Joseph (Butler Jr) Butler Jr. (1738 - 1768)

Born 1738 in Beaufort, Province of South Carolina

Died 6 Feb 1768 at about age 30 in Great Ogeechee Plantation, Bryan, Province of Georgia

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Biography

Joseph was born in 1738. He was the son of Joseph Butler Sr and Mary LaRoche. He passed away in 1768.

Will of Joseph Butler Sr

Georgia

The Last Will and Testament of Joseph Butler made this Twenty Second... Day of April in the Year One Thousand Seven hundred Seventy Three

Is in the manner and form following......

I give and bequeath to my son Shem Butler fifty pounds sterling to him and his heirs and assigns forever.....

I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Spencer five hundred pounds stirling of Georgia and the tract of land I bought of Jame Roff about five hundred acres joyning Lewis Muteair on the other side the river Catamahaw nigh the Ferry to her and her heirs and assigns forever....

I give and bequeath to my son James Butler my plantation known by the name of the White Oak Swamp or the Beaver Dam and all the other lands joyning it and the one hundred acres I bought of Lewis Muteair (?) at a place called Barbeque Creek all the said trach containing in the whole one thousand five hundred acres or there abouts to him and his heirs assigns forever I likewise give and bequeath to my a foresaid son James Butler one hundred negroes that is to say he is to have from Rose Due, a fellow called Bob and his wife called ? And her children, and a wench called Lizie and her children, all the rest he is to take at Great Ogeche plantation to make up in the whole the aforesaid one hundred negroes he is to take them in familys as they come which is to say old and young together to make up the aforesaid one hundred negroes to him and his heirs assigns forever I likewise give him all my cattle at gechee. My will is likewise that after my decease there shall be one whole crop made by the negroes, which I give to my son James Butler on the White Oak Swamp plantation, to pay all the ? I give in this my will and pay all my just depts, and if any money then should remain after the said Debts and ? Are paid he then shall pay the balance if any of the said crop to the children I have by Marget Crocker equally amongst them...

I give and bequeath to Marget Crocker seven negroes named as follow, Prince, Little ? Harper Lucey Peggey and her child named Clar? And Silvey and her child named Mark and the house and lot in Savanah that I bought of one Miller in ?? And fifty pounds stirling money of Georgia, what I have given above to the aforesaid Marget Crocker is on the ?? That after at her decease or before she may at any time or times give part or all that I have gave her above to any one or amongst or as she shall think proper to the children she has by me as its not to go from the child or children that she had by me or may hereafter have by me, I likewise give her my rideing Ghear and two horses...

I give and bequeath to the girl called Frances Butler that I had by Margaret Crocker a tract of land containing four hundred acres on the North Branch of South Newport and two lots of land in the town of Maegomory containing in front and back land ten acres which said lotts I bought of M. Charles Pryce (?) I likewise give her four negroes named Sarah her two children Nanny and Peter and a boy names Daniel to her and her heirs and assigns forever...

I give and bequeath to the boy called Benjamin Butler three negroes named John ? And a boy Jacob, I likewise give him my Rose Due plantation and the island I bought that was formerly Thomas Perkins to him and his heirs and assigns forever....

I give and bequeath to the boy called Shadrach Butler four negroes named Moses and his wife Rachel and her two children Ben and Betty, I likewise give him one thousand acres of land in St Andrew’s Parish nigh the river of ? To him and his heirs assigns forever....

I give and bequeath to the boy called Masceh Butler four negroes named Sweep (?) Jakes and Salley his wife, angola Jack and Dick, I likewise give him two tracts of land one eight hundred and the other of seven hundred and fifty up Conchee in St John Parish joyning Nigh Mitchell ? To him and his heirs and assigns forever....

I give and bequeath to the boy called William Butler four negroes named York his wife Seley Mondingo Jack and Rodey I likewise give him one tract of land that I had of my son James containing three hundred and fifty acres on Great Ogechee and one ? hundred acre tract not far from it and three hundred acres of a five hundred acre tract of which I sold my son James two hundred acres, this three hundred and the five hundred acres joyn, and two tracts in St Matthew Parish up (Savanah) river containing three hundred acres it being in two tracts, the whole contains one thousand four hundred acres to him and his heirs and assigns forever...

I give and bequeath to Marget Crocker and the five children I had by her all my plate and houshold furniture plantation tooles at Rose Due book and all the cattell hoggs at Rose Due to be equally divided between her and the afoesaid five children that I had by her and each of the children is to have a horse...

My will is likewise that Marget Crocker shall live at Rose Due untill Benjamin is toenty (20) years of age but no land shall be cleared on Rose Due or the Island untill Benjamin age is of that is to say if she continues single and keep a good reputation and takes good care of the aforesaid children...

I give all the remaining negroes not yett disposed of to be equally divided between the aforesaid five children Frances Benjamin Shadrech Masceh and Wm Butler as they are called so to them and their heirs and assigns forever, my will is likewise that all the lands if any I shall purchase after the date of this will and negroes that I may buy or anything else my will is likewise that if any one or more of the aforesaid children should die before they arrive to the age of twenty one the survivors of the said children shall be heirs to what was the deceas’d and so on, but in case they should all die before they have (of their body?) lawfully heirs or age, then in such case their estates shall go to my heirs and not to the heirs of their mother Marget Crocker on any acct what ever...

Lastly I constute and appoint my beloved son James Butler and my good friends William and Edward Telsair (?) merchants to be my executors to this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannull all and every former testaments will and legeces (?) bequests and executors by me in any wise before this time named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal the day and year above written...

Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Joseph Butler to be his last will and testament in presence of us the subscribers witness’

Sources

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/147605/person/25338865006/facts

Joseph Butler Will, 22 April 1773, Christ Ch Parish, Georgia; Original Wills; Record Group 049-01-002, Colony of Georgia – Wills; Georgia Archives, Morrow, Georgia; imaged in "Colonial Wills," Georgia Virtual Vault (https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/cw/id/827/rec/5 )