Document:  Will of John W. Jackson 
Document Location:  Georgia Archives, roll 104-17
Document Condition:  Excellent, but pages bound out of order.
Cite:  Warren County Wills, 1829-52, pp. 192 and 193.
Signed:  20 February 1846
Proved:  1850, month and day not shown
Date read and transcribed:  20 February 1993, by Steven Norris

TRANSCRIPTION:

Georgia
Warren County

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN.  I, John W. Jackson of the state and county
aforesaid, being weak and feeble in body, but of sound mind and memory,
calling to mind the uncertainty of life and being unwilling that no
[mis]understanding should exist at and after my death with regard to my
intentions or will, think proper to and do make and ordain this to be my
Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making void any other Will or
Wills by me at any time heretofore, made in manner and form following:

First:  I command my soul to Almighty God who gave it and my body to the
earth in a decent Christian burial.

Second:  As to such debts as I may be owing at my death, I bequeath the
payments of the same to my sons Aaron, Nathan, and Thomas, requesting that
they will pay each their proportionate share of the same.

Thirdly:  As to such property as may now appertain to my Estate, or may
appertain thereto at my death, I give and bequeath the same, of whatsoever
kind it may be, to my son Aaron Jackson, excepting such as may be otherwise
disposed of by this Will.

Fourthly:  I do hereby confirm to my sons Aaron, Nathan, and Thomas Jackson
certain property vested in them by deed executed before the making of this
Will, and bearing date the twentieth day of February 1846, said property
consisting of four Negroes, to wit: Albert, Edy, Nelmond, and Mary, and
their increase.

Fifthly:  I give unto my son Lewis Jackson the sum of one dollar.

Sixthly:  I nominate and appoint my son Aaron Jackson the Executor of this
my Last Will and Testament.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentieth
day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

John W. Jackson (by mark)

Witnesses:
Nathaniel Parham (L. S.)
Samuel F. Jackson (L. S.)
Joseph W. Thomas (L. S.)

Recorded:  1850 by P. N. Mattox, C. C. O.