Georgia:  Oglethorpe County:  Lodowick Tuggle Last Will & Testament
23 September 1798

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Will dated 23 Sept 1798 probated 20 Oct 1798, is of record in Oglethorpe 
Will Book "A" at page 80, and reads: 

"In the name of God Amen ~ I Lodowick Tuggle of Oglethorpe County and 
state of Georgia, being weak and low in health-But of perfect mind & 
memory- make this my last will and testament, My estate and effects I 
bequeath and dispense of in the following manner and form(?)- 

First my will and desire is, as I have given my four sons part of my 
estate, that they give a true account of what they have received and that it 
may be considered and counted as my estate, and then my will is that the 
whole of my estate be equally divided between all of my children. ~ 
My will further is that the land I now live on be not sold, but be kept 
and remain as a home for my children until my youngest child, Nancy 
Tuggle, comes of age, then to be sold and divided amongst all of my 
children. ~ 

My will further is that the land I had of Charles Brooks and what else 
of my estate my executors shall think best to be sold, that they sell 
it and divide the same among them. But my Negroes, I do not allow to be 
sold, but equally divided among my children, viz: George, Robert, Thomas, 
William, Sally, Eunice, Savannah, Catherine, Elizabeth and Nancy Tuggle, ~ as 
soon as my Executors can, the division of my estate is to be, and I herby 
constitute and appoint my two oldest sons, George Tuggle and Robert Tuggle 
and Philemon Bird, Executors of this my last will and Testament, in 
witness wherefore of I have here unto take my hand and seal , this twenty 
third day of September, one thousand seven hundred & ninety eight~ signed, 
sealed and declared by the within Lodowick Tuggle to be his last will and 
testament in the presence of us, signed: 
Philemon Bird 
Geo Jeffries 
Tho Jeffries" 
From: Anne Brown 
Brooksville, FL 
annebrown2@bellsouth.net