COLUMBIA COUNTY WILL BOOK A (1790-1804)
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THOMAS SMITH pvd 11/15/1790 Wife: Phoebe. Ch: Wilkins, John, James, Isaac, Mourning, Jane Wilkins, Theba Thomas. Grdau: Eytha Franklin.
CHARLES LINN 1/6/1791:3/28/1791 Wife: Anne. Daus: Elizabeth, Jane, Ann. Sons: Fergus, John, Charles, Jr. Exrs: Wife, Rhesa Howard, Thomas White. Wits: Nathan Roberts, William Smith, Thomas Credille.
MARTHA APPLING 10/9/1788:8/19/1790 Daus: Elizabeth Wynne, Lucy Lamar. Son William. Grdaus: Patty Wynne, Priscilla Lamar. Grsons: Daniel Appling, Joshua Wynne, Robert Wynne. Exrs: Son, William Appling and son-in-law, Joshua Wynne.
JAMES LAMKIN 7/24/1788:7/9/1791 Wife: Winifred. Sons: George, Cliophas, James (land in Mecklenburg Co., Va.) Wits: John Shackleford, John Dixon.
JONATHAN STANFORD 5/6/1792:10/13/1792 Wife: Nelle. Ch: Betty, Saray, Robert, Elijah. Wits: William Gunby, John Gain.
JOHN JOHNS 11/27/1792:7/15/1793 Wife: Elizabeth. Ch: mary, Nancy, Elizabeth James, Thomas, John, James, Francis, Robert, David. Son-in-law, John Culbreath, exr. Wits: Daniel Marshall, James Divine, Joseph Marshall.
JOSEPH MORTON 4/14/1792:6/20/1792 Wife: Mary Ann. Ch: Betty, Lucy Clarkston, William Ragland, Thomas Walker, John. Exrs: Thomas Napier, Walter Dunn, Gerrard Banks, William R. Morton. Wits: John Bennett, Joel Abbott.
PETER CULBREATH 4/3/1793:1/2/1794 Wife: Jane. Daus: Sarah, Mary, Nancy, Delpha, Phlory, Catherine Carr, Barbara Lucas, Margaret Culwell, Elizabeth Culwell, James. Exrs: Daus., Sarah Culbreath, Catharine Carr. Wits: Hannah Ramsey, James Ramsey, J. McNeil.
JOHN STAPLER 6/1/1793:2/27/1794 Wife: Jean. Ch: Elizabeth, Mary, Nancy, James, William, John. Wits: John Rousseau, Andrew Sturges, Thomas Stapler.
WILLIAM FEW, SR. 10/222/1789:7/21/1794 Wife: Ann. Stepdaus: Katherine Hunt, Hannarita Hunt. Sons: Benjamin, William Jr., Ignatius. Daus: Hannah Howard, Elizabeth Andrews. Friends: Rev. Abraham Marshall, Matthew Harris. Exrs: Benjamin Andrews, Benjamin Few, Ignatius Few, Rhesa Howard. Wits: Waters Dunn, Benjamin Butler, Ann Taylor.
JAMES HANDLEY 1/6/1794:5/17/1794 Sole heir: Aunt Ann Walls. Wits: Thomas Howard, Martin Mallowny.
JOHN LACY 12/31/1793:9/10/1794 Wife: Jane. Daus: Elizabeth, Susanna Schoofell. Sons: John, Benjamin, James. Wits: nancy Ray, Jeremiah Griffin, George Linn.
NICHOLAS ALDRIDGE 9/29/1792:311794 Wife: Rebekah. Son: William. Exrs: Wife, Rebekah and James Howard. Wits: Elisha Walker, Samuel Aldridge.
DANIEL MARSHALL 11/28/1783:11/23/1784, originally filed Richmond Co. Wife: Martha. Ch: Eunice, Mary, Daniel, Abraham, John, Zaccheus, Levi, Moses, Solomon, Joseph.
MERRYMAN THORNE 1/6/1798:7/23/1798 Wife: Mary. My ch. Exrs: Wife, Mary, Anderson Crawford. Wits: Rev. Moses Waddell, J. Wright, John Gartrell.
