SCREVEN COUNTY, GA - WILL of Cleton Poythress

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In the name of God, Amen.  

I, Cleton Poythress of the County of Scriven & State of
Georgia (Planter) being weak in body & health but of
perfect mind & memory thanks be given to God, and calling
to mind the morality (sic) of my body & knowing that it is
appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this,
my last will & Testament that is to say principally & first
of all I give and recommend my soul into the hand of
Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the
earth to be buried in decent christian burial,  at the
discretion of my Executor, nothing doubting but at the
General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the
mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate
wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I
give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner
& form, viz. 

First I give and bequeath to my father Meredith Poythress
one Cow and calf.  

Also I will & bequeath to my sister Elizabeth Brannen my
two negroes viz. Hilly and her child Lucy on her paying to
my brother Meredith Poythress and my Niece Sarah Elizabeth
Poythress one hundred dollars each.     

Also, I will and bequeath that my Executor will have so
much of my cattle & hogs & horses sold as will pay all my
just and lawful debts & the balance of all my stock to
equally divided between my sister Elizabeth Brannen & my
brother Meredith Poythress & my Niece Sarah Elizabeth
Poythress.   

And I the aforesaid Cleton Poythress do constitue(sic),
make & ordain Hope Brannen of the County & State aforesaid
my sole Executor of this my last & only Will & Testament &
I do hereby utterly disannul, revoke & disavow any other
former legacies, bequest, will, or Testament confirming and
ratifying this & no other to be my last will & Testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my
seal this the eighteenth day of May one thousand eight
hundred & twenty eight.  

Signed, Sealed,published; pronounced by the man Cleton
Poythress as his last testament in the presence of us, who
in his presence & in the presence of each other have
hereunto subscribed our names.
	       				}	Cleton Poythress   {LS}
Cullen Williamson                     }
William Brannen, Jane Brannen  }

Georgia              } 
Screvin County  }


Personally appeared in open court Cullen Williamson who
being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he saw the within
named Cleton Poythress sign, seal, publish & pronounce the
foregoing instrument of writing as his last will and
testament, and deponent further saith that he saw William
Brannen & Jane Brannen together with himself subscribe
their names as witnesses to the same.
                                                          
Sworn to & subscribed in open               
Cullen Williamson
Court this 7th day of July 1828   }
  Jell. Wade      I. I. C.                }      
Recorded this 9th day of July 1828.
  Jacob Bryan   I. I. C.                }           
Seaborn Goodall  C.C.O.I.C.
  Alexander Kemp  I. I. C.          }               
 County, Georgia, 18 May 1828