PICKENS COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - WILL OF CALEB BARTON - 1836


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CALEB BARTON WILL 

March 9, 1836

South Carolina, Pickens District. In the Name of God, Amen: I, Caleb Barton
of 
being of sound and disposing mind and memory but weak in body and caling
(sic) 
to mind the uncertainty of life and being disposed to dispose of all my such 
worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with doe make and ordain
this 
my last will in manner and form following, that is to say I desire 

that one negro girl Jane about fourteen years of age be immediately sold by
my 
executors according to law after my decease and out of the monies arising 
therefrom all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. 

And should it prove insufficient for the above purpose then I desire that my 
Executors hereinafter named may sell according to law a sufficiency of my
property 
and out of monies arising therefrom pay and satisfy such of my just debts as 
shall remain unpaid out of the sales of sd. property. After payment of my
debts 
and funeral expenses I give to my wife Sarah Barton that part of property
both 
real and personal for and during her natural life or widowhood the tract of
land 
whereon I now live containing two hundred and eighty acres, more or less,
including 
the house, household and kitchen furniture on said land. Also one other tract 
of land containing the above named tract. Also two lots of land numbers
twelve 
and thirteen containing two hundred acres more or less lying in the County of 
Franklin, State of Georgia, on the waters of Shoal Creek known as the Academy 
lands and one other lot in the State of Georgia number two hundred and 
twenty-four in the twelfth district of old Wilkerson. One negro man doctor
and 
four boys Sanford, John, Silas and Levi and two negro women Wing and Oney, 
and all of my stock hoarses (sic) cattle, hogs & sheep if any of the above
named 
property except the lands should become troublesome or expensive to my wife I 
authorize my Executors to advertise according to law and make sale of such
of my 
estate as I may leave in the hands of my wife, provided it becomes
troublesome 
or expensive to her or mismanageable, sold on a credit of twelve months and
when 
the money arising from such sales is collected to be paid over to my 
wife to dispose of as she may think proper in educating the younger children. 
I don't wish my Executors to advertise or sell my property without the
consent 
of my heirs.

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SOUTH CAROLINA, PICKENS DISTRICT. Be it remembered that the within will of 
Caleb Barton deceased was proven, approved and allowed of on the oath of 
Robert S. Hancock one of the subscribing witnesses to the said will on the 
9th day of March Anno Domini 1835. Examined and Recorded the ninth day of 
March 1835, and certified by me. Will Book I, pp 39 and 39 and 40. 
Signed: James H. Dendy, O.P.D.