.  
Personally came and appeared in Open Court, James Horatio Renton one of the 
subscribing witnesses to the within will who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he 
saw Jonathan Halsted, deceased, execute the within will and that it is the true last will and 
testament of the said deceased and that John Simmons and Robert Hill were present and 
subscribed their names as witnesses thereto.  Sworn to in Open Court this 2nd day of 
January, 1815.  J. H. Renton.  H. M. Comer, Clk O. C.  See Will book "A2,69-70".

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