The Will of John Waites, Putnam County, GA
Last Will & Testament of
John Waites, Putnam County, Georgia*
contributed by M.H. Waites, Clanton, AL
In the name of God Amen I John Waites of the State of Georgia and County of Putnum Planter Being Werey Sick & weake in or impurfect Health of Body but or and of perfect mind & memory Thanks be Given unto God, Calling unto mind & mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once for to be do make & ordain this my last will & testament that is today Principally & first of all I Give & to command my sole unto Hand of allmighty God that Gave it & my body, I | command to the Earth to be Buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executor nothing | but at the General Resurection I Shall | the Same or Gain by the might Power of God & as touching | worldly Estate wharwith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I Give & Desire & Dispose of the Same in the following manner & form, first I Give and bequeath to my Beloved Daughter Mary Singleton the Sum of two hundred & twenty five Dollars in Good and lawfull money Also I Give & bequeath to my beloved Son Samuel Waits Two hundred & twenty five Dollars of Good & lawfull money Also I Give to my beloved Daughter Nancy |Kylherd| the Sum of two hundred & twenty five Dollars in Good & Lawfull Money. Also I Give to my beloved Daughter Sarah Waits two hundred & twenty five Dollars of Good & lawfull money Also I to my beloved son John Waits the Sum of two hundred & twenty five Dollars of Good & lawfull money Also I Give to my beloved Son James Waits part of a Square of land lying in the Printunth District of Baldin County know by the number one hundrid and ninety Sevin begining at a Spring Branch running a South Corse to a Safrifris Stake then Turning nor west Corse to a post oake Corner or Corner of Same of the |Dyeriphtren| then turning East ward Course till it intersects with the Said Spring branch also I Give to my beloved Daughter Patience Waites a Negro Girl named bet with one feather Bed & furniture also I Give to my beloved Daughter Hester Waits one Negro Girl named Jin with one Feather bed and furniture Also I Give to my beloved Daughter Hannah Waits Two hundred & twenty five Dollars of Good & lawfull money Also I Give to my beloved wife Sary Waits the other part of sd Squar or tot of land being the other part that I Give James Waits above named with two Negros one fellow named Pomfrey & his wife Trude one Feather bed & furniture with all my household and | furniture with all my household and said part of tot of land that I Give unto my wife to my beloved Son Benjamin Waits the Negros & other bequeathed to my wife I desire at her Death on the Exspration of two years & Six months from the Date of this will to be Sold at publick Sail by the Discration of my Executor and all my other property that I have not mentioned this will I desire to be Sold at publick Sail by the Discration of my Excutors and all my other property that I have not mentioned in this Will I Desire to be Sold at the Same Time and the money Equally Divided amongst my above Named Children Also I Give to my well beloved Sons William Waits & James Waits whom I | constiture make & ordain the Sole Excutors of this my last will & testament by them them freely to be possessed and Injoyed & I do hearby utterly disallow Invoake and Dismantle all other former testamints will Legacies Bequests and Excruts by me in any ways before named to be my last will & testament in witness whereof I have herunto Set my hand & Seal this Seventeenth Day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Eight and in the thirty third year of the American Independance
Signed Sealed in the presants of
William Dawkins
John Waits
Thomas Finkler
*As filed at Jasper County Probate Court, Monticello, Georgia, 31064
