NANCE In Georgia Wills

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WILL OF JOHN NANCE, CLARKE COUNTY, GEORGIA BOOK D PAGE 93.

I, JOHN NANCE, OF THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID, BEING IN FEEBLE HEALTH, BUT IN SOUND ,IND AND MEMORY, AND KNOWING THAT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN ONCE TO DIE AND HAVING FAITH IN THE REDEEMER OF SINFUL AND HOPE THROUGH HIS MERITS OF A PART IN HIS GLORIOUS RESURRECTION. I DO MAKE AND ORDAIN THAT AS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT HEREBY REVOKING ALL OTHER WILLS HERETOFORE MADE BY ME.

HAVING FEW OR NO DEBTS TO PAY AND WISHING TO DO JUSTICE TO ALL MY

CHILDREN, I STATE THAT WHAT I HAVE HERETOFORE DONE FOR THEM AND EACH OF THEM I CONSIDER AS PUTTING UPON EQUAL FOOTING, AND NOTHING HERETOFORE GIVEN TO ANY OF MY LEGATEES IS TO BE CONSIDERED AS AN ADVANCEMENT, BUT EACH LEGATEE IS TO KEEP AND ENJOY WHAT HAS HERETOFORE BEEN RECEIVED AND IS NOT TO ACCOUNT FOR THE SAME. I WISH FURTHER TO STATE THAT THE TWO NEGROES GIVEN BY ME TO MY DAUGHTER SARAH McALPHIN AFTER HER MARRIAGE WERE BOUGHT BY HER HUSBAND ALEXANDER McALPHIN WITH HER OWN MONEY AND ALTHOUGH THE TRANSACTION WAS IN MY OWN NAME, THE MONEY AND THE NEGROES NEVER BELONGED TO ME OR CONSTITUTED ANY PART OF MY ESTATE. I FURTHER STATE THAT THE HOUSE AND LOT IN ATHENS WHEREON WILLIAM S. WEATHERLY LIVES WAS PAID FOR BY HIM AND THE DEED OF THE SAME MADE BY ME TO HIS WITH HIS CONSENT AND THAT SAID LOT IS NO PART OF MY ESTATE AND WAS NOT ADVANCEMENT TO HIM OR ANY OF HIS CHILDREN HE HAVING PAID FOR IT HIMSELF OUT OF HIS EARNINGS BY PAYING OFF FROM TIME TO TIME THE NOTE IN BANK ON WHICH THE MONEY WAS BORROWED TO BUY THE LOT.

HAVING MADE THE FOREGOING STATEMENTS, MY WILL AND DESIRE IS THAT MY CHILDREN: REUBEN, NANCY, SARAH EUNICE, WESLEY, MADISON, ELIZABETH, AND MARY ANN, AND MY GRANDCHILDREN THOMAS CRAWFORD AND SARAH ANN PARK, CHILDREN OF MY DECEASED DAUGHTER SUSA, COUNTING AS ONE LEGATEE, MAKING NINE SHARES, EQUALLY POSSESS, HAVE AND ENJOY MY ESTATE REAL, PERSONAL, AND MIXED OF EVERY KIND AND DESCRIPTION, SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE. MY FURTHER WILL IS THAT MY EXECUTORS IN DISPOSING OF MY NEGROES ARE NOT TOO SELL THEM SO AS TO PRODUCE SEPARATION OF HUSBANDS AND WIFE EVEN IF THEY HAVE TO SELL ANY OF THEM AT A SACRIFICE.

I NOMINATE AND APPOINT MY SON-IN-LAW ARCHIBALD MOON AND SON, WESLEY NANCE, EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 25th DAY OF OCTOBER 1855.

WITNESS: WM. L. MITCHELL,
JOHN NANCE (SEAL)

WILLIAM HALE

JAMES R. HALE. PROBATED MAY 5, 1862

An Inventory of the Personal Property of Elizh Harrison Columbia Co, GA Estate Records, Inv & Apprs., pg 563)

Folding table walnut Thomas Dooly $3.93 3/4
tea table B. H. Embree 1.43 3/4
candle stand John Reynolds .68 3/4
large table pair B. H. Embree
small table pair Mary K. Embree 1.93 1/2
slab table/cupboard John Reynolds 4.06
curtain bedstead/ bedstead low B. H. Embree 2.93
Book Case R. H. Jones, large chest walnut Jno. Reynolds 4.37
6 winsor chairs Mary K. Embree 7.50, 2 common chairs Jno. Reynolds $.56
trunk Jno. Reynolds 2. 06, trunk Mary K. Embree 1.56
trunk Jno. Reynolds 1.06, tea chest Mary K. Embree 1.56
tea chest George Darsey 3. 76, large waiter Mary K. Embree 6.27
large waiter George Darsey .37, 2 waiter Mary K. Embree .31
large basket B. H. Embree .43, small basket Mary K. Embree .31
straw basket Benjamin Watkins .25, large chest Jno. Reynolds 1.31
large chest Guilford Alford .25, large trunk G. Alford .67
pair hand irons Benjamin Watkins .25
2 large bowls B. H. Embree .81, coffee pot Guilford Alford .50
lot of crockery Guilford Alford .93, lot of crockery George Darsey 1.61
water pail Benj. Watkins .31, bed furnishes Leroy Nance? 9.00
bed furnishes B. H. Embree 10.25, quilt Mary K. Embree 2.75
quilt Mary K. Embree 1.62, quilt B. H. Embree 2.75
quilt J. C. Smith 2.00, quilt J. C. Smith 2.00
quilt Benj. Watkins 1.62, quilt Benj. Watkins 1.56
counterpane J. C. Smith 2.75, counterpane Leroy Nance 2.81
counterpane Thomas Dooly 3.75, counterpane Mary K. Embree 2.87
counterpane Guilford Alford 4.00, counterpane Mary K. Embree 1.93
counterpane Sulivan Harrison 2.00, counterpane J. C. Smith 1.81
pair counterpane B. H. Embree 6.87, 1 pair sheets M. K. Embree 1.93
1 pair sheets Mary K. Embree 1.37, 1 pair sheets Benj. Watkins 1.62
1 tub B. H. Embree .31, 1 oven B. H. Embree 1.25
1 pot J. C. Smith .31, lot trewpers? B. H. Embree .69
1 band box Elizabeth Watkins .69, 1 pr sheets B. H. Embree .56
22 lbs bacon Beverly Spivey 2.67, 35 lbs bacon B. H. Embree 3.63
36 lbs bacon B. H. Embree 6.26

We hereby certify the foregoing to be a true account for amount of the sales of the estate of Elizabeth Harrison deceased sold on 15 day of June 1829 on a credit of six months.
Given under my hand this 10th day of March 1830.
B. H. Embree
John C. Smith

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