Will of Dudley Peebles

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Meriwether, Georgia, United States
Surname/tag: Peebles

Transcribed Will of Dudley Peebles (abt.1784-abt.1860) of Meriwether, Georgia, United States. Will was written on 28 January 1857. It was probated on 6 September 1860.^[1]

Persons Listed

• Dudly Peebles, Testator
• jane, Testator's daughter
• Minerva, enslaved person
• unnamed children of Minerva, enslaved persons
• James H. A. Peebles, Testator's son
• Susan Clara, Testator's daughter
• Lucy Y Peebles, Testator's wife and Executrix
• Robert McCray, Witness
• Drury Dupree, Witness
• Jas L Jolly, Witness

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I Dudly Peebles of the county of Meriwether and
State of Georgia being feeble in body but of sound mind and
disposing memory do hereby proceed to dispose of my worldly effects
in the following manner (to wit)

Item first I wish all my just debts to be paid by my
executrix herein after named out of my money I may leave and
from the sale of any of the negroes or other property my Executrix may
choose to sell for that purpose.

Item Second. I have already given my daughter Jane a negro
woman Minerva and her children. I also give her one cow and calf

Item Third I give my son James H. A. Peebles Six hundred
dollars to be paid to him in the years from the Christmas after
my death.

Item Fourth I give my daughter Susan Clara one half
of the negroes which may be left after all my debts are paid
and the legacy to my son James H. A.

Item Fifth I give to my wife Lucy Y. Peebles everything of
which I may die professed both real & personal, I.E. And lots
of land on which I reside, all my stock of horses, cows and hogs
all my plantation utensils, crops of every kind on hand or growing,
also one half of my negroes that may remain after paying my
debts. This item is intended to include everything k[n]own at the
time of my death except what I have willed a[l]ready in the items
above. I also give my wife my land warrant for (120) one hundred
and twenty acres of land, and one I expect to get for (40) forty
acres - all in this first item I give her in the simple.

Item Sixth I constitute & appoint my beloved wife Lucy
Y Executrix to this my last will and Testament this
28^th January 1857.

Dudly Peebles (LS)

Signed Sealed Declared & Published
by Dudly Peebles as his last will and
Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers
who Subscribed our names hereto in the presences
of Said Testator and of each other this January 28^th 1857

Robert McCray
Drury Dupree
Jas L. Jolly

Georgia Meriwether County
Court of Ordinary September term 1860
The within last will & testament of Dudly Peebles
having been proven in ? or upon the oaths of the Subscribing witnesses
to Said will (to wit) Robert McCray Drury Dupree and Jas L. Jolly
It is now therefore ordered at this regular term of the court that
the same be committed to record

Recorded September 6^th 1860

Sources

1. ↑ "Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990", citing Affiliate Publication Title: Wills 1831-1903 (Meriwether County, Georgia); Entry: 1001; FHL microfilm: 327663, FamilySearch Record: 68PR-N55B (accessed 26 February 2023) FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-893T-8WHH Image number 00415, Dudly Peebles probate in Meriwether, Georgia, United States.