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Facts and Events
Will of John Sudduth
- Written: April 27 1798
- In the Name of God amen, I John Sudduth of this State of Georgia and county of Lincoln being low in body but sound and perfect mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament in manor and form following:
- First I will and order that all my just debts shall be paid.
- I then give and bequeath all estate both ____ and personal to by beloved wife Ann Sudduth during natural life, and after her disease to be agreeably divided between my two sons John Sudduth and Henry Sudduth to them and heirs forever and lastly I appoint Elijah Sudduth and Jonathan Armstrong Executors to my estate.
- In witness to where of I sign here unto wit my hand & seal the twenty second day of April in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred ninety eight.
- Signed Sealed and Acknowledged by the above named John Sudduth to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who have him unto ?????? our name as witnesses in the presence of the testator
- (signed) John Sudduth
- William Evans
- Benjamin Elliot
- Andrew West
- Pg 115
- Came personally before me Charles Blauton, Ayers Holliday, and Nathan Ragan and being duly sworn provided to appraise the property John Sudduth decsd. dom the 4th day of November 1802.
- Before me:
- Wm Evans JP
- Inventory of Estate:
- Came personally before me Charles Blauton, Ayers Holliday, and Nathan Ragan and being duly sworn provided to appraise the property John Sudduth decsd. dom the 4th day of November 1802.
- Charles Blauton
- Ayres Holliday
- Nathan Ragan
- 10 head of horned cattle $62. 1 brown bay horse $68 = $127.00
- 1 so??? colt $25, 1 feather bed and furnishings 40 = 65.00
- 1 feather bed & do 40. 2 bed coving 5, 1 small table 2 = 47.00
- 6 chairs 3. 1 corner cupboard and cooking oven 18 = 21.00
- 1 looking slop .75. 2 spinning wheels 5. 1 chest 1.50 = 7.25
- ????? of pot frame 14. ???? of kitchen furniture 15 = 29.00
- ????? of plantation tools 13, 21 head of hogs 58 = 71.00
- 1 rug and 2 sifters = 1.50
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- 368.75
- From Court Minutes Lincoln County, Georgia Court House
- 5 May 1806
- Ordered:
- That Henry Suddith an orphan of John Suddith dec'd be bound to Jonathan Armstrong for the term of four years and six months.
Notes
- From "More Early Southeast Texas Families" pg 146 by Madeleine Martin:
- Henry Wethers Sudduth came to texas in 1834 from Ouachita Parish Louisians, where he had been living for several years and settled first on Clare Creek, a tributary of Thickety Creek, East of pressent town of Roganville near what is now the Jasper-Newton county line.
- A native of North Carolina, he was the son of John and Ann Sudduth, who went to Lincoln County, Georgia, while their sons, John and Henry were quite small. Left an orphan at 10, Henry at his own request was apprenticed to Elijah Sudduth, Probably an Uncle, and Jonathan Armstrong, Blacksmiths, and this was the trade he followed all his active life. Sudduth seems to have had a prosperous business whereever he lived, and, besides his trade, he was also a farmer and an investor in real estate with two thousand acres of land and lots in various townsites at the time of his death. In 1850 he owned eight slaves. In 1838 he was an associate commissioner of the county land board, and from 1848 until 1852 he served as justice of pease for Precinct no. 4 in Newton County.
- Sudduth Married Sally Golden, a Georgina by birth ca. 1811, they were the parents of 5 children - Nancy, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Emily, and John.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm). (Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., n.d.).
Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc.
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