Wilkes County GaArchives Wills.....Colley, John February 27, 1834
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Marshall Styles marshallstyles@yahoo.com February 5, 2007, 8:35 am

Source: Wilkes County Returns Book 1830-1836
Written: February 27, 1834
Recorded: June 10, 1834

Inventory and Sale of John Colley Estate, Wilkes County, Georgia, Returns Book 
1830-1836, pages 315-318; Entered 27 February 1834 & 4 March 1834; Recorded 10 
June 1834.
John Colley is the son of Edward Colley & Mary Strong of Mecklenburg County, 
Virginia. Married Sarah France of Virginia, later of North Carolina.
Copied at the Wilkes County Courthouse in Washington, Georgia, September 2006, 
transcribed and [annotated] by Marshall Styles:

John Colley Estate
An Inventory of the negroes & Real Estate of John Colley, deceased, Sold at 
Public Sale on the Fourth day of March 1834 on a credit of 12 months ~
Welcome Fanning, 1 Tract of Land, 825 Acres  - $2751; [husband of Louisa 
Fanning; son-in-law of John Colley]
Spain Colley, negro man Hiram - $700; negro man Lott - $705; man Julius - $1; 
woman Nan - $186; girl Sidney - $210; [Sn of John Colley]
John Peteet, man Jacob - $701; boy David - $630; man Jerry - $235; woman Judy 
$5; [John Peteet / Perteet is son-in-law; husband of Elizabeth Colley]
Henry Pope, man York - $590
Benjamin Rice, man Guilford - $600
James V. Brown, man Jordan - $636; boy Stephen - $500; [Son-in-law; husband of 
Mary Colley]
Francis Colley, boy Eli - $421; boy Sam - $297; man Israel - $500; [Son of 
John Colley]
Welcome Fanning, girl Lamar(?) - $485
Total negroes & real estate $10157.00
{Signed} Frances Colley, Executrix
Recorded 10th June 1834
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An Inventory of the Personal Estate of John Colley, deceased, sold at public 
Sale on the twenty-seventh day of February 1834 on a credit of 12 months ~

[The total sale was only $221.75, covering more than 200 items. Rather than 
listing all of this, I have given the names of the buyers, and made an attempt 
to categorize his personal estate. – Marshall Styles]

Buyers, and their relationship to John Colley, if known:
Family members:
John Peteet or Perteet – Son-in-law
Spain Colley – Son
Francis Colley – Son
Frances Colley – Wife / Widow
Welcome Fanning – Son-in-Law
James V. Brown – Son-in-Law
Nancy Goolsby – Daughter, married Kirby Goolsby
Burwell Appling – Grandson-in-law, married Caltha Clementine Peteet, daughter 
of John Peteet and Elizabeth Colley

Other persons, partial listing:
William Shearer; James Armstrong; John W. Jones; Van Allen Echols; John G. 
Wright; William Brock; Henry Pope; Thomas R. Thurmond; John Wilkinson(?); 
Samuel Flournoy; Thomas Hendemon; Cozart Binns; Edward McDermot; Henry Harley; 
Henry Fennell; Samuel Rhodes; Caleb Saffington; Archibald Lyle; William 
Sutton; P. Aycock; Parker Callaway; Thomas R. Eidson; Ebenezer Smith; Robert 
Randolph

Partial Listing of Items Purchased by Family Members (much is unreadable):
John Peteet – 3 pair harnesses, log chain, Yoke Oxen ($19), heifer ($2.50), 1 
round table ($11), large basin ($1.56), side board ($1.31), 300 pounds bacon 
($33)
Spain Colley – 2 pair harnesses, 3 augers, Side board ($20), small table ($1), 
folding small table ($2.12), 1 lot glassware ($0.50), looking glass ($0.50); 
shot gun ($5), 300 pounds bacon ($35)
Francis Colley – 4 mattocks, 2 axes, 2 planes, shims, wedges, pot rack, Bay 
Mare ($74), cow and yearling ($4.75), branded cow and yearling ($4), 1 desk 
($20), large trunk ($0.12), flax _?_ ($1), 200 pounds bacon ($23), 141 pounds 
__?__ ($7.40)
Welcome Fanning – 2 young cows ($20), BIBLE ($3.63) [this is the Bible that 
was used to record the Colley & Fanning family births, deaths, marriages, that 
was incorporated into the Georgia Bible Records book.], 1 bed stead ($16.12), 
300 pounds bacon ($33)
James V. Brown – round table ($8.62), sugar canister ($1.37
Nancy Goolsby – large basin ($2.18)
Burwell Appling – 300 pounds bacon ($33)
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