From no current email Tue Dec 14 14:03:04 1999
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:43:09 -0500
From: Jim Willoughby <no current email address>
To: dmorgan@efn.org
Subject: Will of William WILLOUGHBY 

David, will you please post this for me on Chambers Co pg. Thanks,
jim

Two of William's sons, Thomas and George, moved from Georgia to Chambers
County Alabama around 1830. Their descendants included William Thomas
Willoughby and Rhodes Goodrich Willoughby of Chambers County.
The married into the Smith, Lee, Leverette, and Gates families.


Will of William  Willoughby 1759-1829 Clark CO Georgia

I , William Williby of the state and county aforesaid being of sound and
disposing mind and memory do make this my last will and testament (wit)
1. It is my bid that all my debts be paid.
2. I give and bequeath unto my sons Thomas F and David Williby one tract
of land in the fourteen district of Dooly county number one hundred and
eighty in addition to what I have already them.
3. I give unto the children of my son William B. Williby, dec, one tract
of land in the second district of Dooley county, numbering sixth four
acres.
4. I give to William Giles, my Son in law, a certain tract of land
whereon he now live, bounded as follows, beginning at the stake in the
plantation whereon I now live and near where said Giles lives,running a
straight line east to an oak on Thurmonds line and thence with Thurmonds
line to my back line and then with the old county to an oak corner and
thence in a straight line to the beginning corner a stake, containing
one hundred acres more of less
5. I have given to my son Robert Williby by deed a tract of land whereon
he now live containing eighty acres more or less
6. I have given to my son in law Nathaniel Pridgeon one Negro girl by
the name of Mary.
7. I give unto my son George, and Son Randle for five years, the land
and plantation whereon I now live together will all my stock of every
kind and kitchen furniture, plantation tools, cotton gin, and my Negro
man Hampton, and negro woman Hannah, and at the expiration of the said
five years, the land to equally between my four sons James, Ellis,
George and Randle-and all my property named in this clause and not
otherwise disposed to be sold and the money equally divided among all my
children, and the children of my son William B. Williby dec and if my
Son Ellis should marry the division of the land or should wish to settle
he is at liberty to do so on the land provided he does no interfere with
the plantation.
8. I give to my daughter Agnes, one Negro boy by the name of John
9. I give to my daughter Elizabeth one Negro girl by the name of
Charity.
10 It is will that the expiration of five years after my death, in
addition the remainder of the property left, my sons George and Randle
should each receive a horde of the value of eighty dollars.
11. I give to my two daughters Agness and Elizabeth all my household
furniture, after give to George and Randle one bed  and furniture for
chairs and a table, knives and forks and spoons and plates for them to
use, and at the division the articles given to them in the clause to be
sold and the money applied in the seventh blank
12. if either of my unmarried children should marry before the division
of my estate, it is my will that my Executor hereafter named should give
each child or children such part of my stock as can be spared from the
plantation if in his judgment it will not injure the interest of George
and Randle, taking care to leave them a sufficiency  and no more.
13. I give to George and Randle Williby on lot of land in the County of
Troup Sixth District drawn by me as a revolutions soldier in addition to
what I have given in this will.
14. I hereby give the guardianship of the person and property of two
sons George and Randle to my son David Williby, for my George during his
minority and believing that Randle not be capable or capable of managing
his own property. It is my that my son David Williby have the control of
his property and manage it for him unless he should tome time in the
future period be of an opinion that he is capable of acting for himself
in that case he mad his property to him.
I do here appoint my son David Williby and John H. Lowe, my Executors to
this my last will and testament and in witness where I have hereunto set
my hand and seal this 24 day of January 1827. William Williby (his mark)
in the presence of Cyrus Baldwin unreadable Jones, and John Jacks.
        Nov Term, 1829 Examined, approved and ordered to be recored.
Recorded the 10th Nov., 1829.