JONES  COUNTY  GA  WILL OF SLATTER, NANCY - 1838


LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF NANCY SLATTER

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JONES COUNTY, GEORGIA, RECORD OF WILLS TRANSCRIBED FROM BOOK A 1809-1815, 
BOOK B 1815-1825, BOOK C 1826-1856, PAGES 286-288 (originally in Will Book C)
Office of the Probate Judge of Jones County, Georgia


Georgia
Jones County
In the name of God Amen!
I Nancy Slatter being of sound mind, and of disposing memory, and knowing 
that it is appointed, once for all men to die, do make and ordain this to be 
my last will and testament, in the words, following, to wit:

Item 1st: I will and bequeath my soul to God, who gave it, and my body to a 
christian-like burial.

Item 2nd: It is my will and desire that my two old negroes Ben and Sally, his 
wife, have the choice, at my death to live with whichever of my children they 
prefer; and it is further my will that my executors give them out of my 
estate, Fifty Dollars jointly.

Item 3. It is my will and desire that my executor give, out of my estate, 
Fifty Dollars Fifty Dollars [sic] to my two negroes Luke and Chaney, jointly.

Item 4th. I give and bequeath to Martha Bostwick, Fifty Dollars.

Item 5th. It is my will and desire that all of my property, after paying the 
above named sums of money, be equally divided among my five children, 
Elizabeth Lowther, Nancy T. Parrish, Hope H. Slatter, Shadrack F. Slatter, 
John J. Slatter; and it is further my will that at the death of my daughter 
Elizabeth Lowther, Nancy F. Howard and the heirs of her body have all of the 
share that Elizabeth Lowther may draw from my estate. It is also my will and 
desire at the death of my daughter, Nancy T. Parrish, that her share of my 
estate go to Frances Ann Slatter, daughter of John J. Slatter - it is, also, 
my will and desire, at the death of my son, Hope H. Slatter, that Nancy P. 
Slatter, his daughter, have the share that he (Hope H. Slatter) may draw from 
my estate. It is further my will and desire, that, before the distribution of 
my property, my funeral expenses, and the further expense of building a rock 
wall around my graveyard be paid.

It is further my will and desire that whichever of my children my two 
negroes, Ben and Sally, should prefer to live with, take them at their 
appraisement in distribution of my property.

Item 6th. I do hereby nominate and appoint John J. Slatter to be my executor 
to this my last will and testament - in testimony where of I here unto set my 
hand and seal, this 9th November 1838.

Test. H. F. Williams               Nancy F. Slatter (L.S.)
      Joseph Winship

Georgia
Jones County
In chambers, Nov. 2, 1841
And now in vacation before us, Charles Hutchings & John F. Comer, two of the 
Justices of the Inferior court of said county, in person came H. F. Williams, 
one of the subscribing witnesses to the within instrument of writing, and 
being duly sworn, deposeth & saith that he saw Nancy Slatter the testatrix, 
sign, publish & declare this instrument to be and contain her last will and 
testament, that she done so freely and without compulsion, and that she was 
of sound & disposing mind and memory at the execution thereof and that she 
was of and Joseph Winship subscribe the same as witnesses in the presents of 
the testatrix and at her request and in the presence of each other.
                                   Howell F. Williams

Sworn to and subscribed before us, this 2nd November 1841.
                                   John F. Comer, J.I.C.
                                   Charles Hutchings, J.I.C.

I, John J. Slatter, the only executor named in the last will & testament of 
my deceased mother, Mrs. Nancy Slatter, late of Jones county, deceased, do 
hereby resign and relinquish said executorship, and assign as a reason 
therefor that I am not a citizen of the state of Georgia and the statute of 
this state requires citizens to act in that capacity, and that the distance 
between this and my residence would render it very inconvenient for me to 
attend.
                                   John J. Slatter
Recorded 19 January 1842.


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