Marshall Keith

• General Notes
  • Will of Marshall KEITH, recorded Columbia County, Georgia June 6, 1842
    
    (from Georgia Pioneers, Vol. 7 from Genealogylibrary.com)
    
    To James Jones (alias Keith) and John Jones (alias Keith), of Alabama, all of my property in Ala., both real and personal, including the crops; also my negroes now in Georgia, to-wit: Zach, Martha, Jack, Agg, and all Agg's children, Dilcy and her child, Jim.
    
    
    
    To Mary Jones, wife of William Jones of Augusta, Gin-maker, the land I purchased from John Wood, Shackelford and McNair, also 80 acres bought of McKinney. Also to said Mary, negroes Melinda and her children, Sytha and her children, Edmund, Sam and Matilda, also Ingraham.
    
    
    
    To Judith Jones (alias Keith), all land not otherwise devised on west side of Fury's Ferry Road; also negroes Jeffrey, Violet and her child,
    
    Sawney; Eliza and her child Billy; Daffney and her child, Jane and her child, also John, Nelson, Esther, Alick, Isabella and Athena.
    
    
    
    My servant, Ishmael, to be freed, and property put in trust: 150 shares in Mechanic's Bank in Augusta. For Ishmael and his sisters, Minny and Elizabeth, as a home, all my land on the east side of Fury's Ferry Road, also negroes Hanibal, Delila, and their two children, Ned and George. Also blacksmith's tools, choice of one cart and oxen, choice of a horse, choice of three mules, also corn, fodder and pork for a year. Also cattle, hogs and sheep, as the executors shall deem necessary, and one bed and furniture, as well as the following extra negroes, Bowling, Robert and Greene, children of Yellow Agg.
    
    
    
    In trust for Minny, sister of Ishmael, 100 shares of Mechanic's Bank stock, negro girls named Blanche and Minta, one bed and furniture, one spinning-wheel and loom.
    
    
    
    In trust for Elizabeth, 15 shares of Mechanic's Bank stock.
    
    
    
    To my brother, Isham, in trust for sister Susan, 100 shares Insurance and Trust Co., of Augusta; in trust with William Jones, 15 shares Mechanic's Bank stock, for use of James Jones.
    
    
    
    To my nephew, Tarleton Keith, 15 shares stock in lieu of his right of 1/3 of a 1/5 interest in my mother's dower. To niece Judith Hiblien, 25 shares of stock, to niece Harriet Vance, 25 shares of stock.
    
    
    
    To the Secretary of the Colonization Society, the following negroes: Alfred, Daniel and Thornton, for the purpose of being sent to Liberia, also 5 shares of stock for each, the proceeds to be paid to them or their survivors upon reaching Liberia. Should they refuse to go, stock to revert to Ishmael and Mr. Jones, of Augusta.
    
    
    
    To my servant Nancy, in trust with my Excrs., for her own use, stock, furniture, etc., her maintenance to be charged to Ishmael.
    
    
    
    Other bequests of furniture, stock and plantation lands, equally to Judith Jones and Mary Jones of Augusta. (Stipulation: The freed servants are NOT to live in or WITHIN THREE MILES of any town or village in Georgia or South Carolina. s/ MARSHALL KEITH