JAMES CALDWELL 11/8/1793:11/24/1796 Wife: Jane. Sons: John, James. Exrs: Nephew, James Caldwell and son, John. Wits: Peter Crawford, James Armor.
ALBERT WRIGHT 1/7/1794:3/24/1798 Bros: Shadrack, Meshach, Abednego, Habbakkuk, Isaiah. Sisters: Charity Schultz, Peace Brown, Naomi Mims, Concord Hamilton, Elizabeth Tindall. Exr: Bro., Abednego. Wits: John Ebenezer, Rebekah Smith.
JOSEPH FARGERSON 3/8/1797:3/24/1798 Kinsman: Dredzil Pace, gdn of old slaves, Judith and Billy. Exrs: Dredzil Pace, John Foster. Wits: Jacob Miller, John Leith, John Foster.
WILLIAM JACKSON 4/14/1797:2/19/1798 Wife: Elizabeth. Ch: Maria, Richard, William. Wits: Edward Jones, John Garnett.
JOHN KENNADY 4/14/1797:2/19/1798 Wife: Elizabeth. Ch: Elizabeth, Hester, Rhoda, Mary Wilkerson, Andrew, Stephen, John. Grson: John Kennedy. Wits: James Landers, Elizabeth Lawrence.
JOHN BOYD, Planter, of St. Paul's Parish, 10/1778:3/1799 Wife: Elizabeth. Ch: Fanny, Nancy, David, Sarah Hobby, Mary Ricketson, John, Edward, Nichodemus. Wits: John Glover, Theophilus Davis.
GEORGE WALTON, Prince Edward Co., Va. 9/2/1796:1/7/1802 Ch: Robert, Nancy Hughes Moore, Polly Knight, Suckey Morton, Doshia, wife of John Walton, John, Sally Betts, Temperance Yarborough, Thomas. Dau: Doshia, died and left no ch, her share to go to her husband. Grdau: Doshia Morton. Son-in-law: Woodson Knight. Wife: Martha. Wits: Joel Puckett, Isaac Read, James Young.
NATHANIEL PEARRE 4/10/1802:12/20/1802 Wife: Anna. Ch: William, Nathaniel, John. Heir: Elliot Coleman. Samuel Nathaniel Coleman to receive property of his father, Caleb, which I hold in trust as well as his Uncle Rueben Coleman's estates. Exrs: Wife, Anna, Eli Pearre, Nathaniel Hicks, Benjamin Lee. Wits: T. Critchor, William Jones, J. E. Todd, Jonathan Parish.
WILLIAM BECKHAM, pvd 11/5/1812 Wife: Catherine. Grsons: Thomas and Lewis Cobb, son of John Cobb, decd, Alfred Simpson and G. E. Beckham Ellis, ch of George Ellis. Grdau: Catherine Cobbs. Grgrson: William Beckham. Grgrdau: Adeline Cobbs, dau. Of grson, Thomas. Grdau-in-law, Polly W. Cobbs, wife of Thomas. Exrs: Wife and grson, Thomas. Grdau-in-law, Polly W. Cobbs, wife of Thomas. Exrs: Wife and grson, Thomas Cobbs. Wits: James Lovelace, Patrick Dougherty, James Stapler, John Minor.
DANIEL STURGIS 10/7/1812:11/8/1812 Wife: Eleanor. Son: John. Grch: Ch of son, Daniel and ch of son, Robert. Exrs: Wife, Eleanor and son, John. Wits: Elias Lazenby, John Briscoe, Jr., John Briscoe.
JOHN HAND 6/2/1810:11/6/1812 Wife: Mary,e xtrx. Ch: Mary, Sarah, Rebia, Rhody, Abraham, John, William, Henry, Thomas. Wits: Moses Spivey, John Durden, Joab Spivey.
