Muscogee-Talbot-Baldwin County GaArchives Wills.....Scurlock, William August 15, 1840
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Source: Georgia Probate Records, Muscogee County
Written: August 15, 1840
Recorded: January 26, 1841

Georgia
Muscogee County


Be it known to all to whom these presents shall come that heretofore to wit 
on the fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and 
forty
William Scurlock of said county and state in his last sickness in the 
habitation or dwelling house of John Scurlock where he had been resident 
about one month made the following nuncupative will in words that is to say 
he the said Scurlock then and there gave and bequeathed a certain Negro Girl 
slave of light complexion named Rachel about seven yeas of age to his 
daughter Caroline Matilda Files now ( formerly Caroline Matilda Scurlock 
together will all her future natural increase to her and to her heirs 
forever. He also then and there gave and bequeathed to his beloved wife 
Rhoda Scurlock all the balance of his real and personal estate of whatsoever
kind or nature the same may be to her and her heirs forever. 

Georgia
Muscogee County
 Personally appeared in open court Benjamin Doles and John Scurlock and 
Gracey Scurlock who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that they were 
present at the last sickness of William Scurlock at the residence and 
dwelling house of John Scurlock in the county and state aforesaid and that 
he died without returning to his residence and that they heard him declare 
and publish in substance the above and foregoing as his last will and 
testament and that the said Scurlock called upon them to take notice thereof 
and bear witness of the same and that each were in his presence and he was 
at the time of sound and disposing mind and memory and that he published and 
declared the same freely without any compulsion so far as we know or believe

Sworn to and subscribed 
in open court this 26th day
 of January eighteen hundred and forty one

John Scurlock
Gracey Scurlock mark

Additional Comments:
William Scurlock was a veteran soldier of the Revolutionary War having 
served in the North Carolina Militia. He had land holdings in Talbot County, 
Georgia. He moved from North Carolina after the Revolutionary War to Baldwin 
County. He filed for a pension in Baldwin in 1833. He was married to Rhoda 
Simmons of Wake County, North Carolina in Hancock County, Georgia in 1790. 

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