MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA - DEEDS  Robert Boyd (estate sale John Butler)

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Land purchase by Robert Boyd of Meriwether County
from the estate of John Butler, Elbert County


Copied from the deed books located in the office of the Superior Court Judge, 
Meriwether County Courthouse, Greenville, GA
Aug. 29, 2003
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Meriwether County Deed Book C, page 377


Georgia
Elbert County


Seventh January Eighteen hundred & thirty four Martha
Butler Executrix of John Butler of said County Deceased
did agreeable to an order of the Honerable the Inferior
Court of said county have put up at publick sale a
certain tract or parcel of land lying & being in the
county of Meriwether Originally Troup Cty. known &
distinguished in said plan by No two hundred sixty nine
District nine & Robert Boyd bidding two hundred & fifty
Dollars being hiest & (--?--) bid 

I the said Martha do hereby bargain sell & convey the
above named land containing two hundred two & one half
acres with all its appertinancies thereto belonging the
Receipt is hereby Acknowledged that I the said Martha
hath bargained & conveyed unto the said Robert & that I
the said Martha will warrant & defend the above named
Land & premicies from me my heirs & assigns & any other
person so fair as I am bound (by x law) as Executrix &
no further unto the said Robert Boyd his heirs &
assigns in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
& x & affixed my seal.


Martha Butler as executrix (seal)
of John Butler decd


Robert Woods
John Woods J.P.


Recorded 25 September 1834 Levi M. Adams Clk.
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Notes: Robert Boyd and most of his children moved to
Meriwether from Newberry Dist., SC, sometime in the
early 1830s. Robert made this land purchase, the first
recorded purchase by him in Meriwether County, in
January of 1834. The land was originally in Troup
County and was won by John Butler of Elbert County, a
fortunate drawer in the 1827 lottery. When John died,
the land went up for public sale and Robert, being the
highest bidder, purchased the land for $250. This land
became his homeplace but was later sold (or given) to
his son, William.


The Boyds lived in the Upper Ninth District, in the
extreme northeastern corner of the county, near the
Flint River and the Pike/Coweta county lines. Robert
was married to Rosannah Stewart in South Carolina about
1788. Rosannah died before 1840, as Robert did not name
her in his will. He made his will in Meriwether County
8 Dec. 1840 and it was recorded in Meriwether 5 March
1847. Following his death, most of the children moved
to Carroll County. Neither Robert nor Rosannah's grave
has been located.


Their children included:
William Boyd who married (1) Unknown, d. bef. 1840 (2) Rosanna Unknown (moved 
to Carroll Co.)
Joseph Boyd who married Jane McMillan (moved to Carroll Co.)
Mary B. Boyd who married John Atchison
John Boyd who married (1) Elizabeth Blackburn, (2) Chellie Marenda Nixon 
(lived in Perry Co., AL)
Hugh Boyd who married Nancy (Hopper?) (moved to Carroll Co.)
Gennett (Jane) Boyd who married Samuel Abernathy (Moved to Chambers Co., AL)
James Boyd, died young (not named in will)
Robert Boyd died young (not named in will)
Rosannah Boyd who married Richard Sloan (Rosannah moved to Carroll Co.)
David Barton Boyd who married Elizabeth Turrentine (of Pike Co., GA)
Frances (Fanny) Boyd who married Mark Tidwell (moved to Carroll Co.)
Jefferson Boyd, died young (not named in will)
 --- Compiled by Judy Kilgore, August, 2003