NINIAN OFFUTT McGRUDER 3/17/1803:6/24/1803 Wife: Mary. Ch: Eleanor, Sarah Olive, Zadock, George, John, Archibald, Grdau: Polly McGruder, dau. Of John. Exrs: Sons, Zadock, George and Archibald. Wits: James Olive, Bury Olive, Reuben Reynolds.
SUSANNAH COLEMAN, pvd 6/22/1803 Heirs: George, Cynthia, Patsy, Susannah and Paul Caldwell Roseburgh. Exrs: James Ray, James Stapler. Wits: William Shields, Samuel Crabb.
REUBEN WINFREY 2/14/1801:6/27/1803 Ch: Thomas, Jesse, Nathan, John, Isaac, Samuel, Mary, Hester, Rachel, Deborah and Hannah Few. Exrs: Sons, John and Samuel. Wits: Joel Cloud, Zachariah Franklin, John Williams, John Woogard.
MARGARET STUART 9/27/1803:1/25/1804 Grch: Mary Strain, Mary, Ann, Jane, Isabel and Elizabeth Stuart, James Stuart, William Stuart McCord. Son: Martin Stuart. Wits: William Dean, Ninian McGruder, James Olive.
MARTIN BURNSIDES 11/4/1803:1/31/1804 Wife: Elizabeth, extrx. Ch: Elizabeth, David, Matthew, James, Thomas.
JAMES BURROUGHS 3/22/1804:3/24/1804 Wife: Elizabeth. Ch: Elizabeth, Ellender, Deborah Wood, Priscilla Stubblefield, Benjamin, Reuben, Raymond, Francis, Bennett, James, Aquilla. Exrs: Sons, James, Francis and Bennett Burroughs. Wits: Fanny Low, John Foster.
JOHN DOGGETT 5/22/1804:6/18/1804 Wife: Ann. Daus: Hannah, wife of Charles Clayton, Orpha Avary, wife of Harbert Avary, Ann Lamkin, wife of Samson Lamkin. Sons: John, Reuben, Garner, Asa. Grch: Elizabeth Lamkin, heirs of Rebecca Dixon, wife of John, Henry Dixon, son of Rebecca. To: Cleophas Lamkin, in right of former wife, my decd dau., Mary. Wits: Thomas Cobbs, J. T. Allen, William Taylor. Exrs: Wife, Ann and son, Asa Doggett.
WILLIAM HOGE 3/17/1804:6/18/1804 Ch: Stephen, Solomon, Jacob, William, Cassandra, Polly. Exr: Reuben Langston. Wits: Gazaway Davis, John Olive, Robert Jones.
THOMAS NAPIER 3/25/1804:6/8/1804 Daus: Ann Fox Hamilton, Patsy C. Porter, Dolly Randolph. Grch: Elizabeth Randolph, Patsy, Thomas Hamilton, Thomas Peter Randolph. Niece: Elizabeth Randolph. Son; Augustus. Exrs: James Hamilton, Robert Randolph, Peter Crawford, Samuel Goode. Wits: H. Hampton, Rene Stone, Daniel Appling.
JOHN HAYNES 7/6/1803:7/12/1804 Wife: Mary. Daus: Catherine, Peggy, Malinda, Matilda. Exrs: Wife and friend, John Briscoe. Wits: John Howard, James Howard, Ezekiel Young.
WILLIAM APPLING 10/8/1803:12/19/1804 Sons: Walter Aristo, Otho, William. Exrs: Thomas Marshall Dent, Anderson Crawford, Peter Crawford, Walter Appling. Wits: Harden Prior, John Rowe, W. F. Ware.
HENRY EVANS 11/21/1801:12/3/1802 Wife: Elizabeth. Ch: Mildred, Susannah, Polly, Letisher King, Elizabeth Hanson, Sarah Barnes, Henry, John. Exrs: Son, Henry Evans, Thomas Hanson, Sr., John Foster. Wits: M. Shackelford, Richard King, John Foster.
MERCER BROWN, Quaker 10/10/1802:12/4/1802 Wife: Sarah. Ch: Richard, Mercer, Mary, Sarah, Margaret, Phoebe. Grson: Son of decd dau., Ann, Benjamin Lancaster. Exrs: Sons, Richard and Mercer. Wits: Richard Patten, Peter Dill, Mark Davis.
