AAFA Wills
WILL OF WILLIAM ALFORD

In the name of God Amen. I William Alford Senr. of the County of Hancock & State of Georgia being in perfect health and of sound & disposing mind & memory and calling to mind the frailty of life knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make ordain constitute & appoint this my last will & testament in manner & form following viz_ First I bequeath my soul to God that gave it, my body to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors.

Item. As touching my worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give divise & dispose of the same in the following manner.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my loving son Jacob Alford the land & Plantation whereon I now live two hundred acres in quantity.

Item. The whole of the balance of my estate both real & personal to be equally divided between all of my beloved children seven in number, viz John Alford, Milly Reed, William Alford Junr, Jane Ellis, Owen Alford, Jacob Alford & Martha Newsom.

Item. I give & bequeath unto Micajah Middlebrooks the sum of two dollars cash.

Item. I give & bequeath unto Joshua Grace the sum of two dollars cash.

Item. I give & bequeath unto Alford Middlebrooks two dollars cash.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my loving grand daughter Elizabeth Driskill one hundred & fifty dollars cash.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my loving grand daughter Ann Vinson the sum of one hundred & fifty dollars cash.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my loving grandson Cannon Grace the sum of Three hundred & fifty dollars cash.

And I do hereby nominate & appoint my loving friends Joel D. Newsom & Hardy Jernigan executors of this my last will & testament and do hereby revoke and disanull all former wills by me made and publish and pronounce this my last will & testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 31st July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty two--

William x Alford, Senr. (his mark) (Seal)

Witness Henry Dortch Levi Cobb James Marchman

Georgia, Hancock County

Inferior Court sitting for Ordinary purposes, (1st Monday) 2nd day of May 1825.

Present their Honors:

Hartwell Gary, William A. Cobb, Gidion Holsey, John Turner } Justices

The last will & testament of William Alford Senr. late of this County decd. being produced in Open Court by Joel D. Newsom one of the nominated executors therein-- and being fully proved to the satisfaction of the Court by the evidence of Levi Cobb & James Marchman two of the attesting witnesses thereto sworn in Open Court-- It is ordered that said will be admitted to record-- And the said Joel D. Newsom appeared in person & renounced the executorship of said will on his part.

Georgia, Hancock County,

Inferior Court sitting for Ordinary purposes, Monday 13th June 1825.

Present their Honors:

Hartwell Gary, John Turner, Wm. A. Cobb, John G. Gilbert } Justices

Hardy Jernigan one of the nominated executors of the last will &c of William Alford Senr. decd. appeared in Open Court & renounced the executorship of said will on his part--

Hancock County, GA, Will Book L, Pages 286-287.