Will Of Benjamin Blanton 1845, Oglethorpe County, Georgia Submitted by Joe Cannafax ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Will of Benjamin Blanton, Sr. , signed 9 October 1837, recorded 11 November 1845, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Will Book D, 1833-1866, pp. 174, 175, 176. In the name of God, Amen. I, Benjamin Blanton, of the County of Oglethorpe and the State of Georgia, being of feeble health but of sound mind and memory, make and ordain this my last will and testament, revoking and making null and void all others heretofore made or written, and feeling that I am going fast the way of all the earth, herein bid farewell to all things of a temporal nature here below. Committing my body to be buried at Pope's Meeting House, in a plain manner at the discretion of my Executor and my soul into the hands of God who has taken particular care of me from infancy through a long life of more than three score years and ten, and hoping alone for Salvation in and through the merits and atonement of Jesus Christ to obtain eternal life and not by any works of my own. It is my will and desire that my debts all be paid and it is my will that my beloved wife Susannah Blanton (who has been a good wife to me) shall be provided for in the following manner, first I give and bequeath to my wife Susannah Blanton six black people, that came from Sparta in Hancock County from Hugh Tailor (?) deceased, by name Patience, Big Jack, Andorion, Betty, Mariah and Selah, and their increase. I also give and bequeath to her all those parts of my plantation on which I now live from the Bridge on the north side of the lane to John Harris' line, and adjoining Hill and Martin. I also give and bequeth to her the end [?] of my dwelling house Southard and next to the kitchen, together with all the furniture of the said Rooms below stair, together with the furniture of said Rooms, and table utensils from the rooms she occupies, together with the use of the Passage. And it is my will that she, my dear wife, have all the above named property during her natural life and then to be cast in with the rest of my estate and then to be equally divided between my two sons Benjamin and William Blanton, as their part of my property. I also give and bequeath to my Daughter, Mary Alexander, three volumes of William Jay's [Ivy's?] Works, with her name in them wrote with my hand. I also give and bequeath to my Daughter, Sarah F. Reid, three volumes of William Ivy's [?} works with her name wrtten in them with my hand. I also give and bequeath to my son in law Peyton Alexander of the State of Alabama, One Family Bible with his name wrote in it with my hand. And I give and bequeath to my two sons Benjamin and William all the estate I own, consisting of Real and personal, together with all my money notes, Book accounts, and stock of every description, furniture, plantation tools, wheel carriages, etc. to be equally divided between them. But it is to be particularly understood that I have made heretofore an Advance to Benjamin of the sum of twenty two hundred and fifty one dollars and eighty cents, which is and shall be considered as Already given him as a part of his Legacy. And it is my will, if consistent to my executors, that as little of my property be sold at public sale as may be judged necessary, and none of my Library of Books but be equally divided. And it is my will and desire that if either of my sons should die leaving no heir, that his part of the property shall go to the surviving brother. That all the property I give to be continued in the hands of my Blood Relations, and that no disputes or difficulties shall arise with my heirs when I am gone. And it is my will that my two sons Benjamin and William Blanton be the executors of this my last will and testament, signed this ninth day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven, signed and sealed in presence of Henry J. Pope Blanton M. Hill John G. Hammond Benjamin Blanton