JOHN W. McDONALD 1/5/1803:1/23/1803 Wife: Elizabeth. Ch: Nancy, Rachel, Elizabeth, Mary, isabel Brown, Daniel, Andrew, James, John, Alexander. Exrs: Sons, James and John McDonald. Wits: Sons, John, James, Alexander and dau., Mary McDonald.
MARTHA HOWARD, widow of Lemuel, 1/22/1802:1/25/1803 Ch: Susannah, Amelia, Aquilla, Dorsey, Lemuel, John, Thomas. Sons-in-law: Julius Seay, Benjamin Smithson, Peter Ashmore. Exrs: Sons, Aquilla and Dorsey Howard. Wits: David Harrison, Robert Hodgins, Thomas White.
JOHN LUKE 5/19/1798:2/8/1803 Wife: Jane. Sons: Joseph, Henry, William, Thomas, John, Reuben, James. Wits: William Joysey, William Pullen, Edward O'Neal.
WATERS DUNN 5/20/1800:4/12/1803 Wife: Ann. Daus: Millicent, Sarah, Elizabeth, Katy, Happy, Clary, Ann Blevins. Sons: Waters, Gatewood, Richard, William. Exrs: Sons, Waters, Richard and Gatewood. Wits: James Wood, Alexander Gardner.
SAMUEL PAYNE 5/16/1801:6/24/1803 Wife: Anna. Nephew: John Gray. Grch: Ch of son, Samuel Payne, William and dau., Anne Lovell.
LETTICIA KING 10/22/1802:12/20/1802 To: Walter Maddox. Sons: John, Samuel, Richard, Henry, Stephen. To: Sally Barnes, wife of John Barnes, Letty King, and two orphans of Zephania Athey. To: Letty Graves, Milly Athy. Exrs: Sons, Henry and Stephen King, John Shackleford. Wits: Benjamin Burroughs, Raymond Burroughs, Elizabeth Crawford.
PETER STUBBLEFIELD 10/17/1794:11/9/1794 Wife: Margaret. Niece: Peggy Harrison Long. Nephew: Peter Stubblefield. Exrs: Evans Long, Thomas Haynes, Major Nicholas Long, John Greaves, William Walton. Wits: Andrew Allen, Zebede Beall, Thomas Haynes.
ANTHONY HAYNES 6/15/1795:6/20/1795 Bros: Harbert, Eaton, Thomas and Andrew. Sister: Jane Wood. Exrs: David Maxwell, Thomas Haynes. Wits: Abner Sims, Giles Gaylord, Peter Crawford.
ELIZABETH FRAZER, widow 10/25/1795:11/9/1795 Daus: Mary, Barbary, Charity Spencer, Penelope Chisholm. Exrs: Horatio Marbury, James Jones. Wits: Ambrose Jones, George Beck, J. B. Spencer.
JESSE HORN 3/7/1793:12/29/1795 Wife: Priscilla, all of estate to support mother, bro. And ch. Exr: Robert Bowdre. Wits: Andrew Hay, John Kendrick, William Hoofe.
JOHN DORSETT 9/12/1792:5/2/1796 Wife: Eleanor. Daus: Anne, Martha, Henrietta Nailor. Sons: Theodore, John, Walter, Grch: Eleanor Culver, Theodore and John King Dorsett. Exrs: Wife, and son, Theodore. Wits: James Ross, Ann Ross, Edward Ross.
ROBERT GRAVES 3/8/1796:8/9/1796 Wife: Marah. Ch: Jenny, Thomas, Robert. Decd dau., Mimah Garo, and Susannah Graves have had their share. To: Dempsey Graves, son of Miam Garo, decd. Grson: Thomas Garo. Exrs: John Culbreath, wife, Marah. Wits: John Tankersley, John Sloan, Nancy Culbreath.
THOMAS NEWMAN 7/7/1796:8/20/1796 Wife: Mary, extrx. Son: George. Wits: Charles Crawford, Jane Crawford, Bathsheba Guthrey.
