of
James Bailey
of body and perfect mind & memory thanks be to God. Calling unto mind the mortality of my
body, knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will &
Testament and as touching such worldly estate whereas it has pleased God to bless me with in
this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
FIRST, I give and bequeath to LITTISHA, my beloved wife, the plantation and tract of land
whereon I now reside containing two hundred & fifty acres, more or less, being what is the west
side of my spring branch and a new line up to a corner white oak being Azariah Bailey Line,
together with all my personal estate during her natural life and at her decease, I give the above
mentioned plantation and tract of land to my son, JOHN GUINN BAILEY, to his assigns and his
heirs forever.
Also, I give to my son, JAMES BAILEY, a tract of land containing two hundred acres
according to a grant the same lying on the west side of the above mentioned tract, to him and his
heirs forever, and at the decease of my wife, I leave the whole of my personal estate to be sold
and equally divided between all my children to-wit: AZARIAH JAMES BAILEY; JOSEPH BAILEY;
JOHN GUINN BAILEY; MARY BOSTICK; LITTISHA STREET; and ANN JONES.
I, likewise constitute, make and ordain AZARIAH BAILEY and JOHN GUINN BAILEY,
executors of this my last Will and Testament, and revoking all former one’s. In Witness whereof,
I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirty-first day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.
Signed, sealed, published,
pronounced & declared by
the said JAMES BAILEY James Bailey
as his last Will & Testament
in the presence of us.
Richard Heard
Jesse Bailey
William Heard
Georgia
Wilkes County
Personally appeared before me, Richard Heard & William Heard, two of the subscribing
witnesses to the within Will and being duly sworn saith that they saw JAMES BAILEY sign, seal,
publish and declare the within instrument of writing to be his last Will and Testament and that at
the time of his so doing, he was of sound mind and memory.
Sworn to before me his 1st August, 1797. Richard Heard
William Heard
