Meriwether County GaArchives Wills.....Wellborn, Alfred August 7 1857
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Source: Meriwether County, Georgia Will Records
Written: August 7 1857
Recorded: December 18 1857


Last Will and Testament of Alfred Wellborn

In the name of God, Amen, I,  ALfred Wellborn of the County of Meriwether, 
State of Georgia, do hereby make, ordain and declare the following to be my 
Last Will and Testament:

First - - It is my Will and desire that all my just debts be paid out of any 
money left by me at the time of my death.

Second - - As it is my will and desire that my property all be equally divided 
between my children now in life and the children of my deceased daughter Mary 
Jane Cochran (the latter to receive the same share of their mother would have 
been entitled to in life) after deducting what I have already given to each of 
them heretofore, which is as follows:

My daughter Mary Jane Cochran has received in negroes and land, property of 
the value of fourteen thousand dollars.  

My daughter Willie E. Martin has received negroes, property of the value of 
twelve thousand dollars.

My daughter Caroline E. Martin has received in negroes, and money, property of 
the value of five thousand nine hundred dollars.

My son Samuel M. Wellborn has received negroes, property and money of the 
value of twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. The negroes which I 
have given to my son are now on my place taken with my other negroes to wit,  
Nace, Ellen, Richard, John, Lem, Charlotte, Frances, Charity, Mike, Louisa, 
Louesey, Jessy, Little Henry, Attila, Spring, Emeline and her child Seaborn, 
and Hubbard.  Green is also with my slaves but was purchased by my son with 
money advanced by me to him and is his property.

I have given my daughter Catherine three Negroes to wit: Lucy and her child 
and Jack which are now at my house and employed as house servants of the value 
of sixteen hundred dollars.  Now it is my Will and intention that my son and 
three living daughters shall receive in Negroe property the same amount which 
my daughter Mary Jane Cochran received to wit: fourteen thousand dollars and 
what each one lacks of receiving that amount heretofore, they are to receive 
in men and women the men to be valued at one thousand dollars each and the 
women at eight hundred dollars each, that is to say, like young men and women 
and other Negroes in the same proportion. 

Third - - It is my Will and desire that when my living children shall have 
received in Negroe property the same amount as received by my deceased 
daughter Mary Jane Cochran to wit: fourteen thousand dollars to be valued as 
stated in the proceeding clause of this instrument, so as to make their 
respective shares equal to what she has, that then the ballance of my estate 
both real and personal shall be equally divided between my children and the 
children of my deceased daughter Mary Jane Cochran, the latter to receive the 
share to which their mother would have been entitled to in life, to wit, the 
one fifth part thereof, share and share alike.  And in the event that my 
daughter Catherine should depart this life without any child or children 
living at the time of her death, then it is my will and desire that the share 
or portion of my property bequeathed to her by this my last Will and Testament 
shall be equally divided between my surviving children and the children of my 
deceased daughter Mary Jane Cochran, the latter to receive the same share as 
their mother would have done if in life.

Fourth - - It is my further will and desire and interest that each and eery 
part and portion of my estate bequeathed and decreed unto my daughters Willie 
E. Martin, Caroline Martin and to my daughter Catherine by this my last Will 
and Testament or any clause thereof shall be and is hereby bequeathed and 
devised unto them for their sole and separate use free from the debts or 
contracts of their present husbands or any future husband that either of them 
may at any time hereafter have or marry, it being the true intent and meaning 
of this my Last Will to secure the said property and every part thereof to the 
sole and separate use of my said daughters and their children, free from the 
debts, contracts or liabilities of their present or any fuyure husbands wich 
either of them may at any time hereafter have or marry, and their separate 
receipts therefore shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executor or legal 
representative of my Estate.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this 6th 
day of August 1857.  Alfred Wellborn  (seal)

Signed, sealed and published in the presence of:  Thos. F. McGehee,  Sarah R. 
McGehee,  Louisa J. McGehee

State of Georgia, Meriwether County

Before me, Parris C. Gresham, Ordinary and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Court of 
Ordinary in and for said County and State,   Samuel M. Wellborn personally 
came and produced before me the Last Will and Testament of Alfred Wellborn, 
late of said County, deceased, and the witnesses to said Will, to wit:  Thomas 
F. McGehee, Sarah R. McGehee and Louisa J. McGehee, which witnesses being duly 
sworn depose and say that they saw Alfred Wellborn the Testator sign, seal and 
declare and publish this instrument now presented as his Last Will and 
Testament freely, voluntarily and of his own accord and without any compulsion 
or influence whatever, that the time of the execution of the said Will, said 
Testator was of sound disposing mind and memory, that deponents signed said 
Will as witnesses in the presence of the Testator and in the presence of each 
other.  Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 18th day of Dec'r 1857.  
P.C. Gresham, O.M.G.       S.K. McGehee, L.J. McGehee, Thos. F. McGehee

Recorded this eleventh day of Jan'y 1858 in Book  "S"  Wills pages 411, 412, 
413, 414 and 415.  Ordinary's Office, Meriwether County, Georgia.  D.C. 
Gresham, O.M.G.
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