JOHN ROSSAU 9/5/1796:11/7/1796 Wife: Jean. Ch: Margaret, Nancy, Betty, Sarah, James, George, Thomas, William. Ch "in esse". Exrs: Ignatius Few, Colonel Williams. Wits: A. Sturgis, H. Prior, Rebecca Stephens.
WILLIAM WILLINGHAM 10/25/1797:1/11/1798 Wife: Nancy. Ch: Fanny, Elizabeth, Beverly, Nancy, Patsey, George, John, William, Caleph, Isaac, Judah. Exrs: Son, Isaac Willingham, and Eli Garnett. Wits: William Jones, John Eubanks.
JOHN COBBS 12/26/1796:5/20/1797 Wife: Elizabeth. Daus: Catherine Elizabeth. Polly Dixon. Sons: William, Thomas, Lewis. Exrs: Thomas Cobbs, the elder, William Beckham, Howell Cobbs. Wits: Thomas Napier, Basil Jones, J. Benning, John Cobbs, Dr. John de Yampert.
JOHN MOONEY, Quaker, 4/24/1795:4/20/1796 Wife: Mary. Ch: Joseph, Grace, Prudence. Wits: J. Moore, Jr., Samuel Brown, Richard Ryan.
JAMES PERREA 10/24/1796:12/27/1797 Wife: Masse. Ch: Ruth, Charlotte, Levi, Eli, James. Grsons: James, son of Nathaniel, James, son of John O., William Dearmond. Exrs: Wife, Masse and son, Nathaniel Perrea. Wits: Eliza Perrea, D. Harris, A. Crawford.
PETER ZACHRY 11/8/1797:2/1/1798 Wife: Mary. Daus: Edne, Betsy, Nancy, Patsy, Mary Ward, Susannah Walton. Exrs: Wife, Mary, Thomas Watson, Thomas Ward. Wits: William Zachry, Jacob Fudge.
BASIL JONES 12/8/1798:2/1/1799 Wife: Ann, extrx. Dau: Elizabeth Brook Jones. Wits: Robert Barte, Eleathy Waters Hall, Ignatius Few, Jr.
JOHN LAMAR 5/3/1799:8/15/1799 Wife: Lucy. Ch: Lucy, Martha, Harmony, Jacky, William. Exrs: William Appling, Anderson Crawford. Wits: H. Hampton, J. Sinquefield.
LEWIS GARDNER 8/16/1799:10/12/1799 Wife: Verlinda. Daus: Sarah, Hannah, Mary, Ann, Rachel Allison, Verlinda Harris. Sons: Lewis, Ashel, Gray Gynum. Exrs: Son, Lewis Gardner and Anderson Crawford. Wits: Thomas Napier, John Foster, John Appling.
LUKE SANDERS 10/1/1799:10/18/1799 Wife: Rachel. Daus: Mary Spaulding, Jane Meade, Betsy Page. Sons: John, James Tyre, Clayborne. Exrs: Son, James Sanders and son-in-law, Henry Spaulding. Wits: Absalom Farrer, Thomas Farrer, Clayborne Sanders.
JOSHUA SANDERS, Quaker, 12/3/1799:7/10/1800 Wife: Patience Ch: Keziah, Patience Trip, Jeremiah, Nathan, mark, Reuben. Grdaus: Polly Cade, Patience Sanders. Grson: William Sanders. Exrs: Wife, Patience and son, Mark, Robert Jones. Wits: Robert Johns, William Ashmore.
DANIEL WILLIAMS, Quaker, 1/31/1800:6/6/1800 Wife: Mary. Daus: Sarah, wife of Turner Parsons, Sibilla, wife of Stephen Todd, Elizabeth, Ruth, Amy, Rebekah, Mary. William Lay to continue to live in my house. Exrs: Sons-in-law: Robert Millhouse and Stephen Hodgin. Wits: William, Isaac and Richard Patten.
