General Notes

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JOSIAH TODD moved out of NC into SC at the close of the 1700s.  Later
when Alabama began to open to settlement, Josiah resettled to what is now
Lowndes County (originally, his site was part of Dallas County). Josiah
had a total of 15 children, and many of them farmed the region around the
community of Collirene.
"The Todd family settled near Collirene about 1818, for in that year
Josiah Todd gave land to the Baptists of the community to build a
church.  The Todds came from North Carolina.  Their family connections
include the Odoms, Gramblins, Grices, Thomases, Armours and Hintons." (1)
(1) Russell, Mildred Brewer, Lowndes Court House: A Chronicle of
Hayneville, an Alabama Black Belt Village; 1820 - 1900, (Montgomery, AL:
The Paragon Press, 1951), p. 4.
CENSUS YR:  1850  STATE or TERRITORY:  AL  COUNTY:  Lowndes  DIVISION:
the Lowndes District  REEL NO:  M432-8  PAGE NO:  119B REFERENCE:
enumerated by me, on the 16 day of Oct 1850.  S L Pruitt.
LN  HN  FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX  RACE  OCCUP. VAL. BIRTHPLACE
42 262  262 Todd           Jonah            71   M         Planter 3,300 
N Carolina
1   262  262 Todd           Zylphia         50   F S Carolina
2   262  262 Todd           John             21   M         Planter Ala
3   262  262 Todd           Hardy           19   M         Planter Ala
4   262  262 Todd           Lucinda        17   F Ala            5   262 
262 Todd           Marisia 14   F                                        
Ala REMARKS:  Name may be Marina
6   263  263 Todd           Thomas         23   M         Planter Ala
7   263  263 Todd           Francis          21   F Ala
8   264  264 Todd           Willis            22   M         Planter Ala
In the 1850 Slave Census of Lowndes Co., AL it states that Josiah Todd
owned 11 slaves.
Will of Josiah Todd
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book B, pages 291-292
The State of Alabama}   In the name of God, Amen!
Lowndes County      }   I, Josiah Todd, of the said county and state
Do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner and  form
following (viz.) First – it is my desire that all my funeral expenses and
all my just debts shall be paid out of any money that may be in hand or
debt due me at my death if that shall be sufficient  and if not, the
balance to be paid out of the proceeds of the crop  then on hand if there
shall be a crop on hand, and if not then that there be of my personal
property enough sold to pay my just debts.
2nd  I desire that my wife, Zilpha Todd, have all the household and
kitchen furniture to be her own in fee simple to dispose of as she  may
think proper including all the beds, bedstead furniture and other
furniture in the house and that she have three Negro slaves, namely
Annie, a girl aged 22 years, Robin, a Negro man age about 27 years, and
Bill, a Negro man aged about 24 years, to be in her possession during her
natural life and while she remains a widow, but if she shall marry or
died, then the above three Negroes to be divided as
the other slaves are divided herein after named.
3rd  I desire that all the rest of my slaves shall be divided among the
following children if the same can be done to satisfaction and if they
cannot be divided equally then to be sold and the money equally divided
share and share between Elizabeth Grice, Thomas Todd, Willis Todd, Mary
Armer, Nancy Gramblin, Altha Todd, John Todd, Hardy Todd, Lucinda Todd &
Malinda Todd being all the children which my wife, Zilpha Todd, has
living, and if I shall increase my stock of slaves either by raising or
buying or in any other way it is intended that
they be taken in the above division.
4th  I desire that all my property of every description that is not
otherwise provided for herein shall be sold and equally divided among all
my children, that is, to my including my children of my first with them
of my last wife, reserving to my wife, Zilpha