Jones Broach
Jones Broach Descendants
Jones Broach Descendants
Raymond Charles Broach
by Raymond Charles Broach
(the following is verbatim as recorded by Raymond Charles Broach sometime in the 1960s. The only change has been to break the text into paragraphs in order to make it easier to read. (editor - Murry L. Broach, January 1998)
Mrs. J.A. Morris, Jr., of
Dallas, Texas has obtained a photostatic copy of Jones Broach's
will and sent it to me. It follows as accurately as I have been
able to read it, since the handwriting had faded badly in sections.
In making this copy, errors
and mistakes in spelling and grammar will be taken exactly as
written.
The fact that Jones signed
his name with an X does not necessarily mean that he was illiterate.
The will was signed three days before his death and his hand
may have been held because of his weakened physical condition.
Following is the transcript of the will:
Know all men by these presents
that I, Jones Broach, of the County of Clarke and State of Georgia,
I am about to make my last will and testament. I do leave to
my wife Elizabeth Broach, and Charles Broach my last executors.
I do wish my executors to
sell my crops and pay my just debts as far as the money settles
them and for to sell such property as they think proper to pay
the balance of my just debts.
I am now in my proper mind
to recollect that I have gave to my daughter Mary Glen when she
left me one hundred and one dollars. Also to my son George Broach
one hundred thirty seven dollars and a certain tract of land
where he now lives at 300-0-0.
Also gave to my son Charles
Broach $l69-50-0. I also gave to my son William Broach $169-0-0.
Also I have gave my son Berry Broach $100.
I wish my executors to give
my son Berry Broach one saddle and bridle and one year schooling
to be paid out of my estate and one suit of clothes. I will to
Elizabeth Broach to have out of my estate when she marries and
leaves her mother 100 dollars.
I leave to my daughter Averilla
100 dollars and one year of schooling to be paid out of my estate
in property at cash price when she leaves her mother.
I do leave to my lawfull
wife Elizabeth Broach all my Negroes and my land my horses and
stock of all kinds house hold furniture during her life or widowhood
and then to be equally divided among my lawfull airs according
to what they have been paid out of my estate and my wife is to
support her children out of my estate as long as they live with
her.
So I conclude my last will
and testament given under my hand and seal this 3rd day of January
1809.
his
Jones X Broach SEAL
mark
Witnesses:
B. Haynie
Benjamin Bedell
Miles P. Barnett
(This will was recorded in Book A, folio 28, on March 13, 1809.
Superior Court Records, Clarke County, Georgia.)
REPORT BY CHARLES BROACH TO THE COURT ON SALES MADE OF ITEMS IN THE ESTATE OF HIS FATHER, JONES BROACH. DECEMBER 6, 1811.
James Farmer: 1 lot of hoes and axes; 1 lot of hogs, second choice. 5 barrels of corn, 5 ditto, 5 barrels corn.
Charles Broach: 1 log chain, 1 lot of sundries, 1 bridle and 2 ploughs, 2 sleighs and harnesses, I pair steel yards, sundry earthenware, pair smoothing irons, 1 looking glass, 1 reel, 1 gratter and lot of barrels.
Littleberry Broach: 1 lot of sundries, 1 side of leather, 2 spiders 1 sieve, 1 decanter and tumbler, 1 lot of pens.
John Martendale: 1 cutting knife, 1 side leather, 2 sheeps, 3rd choice.
William Broach: 2 pair chains and hames, I lot of hoes and ploughs, 1 pot hanger, 1 oven, 1 lot of poles, 1 table and chairs, 1 lot of crockery ware, 1 lot of knives, 1 bowl, 1 sugar cannister, 1 chest, 1 set of glasses and 1 bed, 1 sow and six pigs, 1 lot of hogs first choice, 1 sorrell mare, 1 brindle cow and calf, 1 sorrell mare, 1 lot of hogs.
George Broach: 1 rawhide, 1 loom, 1 large pot, 1 lot bowls, 1 set spoons, 2 barrels, 1 bushel of salt, 1 lot of hogs 1st choice, 2 sheep 1st choice, 2 sheep 2nd choice.
William Copeland: 1 pot hanger.
John H.Lowe: 1 hogshead.
John Robinson: 1 wheel, 1 wheel, 1 jugg, 1 lot hogs 3rd choice, 1 lot hogs 4th choice.
Samuel Swinney: 1 iron pott, 1 fat tub, 1 lot sundries.
Tod Alford: 1 lot pewter, 1 pewter basin, 1 basin and spoons, 1 lot of plates.
John Maxwell: 2 basins, 1 bottle turpentine, 2 empty barrels 1 red heifer.
John Adams: 1 large jar.
Peyton Smith: 1 sow and pigs, 14 shoats, 1 gray filly.
William Clark: 500 lbs. fodder.
Harrison White: 1 cupboard.
George Pascel: 1 grindstone.
Robert Gilham: 1 flax wheel.
Joseph Brown: 5 barrels corn.
Josiah Allen: 1 bay horse.
G.B. Jack: 2 lots fodder, 500 lbs. each
Sam Stewart: 1 sorrel colt
Nathan Barnett: 1 red cow.
William Cole: 1 red head cow, 1 cow, 1 bridle, 1 bull.
Letter of dismissal as executor
of the estate of Jones Broach was granted to Charles Broach at
the January 1817 term of Superior Court, Clarke County, Georgia.
The Descendants of Jones Broach
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