Wills:  Morgan County Zachariah Fears, Tho. King & Reuben Mann; Bond for 
Adm. of John Mathews Estate

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Georgia, Morgan County.  

Know all men by these that we Zachariah Fears and Reuben Mann and 
Thomas S. King are held and firmly bound unto their Honors, the 
Justices of the Inferior Court, sitting as a Court of Ordinary for said 
County and their succefsors in office, in the just and full sum of 
Three Thousand Dollars, for the payment of which sum to the said 
Justices and their succefsors, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors 
and administrators in the whole and for the whole sum jointly and 
severally and firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated 
this 3rd day of December 1827.  The condition of the above obligation is 
such that if the above bound Zachariah Fears, administrator of the 
goods, chattels and credits of John Mathews, late of this county, 
deceased, do make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the 
goods, chattels and credits of said deceased which have or shall come 
to the hands, pofsefsion or knowledge of the said Zachariah Fears or 
into the hands or pofsefsion of any other person or persons for him and 
the same, so made, do do eshibit into the said Court of Ordinary, when 
he shall thereunto required, and such goods, chattels and credits, do 
will and truly administer according to law, and do make a just and true 
account of his actings and doings therein, when he shall thereunto be 
required by the Superior Court or the Court of Ordinary for said County 
and all the rest of the goods, chattels and credits, which shall be 
found remaining upon the account of the said administration, the being 
first allowed by the Court, shall deliver and pay to such person or 
persons respectively, we are entitled to the same by law.  And if it 
shall hereafter appear that any last will and testament was made by the 
said deceased, and the same be proved before the Court and the 
executors obtain a certificate of the probate thereof, and the said 
administrator in such case, if required, render and deliver up the said 
letters of administration, then this obligation to be void, else to 
remain in full force.

Signed, sealed and acknowledge in open courts.

Test  John H. Porter C.C.O.              Zachariah Fears
                                         Reuben Mann
                                         Thomas S. King

Recorded 11th of January 1828

John H. Porter, clerk