WARREN COUNTY, GA - WILLS Pryor Gardner Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Larealia Camp Larealia@msn.com Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/crawford.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm The last will and testament of Pryor Gardner State of Georgia In the name of God Amen Warren Co. I Pryor Gardner of the State and County aforesaid being in reasonable health in mind and body but considering the uncertainty of this life do make the following my will and testament to wit To God I commend my soul and my body to the earth in decent burial, and of my earthly estate First I will and desire that all my just debts be paid Second, Whereas Joseph Denson and Redding Lewis became security for Benjamin Sandeford together with myself by Bond to Andrew Stewart in a process of law in Warren County at the instance of said Andrew Stewart against said Benjamin Sandeford to make safe the said Andrew Stewart in a suit now pending in Warren Superior Court for the recovery of five hundred and eighty dollars eighty one and a quarter cents (or thereabouts) __________ interest wherein I. S. Barry is plaintiff and said Benajmin Sandeford and Andrew Stewart are defendants on a promissory note in which said Andrew Stewart is only security now if said Joseph Denson and Redding Lewis or either of them shall ultimately pay said debt or any part thereof in consequence of these said securityship then I will wish and desire that they and each of them or either of them be paid out of my estate the full sum of money they or either of them may pay with interest from the day they or either of them shall pay the same which when paid shall be considered as so much of the eight % ?? interest I may herein after give and bequeath to my Daughter Martha Sandeford and which to be added to any sum and a like interest I may pay of said debt aforesaid. Third I have given my son William Gardner two Negro girls Hester and Teresa commonly called Creesy Fourth I have given my Daughter Sarah Powell formerly Sarah Harris one Negro girl Kesiah and I now give her ten dollars Fifth I have given my Daughter Fannea Culpepper a Negro girl Lucy and I now give her a Negro man Jacob and an hundred dollars. Sixth I have given my son Elisha Gardner now deceased one Negro man Isaac Seventh I have given my Daughter Sacky Rushing one Negro girl Rachel and I now give her a Negro boy named Adam. Eighth I give my grandson Pryor Gardner son of Sterling Gardner deceased a Negro woman named Hannah and her child Isabel which were delivered to Sterling Gardner his father but to return and become part of my estate if the said Pryor Gardner shall die before he is twenty years of age. Ninth I have given my Daughter Polly P. Heath two Negroes Sealy and her child Clara and I now give her a Negro girl named Louisa. Tenth I have given Elizabeth Veazey a Negro woman named Phoebe and her increase now two children Louisa and Rany with one other Negro girl Biddy and I now give her a Negro girl Mourning. Eleventh I have given my granddaughter Anna P. J. (or I) R. Veazey one Negro girl named Vilet. Twelth All the balance of my estate whether of goods - chattels lands or tenements of whatsoever name I wish sold and the proceeds equally divided between the ________ as follows: Martha Sandeford William Gardner Fannea Culpepper Sackey Rushing Polly P. Heath Elizabeth Veazey Sarah Harris (daughter of Sarah Powell) provided nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to give my daughter Martha Sandeford anything till the debt and interest aforesaid is paid out of that part that would otherwise fall to her. Thirteenth I wish Henry Heath and John Veazey to execute this my last will as in other words I hereby nominate constitute and appoint Henry Heath and John Veazey executors of this my will and testament - hereby revoking all other wills by me made. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in presence of Mary R. Gibson Thomas Gibson and Obadiah C. Gibson who I have requested to attest the same as - Pryor Gardner (seal) Witnesses the first day of February 1827 Signed and Sealed Before us Thomas Gibson Obadiah C. Gibson Mary R. Gibson Codicil to the will of Pryor Gardner dated the first day of February 1827 made and executed after due deliberation as follows (viz) I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Veazey all the tract of land and improvements whereon I now live containing two hundred acres more or less on Long Creek adjoining the Lands of Jilson Berry and Asa McCrary together with all and singular the profits and improvements thereunto being or belonging to have and to hold forever provided she shall pay to my Executors six hundred dollars to be divided among the several persons named in the Twelth Item of my will to which this codicil is annexed as prescribed in said Item. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal December 26th 1828 Mary R. Gibson Pryor Gardner (seal) Sterling Gardner Thomas Gibson Probate to will Georgia Warren County Thomas Gibson you swear that you saw Pryor Gardner sign seal ______ and declare this _______ to be and contain his last will and testament that at the time thereof he was of sound disposing mind and memory and that he did it fully without compulsion to the best of your knowledge. So help you God. Sworn to in open court July 5th, 1830 Thomas Gibson Test T. Franklin Clerk c.o.w.e. Probate to Codicil Georgia Sterling Gardner and Thomas Gibson you swear that Warren Co you saw Pryor Gardner sign seal publish? And declare this writing to be and contain an amendment or codicil to his Last Will and Testament that at the time thereof he was of sound disposing mind and memory and that he did it freely without compulsion to the best of your knowledge. Sworn to in open court So help you God Test T. Franklin Clk _____ Sterling Gardner Thomas Gibson Recorded 13th September 1830 T. Franklin Clk