Sumter County GaArchives News.....Georgia--Sumter County. August 9 1848 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lindy Hard ssautyvalleyfarm@worldnet.att.net November 23, 2003, 8:34 pm Georgia Journal & Messenger Georgia--Sumter County. In the name of God Amen. I Joseph Jackson, of the County and State aforesaid, being in feeble health, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, calling to mind the uncertainty of ife, and the certainty of death, do make, publish, and declare this to be my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all others and former Wills by me made. Imprimus, 1st. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Jackson, my negro fellow Jacob, Mary his wife, also Sealom[?] and his wife Dinah, a girl called little Mary, and a boy called Squire, Charles and Dane, a negro woman Julia, also to have her choice of four horses out of my stock of horses, ten cows and calves, the household and kitchen furniture to be disposed of at her pleasure, and all of the lands which I may died seized of, on the south side of Line Creek. It is my will that she have the full, free and entire use and occupation and control of said negroes and lands, during her natural life, and after her death, the same to go to remit and be vested in my children and their heirs who may then be in life. 2d. I give and bequeath unto my beloved grand children Jane Brown, Mary Brown, Sarah Brown, ----- Brown and Rachael Brown, lot of land number one hundred and ninety-nine, in the fifteen district of old Lee, now Sumter county, to have and to hold the same in common, till they shall have respectfully arrived or attained the age of twenty-one, share and share alike. 3d I give and bequeath to my son-in-law Douglas N Brown, twenty-five dollars as a token of my reward. 4th I hereby appoint Jesse Jackson, Joseph J C Jackson and Thomas G Cowart, my Executors. It is my will and desire that all the balance of my estate be equally divided between my five children, Jesse Jackson, Joseph Jackson, John Jackson, Mary Ann Jackson, and Thomas Green Jackson, so soon as it can be conveniently done, guardians being appointed for those of non age. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, this the twelfth day of Juyl[sic] [July], eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (Signed) JOSEPH JACKSON, [L.S] Made, uttered, and published, decalred, signed and sealed in the presence of JESSE R HORNE, THOS C SULLIVAN, PHILIP WEST. Court of Ordinary of Sumter County, September Term, 1848. GEORGIA, Sumter County} Personally came into open Court Jesse R Horne, Thomas C Sullivan, and Philip West, who being duly sworn, depose and say that they and each of them saw Joseph Jackson sign, seal, publish and declare the within to be his last Will and Testament, that they and each of them in the presence of testator, subscribed the same as witness, and saw each other subscribe as such, and as witness, and that said testator was at the same time of sound and disposing mind and memory. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court. (Signed) JESSE R HORNE, T C SULLLIVAN, PHILIP WEST. Whereupon, it is considered that Will be and the same as hereby ordered to record, and that each and all of the Executors named in said Will be allowed to qualify and take out letters Testamentary. RULE NISI. GEORGIA, Sumter County} Superior Court, May Term, 1848. It appearing to the Court by the petition of Joseph [sic]C Jackson, surviving executor of the last Will and Testament of Joseph Jackson, deceased, that he was possessed of the original Will in said petition mentioned, and the probate of said Will and the order admitting the same to record, has been lost or destroyed, without being admitted to record, copy of said Will, probate and order admitting the same to record is hereuntoannexed, & he the said Jesse [sic]C Jackson praying the establishing of the said copy Will and probate and order admitting the same to record in lieu of the original lost or destroyed: It is therefore ordered ty the court, that the heirs at law of Joseph Jackson, deceased (to wit:) Douglas N Brown, John J[?] Jackson, Calvin Telder[?] in right of his wife, and Mary Jackson shew cause if any they have, by the first day in the next term of this Court, why said copy Will and Testament, probate and order admitting the same to record, should not be established in lieu of the lost original as aforesaid. And it is further ordered by the Court, that a copy of this rule be personally served on each of the heirs at law as aforesaid if to be found in this State, & that it be published in the Journal and Messenger three months previous to the next term of this Court. True extract from the Minutes of the Superior Court, this 29th July 1848. MANASSEH M GUERRY, Cl'k. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb