No problem, I am going to copy and paste them
into this email and you can view them then. You may have to
print this email out in order to read it more easily. Hope
this helps. Remember, I got this off
Ancestry.com.
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THIS WILL WAS LOCATED ON MICROFILM
IN THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY.
IT IS IN DRAWER 108, BOX 19 BEGINNING ON PAGE 139
THROUGH 143. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO READ
AND BECAUSE OF THAT I HAVE ATTEMPTED TO TRANSCRIBE IT TO A
MORE READABLE FORM. THERE ARE MANY SPELLING
ERRORS OR PERHAPS WORDS WERE SPELLED A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY IN
1821. I HAVE NOT CORRECTED ANY SPELLING AND
HAVE TRIED TO TRANSCRIBE IT AS WRITTEN.
THERE ARE SOME PUZZLING ASPECTS SUCH AS THE USE OF “DO”
THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENT. I BELIEVE THIS WAS
USED AS “DITTO” BECAUSE OF THE PLACEMENT OF THIS WORD IN THE
DOCUMENT. IN ADDITION TO “DO” DITTO MARKS (
“ ) WERE ALSO USED. FOLLOWING IS THE WILL
OF JAMES MILLER, SR.
IIN THE NAME OF GOD,
AMEN. I, JAMES MILLER, SON OF THE COUNTY OF
HANCOCK
AND
STATE OF GEORGIA BEING IN PERFECT
HEALTH AND IN SOUND MIND AND MEMORY DO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL
AND TESTAMENT.
ITEM
1ST.
I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH ONE HUNDRED POUNDS
NORTH CAROLINA CURRENCY WHICH MONEY SHE HAS ALREADY
RECEIVED.
ITEM
2ND.
I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER POLLY TOWNSEND ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS NORTH CAROLINA CURRENCY WHICH MONEY SHE HAS ALREADY
RECEIVED.
ITEM
3RD.
I GIVE UNTO MY SON JAMES MILLER, JR.
ONE HUNDRED POUNDS NORTH CAROLINA CURRENCY WHICH MONEY
HE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED.
ITEM
4TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY SON JOHN MILLER ONE HUNDRED POUNDS NORTH
CAROLINA CURRENCY WHICH MONEY HE HAS ALREADY
RECEIVED.
ITEM
5TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY SON ELIJAH MILLER ONE HUNDRED POUNDS
NORTH CAROLINA CURRENCY WHICH MONEY HE HAS ALREADY
RECEIVED.
ITEM
6TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER SUSANNAH MILLER ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS NORTH CAROLINA CURRENCY WHICH MONEY SHE HAS ALREADY
RECEIVED.
ITEM
7TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY SON THOMAS MILLER ONE HUNDRED POUNDS
NORTH CAROLINA CURRENCY WHICH MONEY HE HAS ALREADY
RECEIVED.
ITEM
8TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER NANCY WAD FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS
TOGETHER WITH THE ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS SHE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED
- AFTER MY DEATH.
ITEM
9TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER KESIAH AVRETT FOUR HUNDRED AND
ELEVEN DOLLARS ON THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS, TO WIT, I OR MY
ESTATE DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A CERTAIN NOTE OF HAND GIVEN BY ME
TO SAID AVRETT ON THE 19TH DAY AUGUST 1820 MADE PAYABLE ONE
DAY AFTER DATE FOR SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS TAKEN AS HER PART OF MY
ESTATE AS A LIGATER TAKEN WHEN I WAS OUT OF MY SENSES THE
ABOVE SUM OF FOUR HUNDRED AND ELEVEN DOLLARS TO BE PAID AT MY
DEATH ON THE ABOVE CONDITIONS.
ITEM
10TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER RHODA CURETON FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS WHICH MONEY SHE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED.
ITEM
11TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER LUCY COOK FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
WHICH MONEY SHE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED.
ITEM
12TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER SARAH BLOUNT FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS WHICH MONEY SHE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED.
ITEM
13TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY SON SOLOMON MILLER FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
WHICH MONEY HE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED.
ITEM
14TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY SON HIRAM MILLER FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
WHICH MONEY HE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED.
ITEM
15TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY SON WILLIAM MILLER ONE HUNDRED AND
THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS TOGETHER WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE
DOLLARS THAT HE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED TO BE PAID AT MY
DEATH.
ITEM
16TH.
I GIVE UNTO MY SON ROLLEY MILLER FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
AND ONE BED AND FURNITURE.
ITEM
17TH
I LEAVE TO MY WIFE, LEANNAH MILLER THE FOLLOWING PIECE
OF LAND BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS BEGINNING ON A WHITE OAK ON
DICKSONS LINE ON THE BRANCH, THENCE SOUTH TO A BRANCH THAT
EMPTIES INTO THE SOUTH FORK OF DRY CREEK AND TO ITS SOURCE,
THENCE UP SAID FORK TO MASONS LINE ON SAID CREEK THENCE MASONS
LINE TO DICKSONS CORNER ON MASONS LINE THENCE ALONG DICKSONS
LINE EASTWARDLY TO THE BEGINNING SUPPOSED TO BE 80 OR 90 ACRES
AND ONE NEGRO GIRL KNOWN BY THE NAME OF ANN, ONE HORSE, BRIDLE
AND SADDLE, HER CHOICE OF HORSES, TWO COWS, HER CHOICE TWO
BEDS AND FURNITURE UNTIL ROLLEY MILLER COMES OF AGE OR MARRIES
THEN ONE OF 8 BEDS TO HIM AS ABOVE LEFT HIM, TWO SOWS HER
CHOICE AND A REASONABLE SUPPORT OF CORN AND MEAT FOR THE
ENSURING YEAR FROM MY DEATH AND A REASONABLE PROPORTION OF THE
HOUSEHOLD & KITCHEN FURNITURE TO SERVE TO KEEP A HOUSE ON,
PROVIDED I DO NOT MOVE ON THE LAND I LOAN HER IN MY LIFE TIME
SHE IS TO HAVE A COMFORTABLE CABIN BUILT OUT OF MY ESTATE ON
SAID LAND.
ITEM
18TH.
IT IS MY WILL THAT THE BALANCE OF MY REAL AND PERSONAL
ESTATE BE SOLD AS SOON AS THE LAW ADMITS IN SUCH CASES AND THE
MONEY ARISING FROM SAID SALES, FIRST TO PAY ALL MY JUST DEBTS
THEN IF THERE SHOULD BE MONEY SUFFICIENT PAY OFF THE LIGATES
AGREEABLE TO THE TENOR OF THIS WILL THEN SHOULD THERE BE ANY
MONEY LEFT TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE HEIRS OF MY
WIFE’S BODY.
ITEM
19TH.
AT MY WIFE’S DEATH THE WHOLE OF THE PROPERTY I LEND HER
BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL IS TO BE SOLD AND THE MONEY EQUALLY
DIVIDED BETWEEN HER CHILDREN BUT, PROVIDED NEVER THE
LESS SHOULD THE LIGATES NOT GET THEIR
PROPORTION AGREEABLE TO THE TENOR OF THIS WILL IT MUST BE MADE
UP OUT OF THOSE LAST DIVIDENDS AND THEN THE BALANCE DIVIDED
EQUALLY BETWEEN HER CHILDREN.
ITEM
20TH.
I CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT MARK GORDES, HENRY
W. LATIMER, SOLOMON MILLER AND
THOS. I. LATIMER MY
EXECUTORS TO THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT AND I DO HEREBY
DISMISSED AND MAKE VOID ALL OTHER WILL
OR WILLS MADE BY ME PRYOR TO THIS MY
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
IN
WRITINGS THEREOF I HAVE HEREWITH SET MY
HAND AND SEAL THIS FOURTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1821.
SIGNED AND
SEALED
JAMES
MILLER
SEAL
IN PRESENCE OF
WILLIAM C.
SMITH
EDWARD LATIMER
LITTLETON BELCHER
GEORGIA
INFERIOR COURT SITTING FOR ORDINARY PURPOSES
13TH
HANCOCK COUNTY
MAY 1822.
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JAMES
MILLER SR WAS DULY PROVEN IN OPEN COURT BY THE OATHS OF
WILLIAM C. SMITH AND EDWARD LATIMER WHO
ALSO TESTIFY THAT THEY SAW LITTLETON BELCHER SUBSCRIBE THE
SAME AS A WRITING IN PRESENCE OF THE TESTATOR - WHEREUPON IT
IS ORDERED THAT SAID WILL BE RECORDED AND THAT LETTERS
TESTAMENTARY BE GRANTED TO THOMAS L.
