This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records.
Nathan Gooches Will
State of Georgia, Greene County
I, Nathan Gooch, of said State and County being of sound mind but in a low state of health, do constitute and make this my last Will and Testament, revoking all other as follows.
Item first: I do give and bequeath to my son William negro girl Minerva and negro girl Anny, one new bed and furniture, one trunk as an extra legasee.
Item Second: I do give and bequeath to my wife one bed and furniture, eight sitting chairs, one folding table, six pewter plates, one pewter dish, one pine chest, one sugar stand, and all the bed furniture which she has manufactured since our marriage, except two counterpanes, one of which for my son James and one for my son Thomas, also one dinner pot, and one small pot, one five quart pewter bason.
Item 3d: I do give and bequeath to my son Thomas one bed and furniture.
Item fourth I do give and bequeath to my son James one bed and furniture.
Item fifth: I wish all the residue of my property such as land, negroes, stock of all kinds, plantation utensils etc. sold to the highest bidder on a credit of twelve months, and after all my just debts are paid the balance if any to be divided into five equal parts; one part for the benefit and behoof of my son William, one part to my wife Mary, one part to my son Thomas, one part to my son James, and the remaining part to the heirs of Joseph Graham by his first wife viz my grandchildren.
Item sixth: I do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas Stocks, Joseph Graham, and my wife Mary Gooch my true and lawful executors to this my last Will and Testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of
This sixteenth day of February eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
Nathan [his mark] Gooch [Seal]
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Attest Thomas Findley.
Robert W. Burdell, J.P.
Georgia, Greene County Court of Ordinary, 3rd March 1828. Personally appeared in open court Thomas Findley and Robert W. Burdell, the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will who being duly sworn depose and say that they saw the within named Nathan Gooch sign, seal, and heard him acknowledge the foregoing to be his last Will and Testament and that they each believed him to be of perfect sound, mind, and memory at the time of his so doing and that they each subscribed their names as Witnesses thereto.
Robert W. Burdell, Thomas Findley
Sworn to in open court, 3rd March 1828
Ebenezer Torrence, Clk.
Recorded 26th March 1828, Ebenezer Torrence, Clk.
Reference
Greene County, Georgia, Wills 1786–1795, 1794–1810, 1840–1877, 1806–1816, 1817–1842, image 438, FamilySearch.
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