Washington COUNTY  GA  Will  John Sparks

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John Sparks Will

Name of person: John Sparks
date of record: 20 Oct 1817; recorded (?) 4, 1859
Washington Co., Georgia
Wills book E 1852-1903
pp 125, 126, 127
(received from GA Archives Dec 1988)

State of Georgia
Washington  County

I John Sparks of the county and State of aforesaid, being at this time weak in 
calling to mind that I must one day die, do make this my last will and testament 
hereby revoking all others but as couching such things 
as I have been through Providence blessed with in this world do dispose in the 
following manner:

Impremis  My desire that all my debts be paid out of my estate.

Second, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas the whole of my land which I now possess 
and my negroes Pumpey, Nance, Eliza, Epheram & Jessy.

Third I give & bequeath to my daughter Sarah Ann Pinkston one dollar.

Fourth I give & bequeath to my daughter Mary May one dollar.

Fifth I give & bequeath to my daugther Rachel Gray one dollar.

Sixth I give & bequeath to my daugther Isabelle Wiggins one dollar.

Seventh I give & bequeath to my son Benjamin one dollar.

Eighth I give & bequeath to my daugther Margarett Renfro one dollar.

Ninth I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth a good feather bed and furniture 
three cows and three ewes and a breeding sow and a good horse saddle and bridle, a pot 
Dutch oven frying pand one pail and piggen one fire shovel and tongs.

Tenth I give and bequeath to my son Thomas together with the above mentioned legacy 
the remaining part of my stock of every kind, having parceled out a large distribution 
of my estate to my son Thomas. 

I desire and hereby enjoin on him or any other who may become an heir to this parat of 
this my estate.
When my grandson Stephen Sparks Wiggins shall arrive to the age of twenty one years 
that he give him one horse of common value.

Lastly I do hereby appoint Archibald McMillin executor of this my last will & 
testament, I do also appoint Nathaniel Wickes excecutor to this my last will & testament and my son Thomas to let into authority as 
Executor when he arrives at the age of twenty one years. 

Signed published & pronounced in the presense of us this 20th day of October 1817.
                                                    John Sparks

Eli Fenn
Ransom R. Lee
Eli Cumming

Georgia
I Francis T. Tenille Clerk of the Court of Ordinary certify the preceediing to be a 
true copy of the will of 
John Sparks dec'd taken from the original filed in office for recording 22 Dec 1820.
Francis T. Tenille  C Cl
Georgia 
Washington Co.
In person appeared Francis T. Tenille before me who being duly sworn deposeth and says 
that he believes this to be a true copy of the last will & testament of John Sparks 
given by him the said Tennille while Clerk of the Court of Ordinary the original of 
which was filed in office at the time for record and that the seal of 
the court as not thereto attached for the reason that at that time there was no seal.

Sandersville    March 17, 1829
Sworn to and subscribed before me Alexander Smith J. P.
Georgia Washington Co.

Personally appeared before me Thomas Sparks who being sworn deposeth and says that he 
was duly appointed executor of the last will & testament of John Sparks deceased by 
the said last will & testament and that he was duly qualified as such and further that 
said last will & testament has been destroy and that the copy thereto attached is a 
just & true one and was furnished to him by Francis T. Tenille on the 22nd day 
of Dec 1820 then being Clerk of the Court of  Ordinary of the county. Sworn to & 
subscribed before me 

this 4th  [1859 or 1839?]
[signed] Thomas Sparks
Jas. H. Gilmore  J. ? C.



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