Pike COUNTY  GA  Wills -  Pilkinton, Robert 1869

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Will: Pike Co., Georgia Robert Pilkinton dated March 1, 1869  Bk C 440-441

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 I Robert Pilkinton of Said County and State do make publish and  
declare this writing to contain my
last will and Testament hereby declaring all former wills
made by me revoked. Item lst   I will and bequeath that
after my death all my just debts be paid out of any
effects by my executors hereinafter named. 

Item 2nd  I
will and bequeath to my beloved wife Nancy Pilkinton for
and during her life and after death to go to and be
equally divided among all my children the following
negros to wit Simon Harry Harriett Mack and Judge and the
Plantation belonging to me known as the Dominick
Plantation containing one hundred and seventy five acres
more or less and a sufficiency of stock to furnish said
plantation and all the house hold and kitchen furniture
that she owned at the time of her marriage with me. Item

3rd  My will wish and desire is that the whole of the
remainder of my estate of what kind so ever be the same
real personal or mixed go to and be equally divided among
all my children share and share alike and that the same
be made by me executors with as little expense to my
estate as the balance of the case will admit of that is
with as few orders of count and as few sales as the
notice of the case will admit of and all property be
divided without sale that can be by doing equal justice
to each of my children. 

Item 4th  My will wish and desire
is that my friends Green B. M. Blount and Thos J. Levin
qualify and act as my Executors to carry this my (blotted
out) will into execution, in witness whereof the said
Robert Pilkinton has hereunto sat his hand and declaring
this writing to contain his last will and Testament this
the 11th day of January 1864.
                                         Robert Pilkinton
We the undersigned Saw Robert Pilkinton Sign and Seal and heard 
him Publish and declare the forgoing writing to contain his last 
will and testament and that we Signed the Same in his presence 
in the presence of each other at his request this the 11 the day 
of January 1864.
 
John H. MItchell,                
Z. L. _________(?Hupuly)                
Martin Cooper
 
Pike Court of Ordinary March Term 1869
The will of Robert Pilkinton being produced in open court
for probate by the Adm of the Estate who has file a
petition to prove the same and the witness to Said will
one of whom has having subscribed the following affidavit
endorsed on Said will March Term 1869 Pike County of
Ordinary, came in Open court at this term of the Court
John H. Mitchell one of the witnesses who being duly
sworn declare that he saw Robert Pilkinton Sign and
Publish the within as his last will and testament while
of Sound and disposing mind and memory and that he
witnesses the same for him at his request and in his
presence and of each of the other witnesses and that he
same was Executor Voluntarily by him on the day it
purports to have been executed in
 
Sworn to before me in Open
Court March 1st 1869     John Mitchell
J. J. _____________ Ordy
 
Recorded May 7th, 1869
J. J. _____________ Ordy
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