LATIMER ONE OF THE NOMINATED EXECUTORS BY SAID DECD..:
IN SAID WILL - TO WHOM AFTER BEING DULY QUALIFIED, LETTERS
WERE GRANTED ACCORDINGLY.
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IN INVENTORY AND APPRAISEMENT
OF ALL THE GOODS AND CHATTELS BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF JAMES
MILLER DECD. TAKEN THIS 8TH DAY JUNE
1822
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 YOKE OXEN
APPRAISED
50.00
1 BRINDLE COW &
YEARLING
10.00
1
RED
“
12.00
1
WHITE
“
10.00
1 WHITE FACE
HEIFER
7.00
1 SMALL
RED
“
$
4.00
1
CART
$25.00
29.00
25 HEAD
GEESE
12.50
1?? WHEEL &
HANDLE
6.00
18.50
1 BED &
FURNITURE
30.00
1
DO
25.00
55.00
34 LB LARD @ .18
3/4
6.37 ½
1 LOT PLOW ATOG
3.00 1
CUTTING BOX & KNIFE
4.00
7.00
4 GREEN?? COW
HIDES
3.00 1 DOG
CHAIN
1.00
11.00
3 BARRELS & 2 BREAD
TRAYS
1.00
1 ??
&
POT
5.00
1
CHURN
2.00
7.00
1 TABLE
1.50
1 PEWTER
BASIN
.75
2.25
ANAKY A NEGRO
WOMAN
100.00
JIM
“
”
CHILD
100.00
1 ??
MARE
60.00 1
AXE
1.50
61.50
1 SMALL MARE &
COLT
40.00 1
??
COLT
30.00
70.00
1 DARK BAY
MARE
60.00 25
HEAD
HOGS
60.00
120.00
3 PR PLOW
GEES
6.00
___________
674.62 ½
AN APPRAISEMENT OF THE WIDOW
MILLERS PROPERTY LEFT HER BY WILL
1 BED & FURNITURE APPRAISED
TO
40.00
1
TRUNK
2.00 1
CLOCK
RUE
1.50
3.50
1 DRESSING TABLE
.50
1
CHEST
3.00
3.50
1
TABLE
2.00 1
CUPBOARD
GLASSWARE
&
CROCKERY
20.00
1 LOOKING
GLASS
.75
1
LOOM
3.00
3.75
1 SET KNIVES & FORKS &
PEWTER
3.75
1 SPINNING
WHEEL
1.00
1
DO
3.00
4.00
1
HOGSHEAR
1.00
ANN A NEGRO GIRL
500.00
501.00
1
??
POTWARE
5.75
2 COW &
CALVES
26.00
29.75
1 BROWN
MARE
75.00
2 SOWS & 5
PIGS
10.00
1 BEE
???
2.00
12.00
2 WATER
PAILS
1.50
1 SIDE
SADDLE
8.00
9.50
--------------------
705.75
674.62 ½
-------------
$ 1380.37 ½
WE DO CERTIFY UPON OATH THAT AS
FAR AS WAS PRODUCED TO US BY THE EST.THE ABOVE AND FORE GOING
CONTAINS A TRUE APPRAISEMENT OF THE GOODS, CHATTELS AND
CREDITS OF THE EST OF JAMES MILLER SR TO THE BEST OF OUR
JUDGEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING.
JOHN LATIMER
WILLIAM DICKSON
APPRAISERS
JOEL LATIMER
I DO CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE
APPRAISERS WERE SWORN TO PERFORM THEIR DUTY AS APPRAISERS
ACCORDING TO LAW THIS EIGHTH DAY OF JUNE 1822.
THOS.
LATIMER JP
AN INVENTORY OF THE PERSONAL
PROPERTY OF JAMES MILLER SR SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE ON THE 21ST
DAY JUNE 1822 AT TWELVE MONTHS CREDIT
1 LARGE POT &
HOOKS
LEWIS
ATKINSON
2.75
3 WEEDING
HOES
REZON
CURETON
.50
1 LOG CHOICE & IRON
WEDGE
SAMUEL
SMITH
.81 1/4
2 EMPTY BARRELS
WILLIAM DICKSON
.06 1/4
2
AUGER
REZON
CURETON
.87 ½
1
CHAIN
HENRY W.
LATIMER
2.00
1 LINERE??
WHEEL &
HACKLE
MESHUK
HOWELL
3.87 ½
1 BREAD
TRAY
ABRAMS
MILES
.31 1/4
1 BASIN &
SPOON
CHARLES
WILLIAMS
.37 ½
1
OVEN
MESHUK
HOWELL
.50
1 SET
PLOUGH??
