Wilkes County GaArchives Wills.....Colley, John January 6, 1823
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Marshall Styles marshallstyles@yahoo.com February 5, 2007, 8:29 am

Source: Wilkes County Deed Book Pp, Pages 380-382
Written: January 6, 1823
Recorded: March 11, 1836

Estate of John Colley, Wilkes County, Georgia, Deed Book PP, pages 380-382, 
1823-1836, distribution to John and Sarah’s children the portion of his estate 
which came into the hands of Sarah upon his death in 1815. It is unclear why 
Welcome Fanning, a son-in-law, was the recipient of the distribution rather 
than his wife, Louisa Colley Fanning, daughter of John and Sarah. The 
remaining children named below personally made their own acknowledgment.
Copied at the Wilkes County Courthouse in Washington, Georgia, September 2006, 
transcribed & [annotated] by Marshall Styles:

Francis Colley, Executor of John Colley Dec’d, has placed in my possession all 
the estate both real and personal and every thing else he was bound to do in 
Full of the legacy coming to me under the Will of said deceased.
January 6th 1823. {Signed} Sarah Colley

Received of Francis Colley Executor of John Colley dec’d the sum of seventeen 
hundred & seventy two dollars & sixteen cents in full for my distributive 
share of the estate of said John Colley, both real & personal. And I do hereby 
bind myself my heirs Executors & Administrators to pay to said Executor my 
proportionate part of all debts which may hereafter come against said Estate 
and that said call(?) as Executor may be compelled to pay. Witness my hand & 
seal this 11th day of April 1835 {Signed} Welcome Fanning {Seal}
Acknowledged before me Rayland Beasley JP

Received of Francis Colley, Executor of the Estate of John Colley Dec’d 
seventeen hundred and seventy two dollars in full of my distributive share of 
the estate of said John Colley dec’d both real and personal. And I do hereby 
bind myself my heirs Executors & Administrators to pay to said Executor my 
proportionate part of all debts which may hereafter come against the estate of 
said John Colley and as that said Executor may have to pay. Witness my hand & 
Seal this 23 day of April 1835 {Signed} Mary Brown {Seal}
Acknowledged before me Rayland Beasley JP

$1772.16. Received of Francis Colley Executor of John Colley deceased 
seventeen hundred and seventy two dollars in full of my distributive share of 
the estate of John Colley dec’d both real and personal, and I do hereby bind 
myself my heirs Executors & Administrators to pay unto the said Executor my 
proportionate part of all debts demands or due that may come against said 
estate and to _?_ of said Executor, in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and seal this thirteenth day of May 1835. {Signed} Spain Colley {Seal}
Andrew Caldwell & John Jesse JP}}

Nov 14th  1835. Received of Sarah Colley in her lifetime the following 
articles which I now acknowledge as part of my distributive share of her 
estate to wit – 1 cow & calf, waggon wheels, 4 __?__ @ 37-1/2 cents. Total 
$12.00. {Signed} Spain Colley

Nov 14th 1835 Received of Sarah [Colley was omitted] in her lifetime the 
following assets which I now acknowledge as part of my distributive share of 
her estate to wit, 1 Negro woman Mary $400, 4 chairs $4.00, Total $404.00. 
{Signed} Welcome Fanning

Nov 14th. Received of Sarah Colley in her lifetime the following articles 
which I now acknowledge as part of my distributive share of her estate, to 
wit, 1 old Clock 50 cents. {Signed} Elizabeth Peteet

Nov 14th 1835. Received of Sarah Colley in her lifetime the following assets 
which I now acknowledge as my part of my distributive share of her estate, to 
wit, 1 cow $10, 3 Heifers $21; 1 old wheel [spinning wheel?], 1 tract of land 
202-1/2 acres in Troup County, $341, 2 young sows & 1 pig $3.50 [other items 
which I could not read], Total $341. {Signed} Francis Colley

Nov 14th 1835. Received of Sarah Colley in her lifetime the following assets 
which I now acknowledge as part of my distributive share of her estate, to 
wit, 1 Negro Girl named Milley, 4 years old, $150.00; 1 trunk $2.50, 1 stone 
jar $1.00, Cash $20.00, Total $173.50. {Signed} Nancy Goolsby

Nov 14th 1835. Received of Sarah Colley in her lifetime the following articles 
which I now acknowledge as part of my distributive share of her estate, to 
wit, $20 Cash, Carding machine [for cotton] $1.50, Candle Mould, 12 cents 
[other items which I could not read], Total $81.62 {Signed} Mary Brown

Georgia}
Wilkes County} Personally appeared before me the within named  persons to wit: 
Francis Colley, Elizabeth Peteet, Nancy Goolsby, Mary Brown, Welcome Fanning 
and Spain Colley, distributees of the Estate of Sarah Colley deceased who on 
their sound oaths says that the within and foregoing is a complete statement 
of all the property they rec’d of Sarah Colley in her lifetime __?__ render an 
account to the administrator to the best of their recollection and belief.
Francis Colley {Seal}
Elizabeth Peteet {Seal}
Mary Brown {Seal}
Nancy Goolsby {Seal}
Spain Colley {Seal}
Welcome Fanning {Seal}
Sworn to before me this 16th November 1835, Rayland Beasley JP

Georgia}
Wilkes County} $1412.16 Received of Francis Colley, Executor of John Colley 
deceased the sum of fourteen hundred and twelve dollars and sixteen cents in 
full of my distributive share of the estate of said John Colley deceased both 
real and personal and I do hereby bind myself my heirs, Executors & 
Administrators to pay to the said Executor my proportionate part of all debts 
demands or dues which may hereafter come against said estate and which said 
Executor may be compelled to pay. Witness my hand & seal this twenty second 
day of December 1835 {Signed} John Peteet {Seal}
Test, Thomas Anderson

Georgia}
Wilkes County} Received of Francis Colley administrator of the Estate of Sarah 
Colley dec’d two hundred and one dollars & seventy cents in full of my 
proportionate share of said estate, And I hereby _?_myself to refund to said 
Administrator my proportionate part of all debts demands or dues that may be 
hereafter recover of said Estate as Witness my hand and seal this 22nd 
December 1835 {Signed} Welcome Fanning
Test, Thos. Anderson

Recorded 11th March 1836
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