Monroe County GaArchives Court.....Taylor, John  (contest Of) 1833
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Source: Document 21
Written: 1833

John Taylor
Contesting of Taylor’s Will
Court of the Ordinary
May 1833
Monroe County, GA

Document 21

	And now at this time the will of John Taylor late of said county deceased being
brought before the Court for Probate in solemn form and for administration to
record.  Jeremiah Taylor, Amos Nobles in right of his wife Jenissey??? Nobles,
John Taylor, Reuben Taylor in right of his wife Polly, John C. King in right of
his wife Susan King
	being legatees under the pretended will of the said John Taylor deceased came
and ??? their caveat against proof of said will on the following grounds to wit’’

1) That said John Taylor at the time of making said pretended will was not of
sound disposing mind and memory;
2nd) For that said John Taylor did not execute said pretended will freely, but
was unduly influenced and induced by the overpowering unfortunities??? of his
wife and others acting in her behalf to make said pretended will and to make an
unequal distribution of his property whereby he gave to his wife and his
children by her a much larger share than would have been entitled to by
distribution and under to that explicit diminished the shares of the caveators.
3) For that the said John Taylor made said pretended will under the belief that
the advancement made to his children being the caveators and others by his first
wife together with the share given them by said pretended will would make the
shake of each equal to the shares of his last wife and his children by her -
which belief was founded up a mistake in the facts and the circumstances
connected with the advancement.

N. P. Taisse???
J.J. Pinchback
attorneys for caveators
filed in office May 2, 1853
E. J. Cabarifs

David R. Tinsley En? and Cynthia Taylor En? of the said John Taylor came into
court and trancred the power of the met?? court  and they say that John Taylor
was of sound mind and memory at the time of executing said will, that he
executed said will freely and without compulsion, that he was not unduly
influenced or induced by his wife or by any other person to make said will.  He
was not unduly influenced to make an unequal distribution of his estate, nor did
the said John Taylor make said will under the belief that the advancement made
to the children of his first wife, together with the share given them under said
will, would make the share of each equal to the share of his wife and his
children by her, nor was there any mistake in the fact and circumstances
connected with the advancement, wherefore they say that the said will is good
and valid in law and ought to be admitted to be proved and recorded ??? ??? ???
judgment of the court.

Z. E. Harman



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