Meriwether COUNTY  GA  Will Ezekiah F. Goss

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Know all men by these presence that I Ezekiah F. Goss of
the County of Meriwether and State of Georgia Knowing
that there is a time alloted for all men to die as to my
body I wish to be buried in a descent and Christian like
manner as to what worldly effect I may have I wish to be
distributed in the following manner :

first of all wish all
my just debts to be paid wish all my property to be Kept
together on the premises in case my daughter Mary
Elizabeth should marry I wish her to have equivalent to
each of my other two daughters that are married have had
in property. The balance to remain until my youngest child
John Colbot become of age all be in charge of my wife
Luch Goss.  

Feeling it my duty to provide for a child in
expectancy to be born of the body Selina Huddleston I
will and bequeath to the aforesaid child provided it
should be born alive and live two small negroes horses
and Rachel to be given to Selina Huddleston the mother of
said Child immediately after the birth of the same Should
come to maturity & live and in case the aforeaid Child
should not live to manhood, or womanhood the said negroes
then to revert back to my estate the balance as aforesaid
to be kept together until my youngest child becomes of
age as aforesaid then to be equally distribued between my
wife and her four children all rendering in account of
what they have had so as to come to an equal distribution

I leave my wife Lucy Goss Executrix and my son-in-law
Charles L. Dupree my executor to this my last Will and
Testament In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and Seal this twenty sixth day of September in the year
of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty nine

Signed, sealed in the presence )) 
of Witnesses                   ))          H. F. Goss (Seal)
J. C. Coker                    ))
Wm D. Linsley               ))
   Georgia             ))              Court of Ordinaray
Meriwether County      ))         July Adjourned Term 1840

The within last Will and Testament of Hezekiah F. Goss
having been duly presented at this Term of the Court in
open Court upon the oath of Wm. P. Linsley  one of the
subscribing witnesses to the said Will and upont the oath
of Ch. Koch proving the signature of J. C. Coker the
other subscribing witness to said will and also proving
that said J. C. Coker had absconded to parts unknown
Ordered that the same be admitted to Record this 8th July
1840. Recorded 9th July 1840
                      Levi M. Adams, Clk.



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