Monroe County GaArchives Wills.....Taylor, Job 1856
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Source: Court Of Ordinary Book B Pg 190
Written: 1856

Job Taylor Will
Monroe County, GA
March 3, 1856
Court of the Ordinary
Book B, page 190

Document 23

In the name of God, Amen, I, Job Taylor of the county and state aforesaid being
of sound and disposing mind and memory do make and publish the following to be
my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills by me at anytime made. 

Item the 1st:  I desire my body to be buried in a decent Christian like manner
believing in the resurrection of the dead and salvation through faith in our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Item the 2nd: I wish all my debts to be paid by my executors as soon after my
death as practicable.
Item the 3rd.  I will and bequeath to my beloved wife, Mary, the following
property and its increase during her natural life to wit:

	Reuben, my carriage driver and Susan, his wife;
	Little Susan and her six children, to wit Fanny, Jonah, Jeff, Antoinette,
Neaty, Zack and any other which she may hereafter have;
	Young George and his wife, Katy and her five children to wit: Cely, Lydia,
Demus, Betsy and Ellis;
	Steve and his wife, Louisa
	Anderson
	Backus and his wife, Leah
	Orange and his wife, Nicey and her five children to wit: Adam, Surmanser, Mose,
Allen, and Burnetta;
		Ike
	Becka and her three children to wit: Polly, Early and Jacob;
and any child or children which any of the above named negroes may have before
or after my death.
	
	I also give and bequeath to my said wife either one of my plantations in said
county to be selected by her after my death also my pleasure carriage and
match-horses and all the household furniture that I may possess at my death
together with all the horses and mules and all the stock of every kind that may
belong to said plantation and the farming utensils thereon and our years
provision for the family and stock to have and to hold said property and its
increase during the natural life of my said wife and after her death the whole
of said property and its increase, natural and artificial, to be equally divided
among my children living at her death and the child or children of any one or
more that may be dead to take the share that their deceased parent would have
been entitled to provided he or she had not died.

Item the 4th. My will and desire is that the following named negroes to wit,
Josh and his wife, Kizzy, George and his wife, Easter, Tom and his wife, Creasy,
and Peter be allowed to live with my wife or with any of my children whom they
may select and who will agree to take and support them.

Item the 5th.  My will and desire is that all my property real and personal
herein before disposed of and not herein otherwise after disposed of be equally
disposed at my death among all my children and any advancements which I may have
made or may make to any of them I wish to be taken into account in making the
distribution and accounted to him or her as so much of his or her share.  

The portion to which my three younger children, to wit, Eaton, Elijah and
Rebecca may be entitled I will and wish to be kept together and managed by my
executors until either one of them shall come of age or marry and when either of
my said younger children shall come of age or marry, my will and desire is that
my executors shall divide the whole of the property with its increase into three
equal shares and assign one share to him or her so becoming of age or marrying
and so do with the others as they become of age or marry and I further will and
desire that in making the distribution of my estate after my death that one of
my plantations, after my wife has made her selection, be allotted to my three
younger children at a fair valuation as so much of their share, and if any of my
children should die before a distribution of my estate is made as mentioned in
this item, having a child or children shall receive the share to which the
deceased parent would have been entitled provided he or she had not died.

Item the 6th.  I will and bequeath the portion of my estate (if any) that may be
set apart as the share of my son, William W. Taylor, to my son, Bryann F.
Taylor, and my son-in-law Charles F. Gordon as trustees free from the debts and
liabilities of the said William W. Taylor, either heretofore contracted or any
which he may hereafter contract to be held by the trustees aforesaid for the
sole use and benefit of the wife and children of the said William W. Taylor and
for his maintenance and support during the life of the said William W. Taylor
and after his death to be equally divided among his children, share and share
alike.

Item the 7th.  My will and desire is that my swamp plantation in Bibb County and
lot number six in southwestern range in the city of Macon be rented out yearly
except the house in which my sister, Mary Douglass, resides.  Which house I wish
her to have rent free until her death, until the last of my three younger
children shall become of age and the rent divided equally among my children and
when the last of my three younger children shall become of age, I will that said
swamp plantation and lot number 6 be sold and the proceeds equally divided among
all my children then living and if any be dead leaving children, the children to
take the share that their deceased parent would have been entitled to had he or
she been alive.

Item the 8th.  My will and desire is that lot number 5 in square five in the
city of Macon whereon George Douglass now lives be allowed him rent free one
year after my death and then sold and the proceeds be divided among my children
as herein before directed,

Item the 9th.  All my real estate not known disposed of, I wish to be sold.  My
lands or real estate or real estate in the state of Alabama, I wish to be sold
at the discretion of my executors.

Item the 10th.  I hereby nominate and appoint my son, Benjamin F. Taylor, and my
son-in-law Charles F. Gordon executors and my wife, Mary, executrix to this my
last will and testament.

**The word “three” mentioned before signing.

Signed, sealed, published and recorded in presence of the subscribing witnesses
who sign at the request of the testator and in his presence and in the presence
of Job Taylor and of each other this February 2, 1834.
Filed March 3, 1856
J.J. Pinckard
James L. Brandon
A. D. Steel

E. G. Cabariss
Ordinary






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