Source: Probate Court, Wilkinson
County, Record Of Returns 1820-1853, Pages 21, 22.
Written: April 3 1817
Recorded: July 1821
"In the name of God, amen!
Knowing all flesh to be subject to death, and being anasarcal? and looking
shortly for a change, have a desire to distribute my worldly property while
sound in mind. My first request is that my body be decently buried
without superfluity; the next, that my debts be justly paid that are just,
and then as my wife and myself drew a contract before marriage, that is,
that she set up no claim to my property, nor I myself as heir set up any
right to hers, but at my death deliver all of property to her and then
I lend her during life or widowhood the land from the cut-off along this
side the lanenext next to the house, with the use of the spring and all
houses and cleared land, and also Jack and Arey and family, with cattle,
hogs, corn and fodder to serve the first year, or her hundred dollars as
the contract called for, but the land is not to be rented, nor the negroes
to be hired, but the whole of my property left togeher until my wife's
death, then to be divided as follows:
I give my son Richard's three
daughters Jene, Mary and Judy, one hundred dollars each of them. My daughter
Rose, I give the young mare I left with her, and ten dollars. My
daughter Elizabeth, I give the horse I left with her and ten dollars. My
daughter Anne, I give ten dollars. My sons, Charles and Benjamin,
I give to each of them ten dollars apiece.
Now for the remainder of my
children, Judith, Mary, Behethland, and Lucy, I lend during their natural
lives, but to be divided as follows: Lucy is to have the land from
the cut-off down each branch to the lines next to Joe Jones, then from
the cut-off along the lane next to their house to the spring, with the
care of my old wench Sabrina, then I lend her during her natural life,
my wench Betty and her children, but the whole of the property at her death
that is mentioned, to her children, except Sabrina which is to possess
her house and property.
As for the remaining part
of my property, I lend during life to my other three daughters, Judith,
Mary and Behethland, but the property I give to their children. After the
death of my wife, the whole of my property is to be sold by giving such
credit as it will bring the most and after collected equal distribution
made the legatees.
Now for the true performance
for my last will and testament I leave my beloved friend Gen. John Scott,
John L. Jones and Elijah Lingo. And I do revoke all other wills and
leave this as my will and testament. In witness whereof, I have set my
hand the third day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and seventeen.
/S/ John Taliaferro (Dr.)
Wit:
James Rabb
Robert Hatcher
Thomas Boazman
Pierce Clay
Additional Comments:
*Will submitted for probate
during the July, 1821 term of Ordinary's Court, Wilkinson County.
Record of Returns, pages 37-38 for 1821 appears record of sale of his property
and appraisers' returns of estate of John Taliaferro.
*1st marriage: Wife,
Mary Hardin md. ca. 1755. (Daughter of Henry and Judith (Lynch) Hardin.
*2nd marrige: supposedly--Lydia
Howard in 1814 of Baldwin County, Georgia *He and Lydia are supposedly
buried in Mt. Nebo Cemetery in Wilkinson County. (We cannot verify their
burial place.)
*Source: Historic Georgia
Families,pages 120,121,122,141. Compiled by L. W. Rigsby, (Originally Published--Cairo,
Georgia, 1925-1928) Copyright 1969, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore,
Maryland.
*Source: On-site research
-- Probate Court, Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Georgia.
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Note: Re:
Dr. John and his wife Mary (Hardin) Taliaferro's daughter~~Rose:
Rose Taliaferro md. Joseph Porter (Settled in Wilkinson County)
Their son, Richard Taliaferro Porter md. Mary Collins Paul
(Moved to Alabama)
Their daughter, Eliza Ann Porter md. Alexander Stuckey (Residence:
Wilkinson County)
contributed by and copyright
R. Elizabeth Brewer 2004