LEWIS
ATKINSON
.62 ½
1 CUTTING BOX &
KNIFE
JOHN
DICKSON
1.31 1/4
1 LOT
PLOUGH??
HENRY W.
LATIMER
.62 ½
1
“
DO
DO
.68 3/5
4 COW
HIDES
LEWIS
ATKINSON
3.81 1/4
1
AXE
DO
1.62
1 BEE
GUM??
HENRY W.
LATIMER
.62 ½
1
“
DO
JOHN
HOLLOMON
1.12 ½
1 BED &
FURNITURE
EDW.
LATIMER
20.00
1
DO
JOEL
LATIMER
16.75
67 LB BACON @ .23
½
JEFFREY
BARKSDALE
15.75
1 JAR LARD 18 ½ @
.14
HENRY KENDALL
SR
2.59
1
DO 86 1/4 @
.20
DO
7.25
1 PR
???
REZON
CURETON
1.50
NOTE; NEED BOTTOM OF PAGE
140
JIM A NEGRO
CHILD
MRS.
MILLER
50.00
1
BAY
MARE
WM.
HUMPHREY
76.50
1
SORREL
MARE
THEO.
JACKSON
70.00
1
DO
COLT
ROLLEY
MILLER
30.50
1
YOKE OXEN & YOKE HENRY KINDALL
SR
71.00
1
SMALL
DO
JAMES
CURETON
13.00
1
RED
HEIFER
JEFFREY
BARKSDALE
6.18 ½
1
WHITE FACE
HEIFER
HENRY KINDALL
SR
10.18 ½
1
BRIDLE
COW
FREDRICK
ROBERTSON
10.00
1
WHITE COW &
YEARLING
ELBERT
ATKINSON
14.00
1
YELLOW
DO
JEFFREY
BARKSDALE
13.20
5
HOGS 1ST
CHOICE HENRY
KINDALL
SR
70.25
5
DO
2ND
CHOICE
DO
19.87 ½
6
DO
3RD
CHOICE
LEWIS
ATKINSON
18.25
6
DO
4TH
CHOICE
DO
18.00
10 HEAD
GEESE
DO
5.00
10
“
DO
ELBERT
ATKINSON
5.00
6
“
DO @ .37
½
LEWIS
ATKINSON
2.20
1
OX CART & 2
MATTOCKS
DO
15.25
_________________
$667.45
1
DUE BILL ON H. & T.H. KINDALL DUE 10 FEBY
1822
60.60
1
DUE BILL ON REZON CURETON BEARING DATE 20TH MAY
1817
22.00
INTEREST ON
THE ABOVE DUE
BILL
8.45
1
NOTE ON SOLOMON MILLER FOR $500. DUE 1ST
??
1822
500.00
INTEREST ON THE ABOVE NOTE UP TO
21ST JUNE
1822
18.60
_________________
610.05
LAND SOLD 5TH NOV.
1822 ON A CREDIT OF TWELVE MONTHS
275 ACRES LAND WHEREON
MRS. MILLER
LIVES
HENRY W.
LATIMER
647.00
106 ACRES LAND WHEREON JOHN CURETON
LIVES HENRY W.
LATIMER
61.00
106 ACRES LAND THE FORK
PLANTATION
ROLLEY
MILLER
300.00
260 ACRES LAND WHERE MARTIN JOHNSON
LIVES BENJ
LATIMER
161.00
PROPERTY SOLD 28TH DEC.
1822
20 BUSHELS CORN @ .76
TO
SOLOMON
MILLER
15.20
20
“
DO @ .77
TO
RICHARD
SHOTHER?
15.40
20
“
DO @ .76
TO
DO
15.20
20
“
DO @
.75
DO
15.00
20
“
DO @
.75
MRS.
MILLER
15.00
4
½
“
DO @
.75
DO
3.75
1078 SEED COTTON @ .22 ½
TO
HENRY KENDALL
SR
24.25
775
“
DO @ .2181
1/4
DO
16.46
_________________
$2617.27 1/4
GEORGIA
HANCOCK COUNTY
THOMAS L. LATIMER
EX. OF THE LAST WILL OF JAMES MILLER BEING
DULY SWORN SAYS THE AFOREGOING ACCT. OF
MONIES PAID OUT OF SAID ESTATE AMOUNTING TO FIFTEEN HUNDRED
& SIXTY TWO DOLLARS & FORTY SIX CENTS IS JUST &
TRUE.
