Morgan County GaArchives Wills.....Barton, Presley 1822
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Source: Morgan County Georgia Will Book B
Written: 1822
Recorded: March 29,

 In the name of God Amen Presley Barton of Morgan County, Georgia being very 
sick & weak in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be to God make & 
ordain this my last will & testament. I give & recommend my soul to the hands 
of Almighty God & my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent 
Christian burial.
1st. I give to Polly my dearly beloved daughter now the wife of Wiley White 
$100 to be raised out of my estate in addition to what I have already given 
her which is a negro girl Sal, bedstead, bed, & furniture, a chest, saddle & 
colt.
2nd. Also I give to Jansey my well beloved daughter now the wife of Elbert 
White $100 to be raised out of my estate in addition to what I have already 
given her which is a negro girl Eda, bedstead, bed, & furniture, chest, 
saddle, &c.
3rd. Also my land which I now live on to be sold & Elizabeth Barton my dearly 
beloved wife to have 1/3 of the money that it sells for or otherwise have it 
rightly divided & take her 1/3 of the land. Also my plantation tools of all 
discription & all my other tools with my negroes Ned, Kit, Dilce, Ike, Rachel, 
Doss, Bob, Nance, Aaron, & Sarah. Also my horses which is 5 head, my stock of 
cows & hogs, household & kitchen furniture, 2 wagons & gear, a cotton gin, a 
set blacksmith tools, a gold watch. Also 2 rifle guns & a shot gun,& my crop 
of corn & fodder &c. Also for the purpose of paying my just debts my present 
crop of cotton to be cleaned & sent to Augusta & sold & the money put to the 
use of paying my just debts. Also a note of hand on Thomas Garrett four $25 
notes on William H. Ray & a note on Samuel Hemphill & a note on Joseph Tarpley 
all to be collected & also to be put to the use of paying my debts & if any 
left it to be equally divided between my wife & my children that is now with 
her but if not enough then to come from the sale of my other property & after 
my just debts are all paid then the amount of my estate except my land to be 
equally divided Elizabeth my wife & my children Rhoda, Anna, William, Joel, 
Elias, & Beththena Barton by them freely to be possessed & enjoyed. I utterly 
disallow, revoke, & annul all & every other former testament & confirm this & 
no other to be my last will & testament. I make William Barton & Joel Gaar 
executors, 23 Aug. 1821.                           /s/ Presly Barton.
 Witnesses: P.R. Jenkins, John M. Buttler.
 Proved by Payton R. Jenkins who saw John M. Buttler witness, 11 March 1822, 
John Nisbet, clk. Recorded 29 March 1822.

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