Wilkes County GaArchives Wills.....Fanning, Welcome December 23, 1874
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Source: Wilkes County Deed Book 58; Pages 83, 84, 128
Written: December 23, 1874
Recorded: September 20, 1881

Estate of Welcome Fanning, Wilkes County, Georgia, Deed Book 58, pages 83, 84, 
128, 1874-1875. His son Bryan Fanning Administrator is the grantee.
Copied at the Wilkes County Courthouse in Washington, Georgia, September 2006, 
transcribed and [annotated] by Marshall Styles:

State of Georgia}
Wilkes County} This Indenture made the 23rd day of December in the year of our 
Lord One thousand Eight hundred & Seventy four, between F.H. [Frank Harris] 
Colley of said county of the first part and Bryan Fanning Administrator of 
Welcome Fanning of the same place of the second part. Witnesseth, that the 
said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of One 
thousand Dollars to him in hand well & truly paid by the said party of the 
second part, at and before the sealing & delivering of these presents the 
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, has granted, bargained, sold, 
delivered, conveyed and confirmed. . . unto the said party of the second 
part. . . all that tract of land lying & situate in said county on the waters 
of Fishing Creek adjoining lands of Robert Bunch, Lane Anthony & containing 
one hundred and fifty acres, more or less. Also, his interest in the Colley 
place [Franks’s deceased father Henry Francis Colley’s place?], lying & 
situate on Little River in said county adjoining lands of Hill, Moore, & 
Adams, & bounded by Little River amounting to one hundred & fifty acres, more 
or less. . . To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land and all and 
singular the premises and appurtenances. . . In witness whereof the said party 
of the first part has hereunto set his hand & seal the day & year first above 
written.
F.H. Colley{Seal}
Signed, Sealed & Delivered in the presence of W.A. Quinn, J.M. Dyson,
C.E. Wingfield, Court Judge
Recorded Jan’y 23d 1875
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State of Georgia}
Wilkes County} Know all men by these presents that I Bryan Fanning, 
Administrator, for value received hereby cause the deed given to me by F.H. 
[Frank Harris] Colley of a tract of land lying on Fishing Creek containing one 
hundred and fifty acres more or less & an interest in a tract of land lying on 
Little River back in said county, the latter tract containing twelve hundred 
acres more or less, the same having been deeded & conveyed to me as Security, 
Reconveying said lands to the said F.H. Colley by these presents.
Bryan Fanning {Seal}
Administrator Estate of Welcome Fanning
Signed Sealed & Delivered this 3rd day of July 1875 in the presence of Geo. 
Dyson, C.S.C., Wm. T. Anderson
Recorded July 8th 1875
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Wilkes County, Georgia, Deed Book 15, page 242, Estate of Welcome Fanning, 6 
May 1881.
Copied at the Wilkes County Courthouse in Washington, Georgia, September 2006, 
transcribed and [annotated] by Marshall Styles.

May Term 1881, Wilkes Superior Court
Friday May 6th 1881
Cozart Binns & Company}
Vs}
Bryan Fanning, Administrator &}
Webster Fanning} We the Jury – to Wit: 1 John T. Keough. 2 W.H. Scott. 3 
William Maxwell. 4 C.R. Strozier. 5 Samuel W. Shepherd. 6 F.W. Kendrick. 7 
William M. Hill. 8 William R. Echols. 9 L.M. Hill, Jr. 10 John E. Heard. 11 
Dudley Jones. 12 Rufus Z. Gresham, find and decree that the Bond for Titles 
made by Bryan Fanning Administrator to Webster Fanning on 7th May 1878 
conditioned to make titles to all that tract of land in Wilkes County, bounded 
by lands of Preston Harden, A.H. Cason, T.J. Beck and others containing Five 
hundred and Sixty three acres be and the same is hereby corrected so as to 
incorporate in the same as the promissory note therein referred to, the said 
note a copy of which is annexed to said Bill as Exhibit “B”; We further find 
and decree that the said Bryan Fanning as such Administrator do make a Deed to 
the said land above described to said Cozart Binns & Company to _?_ of said 
bond, they having fully complied with the conditions of said Bond as to 
payment of said note.
{Signed} Wm. Maxwell Foreman
Whereupon it is decreed that the verdict of the jury in the case be confirmed, 
and that the Bond for titles be reformed as specified in the verdict, and that 
said Bryan Fanning Administrator do make a deed to said land as provided in 
said verdict, and that defendant Bryan Fanning pay the costs.
{Signed} E.H. Pottle, Judge Superior Court N.C.
Recorded Sepr 20th 1881

[Note: Cozart Binns, Plaintiff, is not the same Cozart Binns (born 1886) the 
son of Enoch G. Binns and wife Frances Clifford Robert of Wilkes County.]
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