SWORN TO & SUBSCRIBED
BEFORE
THOS. L.
LATIMER
ME THIS 15TH FEBY 1825
JAMES H. JONES
CCD
--- On Tue, 6/7/11, john
armstrong <hotrod195378237@yahoo.com>
wrote:
From:
john armstrong <hotrod195378237@yahoo.com>
Subject:
Re: Fw: John and Agnes Miller and family
To: "Kathie
Sarchet" <imcrafty@swbell.net>
Date: Tuesday, June
7, 2011, 8:09 PM
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iam truily sorry icant open it
 porkchop
check this genealogy site out
looking 4 kin
genealogywise.com
glF
--- On Tue,
6/7/11, Kathie Sarchet
<imcrafty@swbell.net> wrote:
From:
Kathie Sarchet
<imcrafty@swbell.net>
Subject: Fw: John and
Agnes Miller and family
To:
hotrod195378237@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, June 7,
2011, 6:36 PM
JOHN, try opening the files
again. If you can't open them this time I will
try something else. They are Word documents (MS
Word).
Kathie
--- On Mon, 6/6/11,
Kathie Sarchet
<imcrafty@swbell.net>
wrote:
From:
Kathie Sarchet
<imcrafty@swbell.net>
Subject: Fw: John
and Agnes Miller and family
To:
otime1@yahoo.com, kbluvrs@bellsouth.net
Date:
Monday, June 6, 2011, 5:08 PM
David, I found
this all online. And there are links in the
email, all you have to do is click on the links.
We can look for a paper copy, but I was wanting
you to look at these links.
Also today I
found something that Bonedigger had
online....it
seems he thought exactly the same thing as you
David....he thought the John Miller, married to
Agnes, was father to Francis and John Adam.
Click on this link and read his
online post in
2005:
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/MILLER-SE/2005-08/1124733088
David,
if you can't go to the link, I'm copying and
pasting the message here also:
MILLER-SE > 2005-08 >
1124733088
New revelations on the name
John Adam MILLER. Asking for descendants or
relatives of this man to jump in here and
acknowledge the truth of what I am proposing or
knock holes in it as appropriate.
Starting
wit what we know for sure John Adam MILLER and
Seleter had a family in Franklin County GA where
John Adam died 1818 we have his will and long
list of descendants.
What's NEW!!!
1. The
2 of them were in Pendleton SC before coming to
Franklin Co GA we have documents where they were
members of Mountain Creek Baptist Church. We
find both active members over period of years
but later John gets mad and says some bad stuff
about the church and they kick him out. Later
on, probably when they were ready to move to GA
Seleter asks to be removed. Apparently they came
to GA about 1808 and that correpsonds with the
church dismissals.
2. There was a John Adam
MILLER in Greene Co GA who also came from
Pendleton SC but his wife's name was Agnes. We
have docs to prove his association with Francis
MILLER who appears to be a brother to the John
Adam in Franklin Co and a son to the one in
Greene Co which would make the John Adam MILLER
in Greene Co father to them both or J. A. MILLER
Sr.
3. John Adam MILLER in Greene Co died
1793 we see that Agnes files application for
letters of Administration of estate etc.
4.
Francis is the one who was born on the Atlantic
Ocean on the way to the colonies.
5. There is
a possibility that John Adam and Francis are
mentioned in Spartanburg docs.?
Can
anyone verify any of the above, provide a Bible
record or whatever?
7 times in the
Bible God has commanded us to Honor our fathers
and mothers. It is even one of the 10
Commandments. How can we do that if we don't
study, find and know who our G-grandmothers and
G-grandfathers are?
But I don't believe in
those Jablonskis who say they are descended from
Adam and Eve or from King Hubbuk of Poland or
somewhere. As In 1 Timothy 1.4 "nor give heed to
fables and endless genealogies which cause
disputes rather than godly edification which is
in faith."
--- On Mon,
5/30/11, Kathie Sarchet
<imcrafty@swbell.net>
wrote:
From:
Kathie Sarchet
<imcrafty@swbell.net>
Subject: John and
Agnes Miller and family
To: otime1@yahoo.com,
kbluvrs@bellsouth.net
Date: Monday, May 30,
2011, 10:02 AM
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