ELIZABETH BUGG 10/6/1799:7/30/1800 Dau: Obedience Newsom, and her ch by James Martin, via: Agnes. Sons: Sherwood, Nicholas Hobson. Grdaus: Susannah Bonner, Martha Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Sarah Keziah, Paris Jones. Exrs: Hobson and Sherwood Bugg. Wits: Zachariah Ray, Daniel Ellis.
WILLIAM HIXON 5/2/1800:10/13/1800 Wife: Elizabeth. Ch: John, William, Timothy, George, Seaborn. Exrs: Wife, Elizabeth, Jonathan Mote.
SARAH HARRISS 4/19/1797:12/12/1800 Sons: Zadock, James. Exr: James Harriss. Wits: Clementius Davis, Gazaway Davis, Sarah Anderson.
DAVID TINSLEY 9/26/1801:12/29/1801 Daus: Elizabeth Underwood, Sucky Simmons, Hannah Bird Tinsley, Nancy Smith Tinsley, Franky Armstead Tinsley, Peggy Tinsley. Son: James. Exrs: Hannah Bird Tinsley, Charles Crawford. Wits: Thomas, Samuel and Aley Hanson.
DAVID MAXWELL 12/26/1800:12/3/1801 Son-in-law: Robert Crawford and his wife, Elizabeth. To: Jane Bulloch, wife of Daniel Bulloch. Exr: Peter Crawford. Wits: Thomas Haynes, A. Crawford, James Aldridge.
WILLIAM WHEER 11/16/1801:1/21/1802 Wife: Frances, extrx. Ch: Margaret, Nansey, Sarah, Mary, Betsey Cobbs, Robert, John, William. Wits: John Carroll, Reuben Langston.
HANNAH ALEXANDER, widow of John, 1/8/1800:4/10/1802 Nieces: Susannah Hampton, Hannah Andrews, Lydia Bugg, Elizabeth Hill, Sanders Andrews, Susannah Andrews (daus. Of Benjamin, both being infirm). Nephew: Moses Andrews. To: Lidy McGown, dau. Of William. Exrs: Benjamin Andrews, Colonel henry Hampton, Rev. John Andrews. Wits: William Clarke, Absalom Hicks, Benjamin Hampton.
JAMES WRIGHT 4/6/1802:4/10/1802 Wife: Mary. Exrs: John Stith, William Hogg, William Jones, Benjamin Lee. Wits: John Stith, Elizabeth Stith, Ann Ray, Ann Stith.
DANIEL McGEHEE 5/21/1802:5/16/1802 Wife: Jane. Ch: Jincey, Nancy, Catherine Urquehart, William, Archibald, Nathan. Exrs: Wife, Jane, John Catlett. Wits: John Catlett, John Garrett, Herbert Dunevant.
NINIAN McGRUDER 10/17/1801:5/9/1810 Wife: Rebekah. Daus: Elinor Bealle, Aletha Drane, Cassandra Drane, Margaret Simms, mary Leigh, Elizabeth McGruder. Sons: William, Samuel. To: Rebekah Robertson's three ch, viz: James, Mary and Leavin Nobles. Exrs: William McGruder, Benjamin Leigh. Wits: R. Y. Langston, Lewis Gardner, Richard Wiley.
SPIVEY FULLER 12/3/1790: --- Wife: Susannah. Sons: Isham, Samuel, William Allen, Spivey. Exrs: Susannah Fuller, James Dannelly, James Hamilton. Wits: Merryman Thorn, Mary Thorn, John Jones.
REBECCA FLINT 8/27/1802:7/11/1806 Son: Thomas H. Grdaus: Rebecca and Sarah, daus of Thomas. Grsons: Aquilla, William and John, sons of Thomas. Exr: Thomas Flint. Wits: A. Crawford, William Young, Peter Young.
LUKE LANDERS 1/1/1799:10/18/1799 Wife: Rachel. Daus: Mary Spaulding, Jane Meade, Betsy Page. Sons: John, James, Tyre, Clayborne. Exrs: Son, James, son-in-law, Henry Spalding. Wits: Absalom and Thomas Farrer, Clayborne Landers.