Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....King, Anna Matilda 1857 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 June 4, 2005, 4:51 pm Source: Will Book Written: 1857 Will Book G pages 48-50 I Anna Matilda King, wife of Thomas Butler King, of St. Simons Island in the County of Glynn and State of Georgia being entitled to considerable real and personal estate under the will of my late Father Major William Page who by his last Will and Testament devised and bequeathed to Joseph Jones and James Hamilton Couper in trust for my sole and separate use and not subject to the debts of my said husband all the within hereafter described Real estate and fifty negro slaves named in the said Will and which by Natural increase and by purchase from the income of said separate Estate now amount to the number of one hundred and thirty three and being of sound mind and disposing memory and desirous of [illegible word] for the final disposition of my said estate and of all my worldly affairs do make and publish this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and annulling all and every Will or Wills heretofore at anytime made by me. In the first place I give devise and bequeath all thou? [illegible word] Plantations situate lying and being on St. Simons Island in the said County of Glynn and State of Georgia whereof my said Father died seized and [illegible word] and since his death in my possession and use with all the Buildings and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any manner appertaining. And also all those following named negro Slaves being One Hundred and Thirty Three in number to wit Toney, Jane, Bella, Jane Jr., Toney Jr., Lady, Alice, Boyd, Ellen, Jannet, Hannah, Charlotte, Julia, Abel, Patience, John, Betty, Louisa, Marcia, Quamina, Boney, Abraham, Nellar, Flora, Lizzie, Henrietta, Anthony, Hercules, Ferdinand, Mack, Amey, Ella, Clair?, Prince, Ruthy, George, James, Sam, Julia, Ann, Balam, Mina, Betty Jr., Nancy, Mack?, Matilda, Cilla, Maria Junior, Nelly, Abegail, Maria, Myrtida, Emily, Henry, Augusta, Rhina, Annie, William, Alfred, Peter Jr., Pupy?, Charles, Clementine Middleton, Christian, Isabel, Justina, Ellnora, Nora, James or Jimpa, Ila, Linda, Abner, Liddy, Frederick, Adelet, Sander, Neptune, Ned, Alic Jr., Patience, Betty or Lucinda, Alic 3rd, Clara, Fishu?, Ruthy Jr., Davison, June, Suckey, Camilla, Mordena, Miley, Emoline, Richard, Nancy, Robert, Richard Jr., Mary, Elizabeth, Ansel, Gabrael, Victoria, Nathaniel, Harper, Jerry, Smart, Rose, Charles Junior, William Jr., Caesar, Sye, Rosa, Mary, Wylly, Joseph, Joe, Edenborough, Sarah, Toby, Ned Jr., Margaret, Laura, Clementine Jr., Binah, Ishmael, Frank, Hercules, Peter, Polly, John Jr., William 3rd, Adam, and Albert, with the future [illegible word] and increase of the female slaves. And also all other property and estate of every kind and description which I may hereafter purchase or if which I may be seized and possessed at the time of my death, to all my Children who may be living at the time of my death to them and their heirs forever, equally to by divided between them, share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants the child or children of any deceased child to take the share to which the parent would have been entitled of in life. Lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my Husband Thomas Butler King my son Thomas Butler King, Jr., and my friends William Audley Couper and James Hamilton Couper Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty seven. Anna Matilda King {seal} Signed Sealed Published and delcared by the said Anna Matilda King as and for her Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each Other have hereunto sat our names as witnesses. V. Woolley D. Macdonald Jno. Fraser Georgia } Glynn County } Personally appeared before me Stephen Gorton ordinary in and for the County aforesaid, Vardy Woolley, who deposeth & with that he saw Anna Matilda King execute the foregoing instrument of writing, which she declared to be her last Will & Testament & he signed the same as Witness in the presence of the others and he said, D. Macdonald, and Jno. C. Fraser, do the same. Sworn to before Me this} 4th day of October A.D.} Vardy Woolley 1859 } Stephen J. Gorton Ordinary, G.C. Additional Comments: Amy Hedrick OR Glynn County Genealogy & History Website OR File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ga/glynn/wills/king290gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.2 Kb