Washington County GaArchives Wills.....Dioclission (Diocletian) Davis May 5 1830
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Source: Washington Co., Georgia Will Book, pg. 61/62 on Microfilm Washington Memorial Library, Macon GA
Written: May 5 1830



I Dioclission Davis of the County of Washington & State of Georgia being weak 
in body but of sound and disposing mind & memory do make this my last will 
that is to say… 

1st.  I lend to my beloved wife Nancy during her natural life the following 
property to wit:  Rose the present cook woman, Peter & Hannah his wife and 
their children, Mary, Peter Junior also Clary a woman, Lucy a girl, May 
(Mary), Mariah, York, Caroline & <<can't read word>>children and Levi a man 
with the plantation whereon I now live, together with all my household & 
kitchen furniture and sufficient farming utensils for the purpose of carrying 
on the farm, and ten cows & calves and ten head of young cattle to be selected 
by my wife one yoke of oxen & cart & sufficient <<can't read one or two 
words>> fodder a plentiful supply for the first year and the expenses of the 
farm to be paid by my executors for the first year out of my estate, my wife 
is to have three head of horses to be chosen by herself & my gig if it is 
returned, if not one if to be purchased for her by my executors if she wishes 
it and the blacksmith tools is to be kept upon the plantation with the 
property left my wife & twenty head of sheep to be chosen by her. 

2nd I give to my son, Baldwin Davis, my Negro man, Ted to be delivered to him 
by my Executors after my death. 

3rd.  I give to my executors hereinafter to be named in trust for my daughter, 
Nancy, now Nancy Rushon, two negroes to wit, Adam, a boy and Nancy a girl 
during the natural life of my said daughter Nancy and to be delivered as 
hereinafter to be named. 

4th It is my will that at my death or soon thereafter as circumstances will 
admit to be judged of by my executors that all my Negroes not already willed 
away be equally divided by disinterested persons chosen by my executors in 
nine equal parts and then allotted off to my children by drawing each to have 
one part or lot. 

5th It is my will that all the balance of my property not willed away or to be 
divided both real and personal be sold by my executors as they shall think 
best and the money equally divided among my children or their Representative 
share and share alike except my son Goodram and he is to receive none until of 
the others shall receive one hundred and fifty dollars my son Goodram having 
had an old negro by the name of York. 

6th  It is my will that the property left my wife after her death be divided 
as the property in the foregoing section that is Negroes to be divided and the 
balance of the property both real & personal to be sold and the money divided 
as before stated and after the rest of my children shall have received the sum 
of one hundred and fifty dollars from the sale then my son Goodram to come in 
for an equal share of the balance. 

7th It is my will that all the property which shall fall to the use of my 
daughter Nancy of any description to be and the same if hereby given to my 
executors hereinafter to be named in trust for my same daughter during her 
natural life and to be equally divided among her children of my said daughter 
or their representatives share & share alike and it is my will that my 
executors have complete control of said property and that they have the power 
to provide an equal part of the profits of said property to and for the 
support of the child of my said daughter by her first husband John Guyton to 
wit, Tabitha Ann Guyton always having due regard to the members of the family. 

8th I nominate and appoint my son, John Davis and my son in law James Kendrick 
and John Juliet my executors to this my last will & testament with full power 
to arrange my personal as they may think proper and to carry this will into 
effect hereby revoking all other wills by me made and I do hereby proclaim and 
publish this to be my last will & testament. In witness whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and in the presence of Isham H. Saffold, James B. Smith, 
May (her X) Husky James Willis Baldwin M. Fluker James Jainer 

This the 5th May 1830.  Dioclission Davis


Additional Comments:
Dioclesean (Diocletian, Dioclission) "Dyer" Davis was born in Edgecombe Co., 
North Carolina September 19, 1754.  He died June 14 or 24, 1830 in Washington 
Co., Georgia.

He married Nancy Fluker in Bute Co., North Carolina, December 22, 1778.  Nancy 
was born in Northumberland Co., Virginia September 27, 1760.  She was the 
daughter of David Dudley Fluker III and Jemina Oldham. 

They had 10 or 11 children.  Nancy probably died by Nov. 14, 1844 when the 
Estate Returns for Diocletian and Nancy Davis are found on record in 
Washington Co.

There is no indication on the record of when this Will was recorded. However 
Letter of Admininstration was signed July 5, 1830 and submitted for record.

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